Judith Goldsmith The Planets Conch Shell Silk Scarf Hyper-Realist Still Life Oil Painting in Gold Frame

Judith Goldsmith (American, b 1965) hyper-realist, oil painting on canvas still life of a  pink conch shell, metallic gold ball, crystal ball, marble, and perhaps a partially obscurbed large marble orb, a deep red and gold silk scarf enveloping it all. Artwork in custom gold frame with linen liner measures 33" x 25". Artwork in excellent condition. Frame in good condition with scattered wear including scuff marks to lower left corner. Coordinating artwork shown in last photos is available in a separate listing.

Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1948, Judith Goldsmith showed early interest and talent in art. When she moved to New England, she attended the Boston University School for the Arts, receiving a BFA and an MFA in Painting. As a graduate student, she studied with David Aronson and Robert Gwathmey. During graduate school, she was awarded the Woods and Graf Georges Memorial Scholarships. Ms. Goldsmith attended the Skowhegan (ME) School of Painting and Sculpture, studying under George Grosz, Jack Levine, Reginald Pollack, Josef Levi, and Leonhard Anderson and Herbert Katzman.

She was awarded the Artists’ Resource Trust Fund Grant as well as a full scholarship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME; a National Scholastic Art Award Scholarship; and fellowships during her graduate study at Boston University School for the Arts and the Tanglewood Institute.

Goldsmith has exhibited widely in major museums and university galleries throughout the United States including: Phoenix Arts Gallery, Santa Fe; Galleria Marzocco, Pisa, Italy; Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; and Brenda Kroos, Gallery, Cleveland, OH. New York City exhibitions include: Kornblee Gallery, Bowery Gallery, Gallery Henoch, Joan Whalen Fine Art, and David Findlay Jr. Fine Art.

Her paintings are included in the following collections: Phoenix Museum of Art; University of Wisconsin-Gustman; MBNA Bank of America, Cleveland; The Cleveland Clinic; Progressive Corporation Collection, Sun Valley, ID; Hale and Dorr, Washington, D.C.; Bankers’ Trust Company, New York City, US West, Denver, CO; and Bank Boston, Boston, MA.

Her extensive teaching experience includes appointments as college art faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Regis College, Weston, MA. Publications include: The New York Times, The Philadelphia Enquirer, The Boston Globe, and other periodicals.

Art critic Robert Taylor (The Boston Globe, writes (June 10, 1990): “Judith Goldsmith’s work takes delight in celebrating the pleasure of sight itself. Her bright paintings juxtapose a sequence of opposites: light and shade, curves and angles, decorative fabrics and the hardness of a seashell. Her bright paintings juxtapose a sequence of opposites: light and shade, curves and angles, decorative fabrics and the hardness of a seashell. Her bright paintings juxtapose glass spheres, gauzy wrappings, shells, silver spheres, and crystal bowls...”