at the Lyme Academy of Fine Art. Awarded the prestigious Stobart
Painting Fellowship for 1993, Reeve traveled to Italy to paint
the environs of Rome and the hillsides of Tuscany. The fellowship year
culminated in a successful first solo show. Travel has remained
important, with painting trips to the Badlands of South Dakota,
the Oregon coast, and the high desert canyons of New Mexico, as well
as numerous excursions throughout all six New England states,
Upstate New York and Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Reeve has participated in numerous group shows throughout
Connecticut, as well as in Newport, Boston and New York City. She
has exhibited two solo shows at the Premiere Etage Gallery in Newport,
RI. She has received awards for portrait paintings each of the last two
years from the Brush and Palette Club of New Haven. A major
highlight in her career was a commission from Yale University to paint
its first Chinese student. The Chinese Ambassador to the United States
and numerous diplomats attended the unveiling of the portrait at the
residence of Yale's president. PBS as well as the Chinese media covered
the event.
Reeve continues to be inspired by the works of American painters, most
notably Robert Henri, the influential mentor to Bellows, Hopper, Sloan
and Rockwell Kent. While living in New Haven, Reeve spent four years
independently studying Henri's personal archive, which is housed at
Yale's Beinecke Library. The result of those studies is most notable in
her strong independent sense of color.
Reeve has always maintained a painting studio to pursue her love of
painting the human figure and to execute numerous portrait
commissions. She spent two years painting in an old piano factory in
Ivoryton, Ct. before relocating to the factory building at Erector Square
in New Haven where she remained for seven years. This was followed
by a two-year residency in Collinsville, Connecticut, maintaining her
main studio in the historic Collins Company Axe Factory.
In 2005 Reeve relocated yet again to the Sullivan County Catskills,
settling with her family in Fremont Center. For the first
time she enjoys the freedom of having a studio space large enough to
pursue all her imagery located at her home. Reeve has found in her first
few plein aire painting excursions a remarkable relationship
between the surrounding hills and those she painted in Tuscany over a
decade ago.
Today, hundreds of Reeve's paintings may be found in corporate,
institutional and private
collections.
Oil on linen
22 x 30 "
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