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"Rachel Stealing the Gods," 1997, oil on panel, 48 x 36 inches
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Dancer Painting

Warren Criswell

United States

Painting, Oil on Wood

Size: 5 W x 3.5 H x 0.3 D in

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The man reading has apparently closed his book and stepped into Circe's. This is one of the many paintings I made from sketches done at the club. I saw the dancers as the holy women from the ancient temples of the Goddess, the images of whom Rachel stole from her father and hid from her husband. (See additional image.) SMALL STUFF Most of the paintings in this collection are oil sketches I made from 1997 to 1999. They're on small pieces of plywood or copper, oil on acrylic grounds. The sketches look like a distinctly different style from my larger paintings - hastily brushed with too-large brushes, not much attention to detail, images in their embryonic stage. But actually, this is what most of my paintings look like in their early stages, the underpainting stage, before I get down to the glazing and scumbling and whatever it takes to finish them. But I like the raw look of these little guys and the strangely connected narratives they seem to be trying to tell, so I decided to hang them up on in this Saatchi Gallery wall. (Also, they're easier to ship than large oils.)

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Painting:Oil on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:5 W x 3.5 H x 0.3 D in

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"I was a loner as a kid, an only child, the kind that grow up to be terrorists, bank robbers or artists. I wasn't interested in terror but tried robbery, stole a watch in the third grade but got caught and took up art. They haven't caught me at that yet." (Warren Criswell) --- “I am saying that a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do, what you will find, or what you find will do to you.” (James Baldwin) --- Warren Criswell was born in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1936 and has lived in Arkansas with his wife Janet since their bus broke down there in 1978. Primarily a self-taught painter, Criswell is also a printmaker, sculptor and animator. He has had 41 solo exhibitions in the United States and one in Taiwan. His work has been included in 77 group exhibitions in New York, Atlanta, Washington DC, Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina, Germany and Taiwan, and is represented in the permanent collections of many institutions, including: The Arkansas Arts Center; the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina; The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR; the University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Capital Arts Center, Taipei, China; the University of Central Arkansas; Hendrix College; the Center for Arts & Science of SE Arkansas; and the Central Arkansas Library System, as well as in private and corporate collections in the United States, Europe and Asia. --- In 2021 he won the Arksnsas Governor's Award for Individual artist. In 1996 he was awarded a fellowship grant for painting and works on paper by the Mid-America Arts Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2003 an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant for painting and drawing by the Arkansas Arts Council. Warren Criswell is currently represented by M2 Gallery in Little Rock and Saatchi Art.

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