Art Show to Benefit Samaritan Hospice Patients and Families
Posted: March 14, 2012 Filed under: In the News | Tags: art, hospice, Samaritan Hospice Leave a comment »The Art of Alice Steer Wilson
Alice Steer Wilson (1927-2001) expressed her love for the people and places of Cape May through her brush. Reproductions of her watercolor paintings are on display at The Samaritan Inpatient Hospice Center through May 13, 2012. A portion of each sale will be donated to Samaritan patients and families.
On Jackson Street
From the late 1960s until 2001, Wilson happily painted from life; perched on a sidewalk, seated in her van, or in her last year, right from her porch. She was affectionately dubbed Mrs. Cape May by residents accustomed to seeing her paint. She mastered a variety of media and genres including oil and water color still life and portraits,charcoal portraits and the plein air landscapes for which she is renowned.Her artist’s passion began in her youth on an Ohio farm and was fed by childhood summers on the Long Island Sound.
Formerly trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, she was a dedicated teacher and lifelong student of her craft . Her work is collected internationally and has received numerous awards.
Autumn Triumph
Shortly after Alice died, a collector called to say he had discovered this message, handwritten and signed, on the back of this painting as he was having it re-framed:
“In case my paintings are ever “discovered” after I’m dead, this is my statement of what I was trying to do. I loved the appearance of things, light particularly, and I tried to copy it as accurately as I could, leaving out what was boring and exaggerating what I liked. Why I loved certain sights better than others I never understood, and neither do the people who are explaining it to you now.” – Signed, Alice Steer Wilson 1975, on the back of Windsor in September
You can visit the Inpatient Hospice Art Gallery located at Virtua Memorial Mt. Holly 7 days a week.
For more information or to purchase a reproduction, please contact Janice Wilson Stridick at 609-923-2733 or visit http://www.alicesteerwilson.com.
