Joe Reno "Dantean Figures" Oil Painting Impressionist 1985 Dancing Tribal Canvas 232735674773

Description

A lovely impressionist oil painting by Joe Reno. Joe is active and lives in Washington State and is known for painting and murals. Signed along the lower right side of the canvas. Depicts a tribal scene of figures dancing in the nude. Titled "Dantean Figures". Dantean is defined as of or reminiscent of the poetry of Dante, especially in invoking his vision of hell in The Divine Comedy. Painted between November & December of 1985.



Biography from the Archives of askART




Joe Reno


Bio taken from the book "ThePacific Northwest Landscape - aPainted History"


Born 1943 Seattle Washington, Joe Reno, as a young artist worked in the mailroom at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City and took night classes at the ArtStudents League. Aside from this period in New York and military duty in Germany, both in the 1960's, Reno has been a life-long resident of Seattle, witha home in the Ballard neighborhood.



At the age of six, Joe completed his first mural in wax crayon, from floor to ceiling on a wall at home. Reno has said that his reason for being is to make art, and he spends nearly all his time at it, sometimes producing dozens of paintings a week and other times taking months to finish one.



"When you're painting," Reno has said, "it's a state of Ecstasy-like peanut butter."



EXHIBITIONS

Museum of Northwest Art - MONA;

Center On Contemporary Art - CoCA;

Whatcom Museum



A mural by Joe Reno mural was just completed at Ballard High School.

Condition

Good Vintage Condition

Dimensions

27.5" x 33.5" x 0.75"
Sans Frame - 24" x 30"
(L x W x H)