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Stuart Shils    (American, 1954)

 Stuart Shils - A Villa Close to Montefalco (Paintings) h: 12 x w: 16 in / h: 30.5 x w: 40.6 cm
Stuart Shils
A Villa Close to Montefalco 2008
 
 Stuart Shils - Afternoon Light, Deep Summer, Looking Down from Montecastello (Paintings) h: 10.2 x w: 12.5 in / h: 25.9 x w: 31.8 cm
Stuart Shils
Afternoon Light, Deep Summer, Looking Down from Montecastello 2007
 
 Stuart Shils - Small House with Garage Door Open (Paintings) h: 12.8 x w: 11 in / h: 32.5 x w: 27.9 cm
Stuart Shils
Small House with Garage Door Open 2008
 
 Stuart Shils - Warehouse to the West Beyond Pieve Di Vescovo (Paintings) h: 12.4 x w: 16.2 in / h: 31.5 x w: 41.1 cm
Stuart Shils
Warehouse to the West Beyond Pieve Di Vescovo 2008
 
 Stuart Shils - White House, Porch and Shadow, Carpenter Lane (Paintings) h: 14.2 x w: 15.2 in / h: 36.1 x w: 38.6 cm
Stuart Shils
White House, Porch and Shadow, Carpenter Lane 2008
 
 

Biography
1954 Born, Philadelphia PA
1972 - 1974 Drew University, Madison, NJ
1974 - 1976 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1976 - 1977 Philadelphia College of Art, PA
1977 - 1982 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; BFA
Recipient of Cresson European Traveling Scholarship

Exhibitions
2005 “Between Perception & Invention: Three Generations of Figurative Artists,” The Gallery at Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH
2004 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY also 2000, 1999, 1997 (solo)
2003 Davis and Langdale Company, New York also 2001 (solo)
2003 Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA (solo)
2003 “EIRE/LAND,” McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
2002 “Imaginative Affinities: Echoes of Dickinson in Contemporary American Art,” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2002 “Works on Paper,” David and Langdale Company, New York, NY
2002 “Stuart Shils and Nem Hackett,” Etherington Fine Arts, Chillmark, MA
2002 “Kindred Spirits: The Landscapes of Eric Aho, Wolf Kahn and Stuart Shils,” Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT
2001 “Passages from Ballinglen,” List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
2001 “Works on Paper: Carol Anthony, Wolf Kahn and Stuart Shils,” Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT
2001 Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland (solo)
2001 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA also 2003 (solo)
2001 Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
1999 Barton Ryan Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
1999 Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA also 1997, 1995, 1994, 1993 (solo)
1999 “Irish Landscapes,” Callen McJunkin Gallery, Charleston, WV
1999 “New Vision of the Landscape,” Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
1999 “Beyond the Millennium: Artists Choose Artists,” Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT
1999 “Landscape & Inspiration: The Ballinglen Experience,” Glucksman Ireland House, New York
1999 “A-Way to Ireland,” McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH
1998 “Intimate Visions,” List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
1998 “Through the Heart of the City,” Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Sydne Bernard, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1997 “An Extended View: Landscapes by Philadelphia Artists,” Levy Gallery at Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
1997 “Current Perspectives on the Urban and Industrial Landscape,” The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, N.J.
1997 “Landscape as Abstraction,” James Graham and Sons, New York, NY
1995 Horwitch Newman Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
1995 Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA (solo)
1992 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)

Literature
2005 The Jerusalem Post, April 29, “Plein air, plain delights,” Gil Goldfine.
2005 The New Yorker, January 3
2004 The New York Sun, December 9, “Stuart Shils, Chasing the Sky,” Maureen Mullarkey.
2004 The Irish Times, August 25, “Retreating to the edge of the world,” Aidan Dunne, p. 11.
2002 Exhibition Catalog, EIRE/Ireland, edited by Vera Kreilkamp, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, pp. 109, 110, 217, 218
2002 The Irish Times, November 30, “The Rain Chaser,” Aidan Dunne, p. 55
2002 The Sunday Tribune, December 1, Visual Art, Marianne Hartigan, p. 4
2002 The Irish Examiner, November 22, “The Weatherman,” Alannah Hopkin
2002 Exhibition Catalog, November, Vera Ryan, “The Mayo Paintings,” Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2002 The Irish Times, August 31, Michael Vinney, “Artist Confrontations at the Rim of the World,” Another Life, 7.
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