Barbara Green
(with excerpts from "Shadows & Light" in American Artist, by Eunice Agar)
"In all of New York artist Barbara Green's paintings, there is a strong emphasis on value
contrasts and rich but subdued color applied to figural themes that are interpreted with a
classical restraint...The surprise is her use of pastel, a medium often associated with
brightly colored, noncontroversial subjects. In contrast, Green uses the medium to depict
such somber subjects as the Inquisition and the Holocaust, as well as powerful images of
boxers in training or in moments of repose and commissioned portraits and figures in
interiors.... Her charcoal drawings are remarkable for their richness and subtlety, and their
surface beauty is enhanced by her use of top-quality paper....
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Green obtained her undergraduate training at New York
University in New York City, where she earned a degree in art education in 1964... She then
spent two years at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she studied
printmaking with an emphasis on stone lithography and etching and received her M.F.A.
degree in 1974." Green has also studied at the National Academy of Design and the Arts
Students League of New York.
"Having reached a high level of maturity and achievement, her artwork is gaining serious
recognition. Green's Inquisition series was featured on public television, and her painting
and drawings of fightrers were shown on Television in a program called "Heroes", hosted by
Joe Namath, and on HBO in photo montages displayed during some of Tyson's
championship fights. Her work is in the collecitons of the Skirball Museum, which is
affilitated with Hebrew Union College, nd the Big Fights, Inc., both in New York City, as well
as in many private collections, including those of the late Cus d'Amato and Francisco
Moncion, a prominent New York City ballet dancer."
"In all of New York artist Barbara Green's paintings, there is a strong emphasis on value
contrasts and rich but subdued color applied to figural themes that are interpreted with a
classical restraint...The surprise is her use of pastel, a medium often associated with
brightly colored, noncontroversial subjects. In contrast, Green uses the medium to depict
such somber subjects as the Inquisition and the Holocaust, as well as powerful images of
boxers in training or in moments of repose and commissioned portraits and figures in
interiors.... Her charcoal drawings are remarkable for their richness and subtlety, and their
surface beauty is enhanced by her use of top-quality paper....
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Green obtained her undergraduate training at New York
University in New York City, where she earned a degree in art education in 1964... She then
spent two years at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she studied
printmaking with an emphasis on stone lithography and etching and received her M.F.A.
degree in 1974." Green has also studied at the National Academy of Design and the Arts
Students League of New York.
"Having reached a high level of maturity and achievement, her artwork is gaining serious
recognition. Green's Inquisition series was featured on public television, and her painting
and drawings of fightrers were shown on Television in a program called "Heroes", hosted by
Joe Namath, and on HBO in photo montages displayed during some of Tyson's
championship fights. Her work is in the collecitons of the Skirball Museum, which is
affilitated with Hebrew Union College, nd the Big Fights, Inc., both in New York City, as well
as in many private collections, including those of the late Cus d'Amato and Francisco
Moncion, a prominent New York City ballet dancer."
