Life As Art Paintings by Gregory Gillespie and Frances Cohen Gillespie

"Gregory and Frances Gillespie emerge, in this first catalogue (Fogg Art Museum) on their combined works, as among the foremost 20th-century American realists. From the time they married in New York in 1959, when both were art students, through their years of marriage and afterwards, their work expressed an unparalleled commitment to art modeled on the passion of the Abstract Expressionists. Fran Gillespie's powerful, large-scale flower paintings, like Gregory Gillespie's mysterious, probing self-portraits, were inspired by Flemish and Italian Renaissance artists and contain layers of symbolic imagery."Stebbins, Theodore E. is the author of 'Life As Art Paintings by Gregory Gillespie and Frances Cohen Gillespie' with ISBN 9781891771293 and ISBN 1891771299.