Description
Original Art Description
“Factories on the Hudson”- J.L. Munro is a Hudson River landscape showing many factories along the river. Many boats and barges and a bridge connecting both sides of the river.
Prior Museum Exhibit
Exhibited at the Fenimore Art Museum – Cooperstown, N.Y.
August 31st – September 29th 2018
Dimensions
Image size is: 24 x 16
mixed media on masonite
Framed in a handsome wood frame – ready to hang F
JL. Munro short BIO
Contemporary artist J.L. Munro is an example of the best of self-taught American painters still working today. Her canvases are often described as “Paintings with a message, illustrating the lives of everyday people, many are waterside communities.” A bold sense of design and the use of amazing colors, this artist finishes each painting with a great attention to detail.
In more than 50 years of work, JL. Munro has achieved a great amount of recognition. Paintings by Munro are listed in many important public and private collections, including the Smithsonian Institution, Museum of American Folk Art, New York City, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y., also the American Art Museum, Bath, England, the Cahoon Museum of American Art, the Base Ball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, N.Y. and the Nantucket Whaling Museum, Nantucket, Mass. … is to list only a few.
JL. Munro was born in 1949, in Massachusetts, raised in N.Y.C., and her earliest American roots trace back to the first settlers of New England, and New Amsterdam (New York). Munro describes her canvases as “pictorial – history” or that they are paintings with a message – actually read by the viewer, like a page in a book. Munro’s favorite landscape subjects include, waterfront New England and New York. Sometimes it is a bustling city street, or a quiet river side village. Munro always works for realism, and carefully finishes each canvas to tell a story of Our American Heritage.
“We were married in 1968, and did not go to college after high school. We had three kids right away, and I had a lot of part-time jobs, but I never took a job I couldn’t quit. I’ve been a waitress, housekeeper, window washer, bakery clerk, flower designer, and hospital EKG technician. I always knew that I was really a painter, and that working for a little money at some other job was temporary, ’till I could get back to my canvases.” Today the Munro’s make their home in Otsego County, N.Y. – and enjoy their leisure times with family and 20 grandchildren.
Factories on the Hudson
