Ed Stitt: Fenway and Beyond

On View: February 6 – 28, 2015
Reception: Friday, February 6, 6 – 8pm

“With this most recent group of paintings I'm continuing to find beauty worth painting in my urban environment. Most of these paintings (1091 Boylston and 54 The Fenway) I've noticed long ago in my ambulations around the city during the everyday life of grocery shopping, hardware store excursions, etc. Eventually I see or find some archetypical view of this area and proceed to attempt to depict it with paint. During this round I kept noticing how nature breaks through, like how grass works its way through a grey concrete sidewalk. Trees, and trees in season, continue to show forth their beauty in parks and green areas within the urban environment... surprising rural and beautiful in their seasonal glory.

A number of these paintings began as a single canvas, but then as things grew and presented themselves I added other canvases on to present a larger view of the area (notably the two Fenway diptychs).” - Ed Stitt

54 The Fenway

2013, oil on canvas, 24x30"
SOLD

Fenway A.M.

2014, oil on canvas, 16x38"

Gnarled Tree, Sunny

2014, oil on canvas, 14x12"

Larz and the City

2014, oil on linen, 36x60"
SOLD

Oasis Afternoon

2012, oil on canvas, 30x70"
SOLD

Temple of Love

2012, oil on canvas, 12x24"
SOLD

Toby's Still Life

2013, oil on canvas, 24x30"

Boston from Larz, Rainy

2014, oil on panel, 8x8"
SOLD

Ed Stitt

Ed Stitt's agenda has consistently been to select and present for our delectation the moments of glory and beauty which reside in the mundane. Elements such as architectural detailing, intricate ironwork, or the play of light across a surface are carefully rendered by Stitt with vibrant color and constructed brushwork, building to moments of architectural epiphany.

His work is included in numerous corporate and private collections and has been shown in exhibitions reviewing realist and landscape painting at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and at the Boston Athenaeum.