Joseph Sherly Sheppard (American,1930- ) Painting. Title - Elevated. Oil on artist board American Realist painting depicts a group of commuters waiting at an elevated railway station. The melancholy scene of isolation bears similarities to the Social Realism paintings of Edward Hopper. Signed lower right Sheppard. Painting measures 16 inches high, 20 inches wide. Frame measures 23.5 inches high, 27 inches wide. Grand Central Art Galleries NY label titled Elevated and signed Sheppard, Joseph. Price $500. In good condition.

From Askart.com: Focusing on the human form, Joseph Sheppard (1930- ) has created paintings and sculptures in the figurative realist tradition. He has studios in Baltimore, Maryland, and Pietrasanta, Italy. He studied with Jacques Moroger and Reginald Marsh and closely read the anatomical writings of Leonardo DaVinci and 14th-century physician, Andreas Vesalius. In Sheppard's genre and figure works, many of the figures seem off balance and twisted in their poses, giving his paintings a sense of motion as though the figures are interacting with each other. His canvases are filled with an endless parade of dancers, acrobats, and athletes. Sheppard works quickly, painting both in thin transparent glazes and in impasto. Regarded as a role model for figurative realists,'' Sheppard stated: I believe that technical skills is an important element in art and that the figure is not only a subject but the most elevated form of art.

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