Hunt Slonem Bunny Magenta / Oil on wood / signed / unique

Year: 2022
Format: 20,3 x 25,4 cm / 7.9 x 9.8 inch
Material: Wood
Method: Oil painting
Edition: unique
Other: signed verso, framed

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Hunt Slonem Bunny Magenta / Oil on wood / signed / unique

Year: 2022
Format: 20,3 x 25,4 cm / 7.9 x 9.8 inch
Material: Wood
Method: Oil painting
Edition: unique
Other: signed verso, framed

Hunt Slonem is best known for his neo-expressionist paintings of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds. The colorful paintings are usually set in extraordinary frames that complete the artwork.

Hunt Slonem Bunny Magenta

Year: 2022
Format: 20,3 x 25,4 cm / 7.9 x 9.8 inch
Material: Wood
Method: Oil painting
Edition: unique
Other: signed verso, framed

Hunt Slonem Bunnies.

Magenta is a rabbit painting by artist Hunt Slonem. Hunt Slonem was born in Maine, USA in 1951. His father was in the Navy, so the family moved often. Slonem has lived in Hawaii, Virginia, Connecticut, California, Washington State and Nicaragua, among other places.

He graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans with a Bachelor of Arts degree in painting and Art History. He also took couses at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, where he studied and met influential artists from the New York area, such as Louise Nevelson, Alex Katz, Alice Neel, Richard Estes, Jack Levine and Al Held. Slonem refers to Alex Katz in particular as a big mentor and friend.

Bunnies by Hunt Slonem – Repetition as a homage to Warhol

Another important artist for Slonem is Andy Warhol. He says that the repetition in Warhol’s work had a lasting influence on him, especially the Campbell’s soup cans and the portrait of Marilyn Monroe. With repeating a motif in his work again and again, such as the bunny, Slonem makes a reference to Andy Warhol. It’s like with prayer, so the artist. For him, repetition is a form of worship. In 1973 Slonem moved to New York, where he has lived and worked ever since.

His flair and admiration for far-flung destinations have been an integral part of his life since childhood. His father’s position as a Navy officer meant that the family moved often during Hunt’s formative years, including extended stays in Hawaii, California and Connecticut. As a young adult, he continued to seek travel opportunities and studied abroad in Nicaragua and Mexico; these eye-opening experiences gave him an appreciation for tropical landscapes that would influence his unique style. After earning a degree in painting and art history from Tulane University in New Orleans, Slonem lived in Manhattan for several years in the early 1970s. It was not until Janet Fish made her studio available to him for the summer of 1975 that Slonem was able to fully immerse himself in his work. His work was exhibited throughout New York, furthering his reputation and catapulting him into the city’s explosive contemporary art scene. He received several prestigious grants, including from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation in Montreal, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Cultural Counsel Foundation’s Artist Project, for which he painted an 80-foot mural of the World Trade Center in the late 1970s. He was also introduced to the Marlborough Gallery, which would represent him for 18 years. As Slonem refined his aesthetic, his work began to appear in unique, contextual spaces. By 1995, he completed a huge, six-by-eight-foot mural of birds that spans the walls of the Bryant Park Grill restaurant in New York City. His work for charity has led to dozens of partnerships, including a wallpaper of his famous bunnies specially designed with Lee Jofa for the Ronald McDonald House in Long Island. Slonem continues to draw strong inspiration from history and makes tangible connections to the past through his art. His popular portraits of Abraham Lincoln make the historical figure a pop art icon, and he is currently working on a 10-foot-tall bronze sculpture of French explorer Robert De La Salle to be put on public display in Louisiana. Slonem’s most ambitious project, however, is his mission to save America’s often forgotten historic buildings. Recognizing that too many of the country’s architectural gems have fallen into disrepair, Slonem was drawn to these national landmarks, inspired by their great age and beauty. His accomplishments include the restoration of Cordt’s Mansion in Kingston, New York, Lakeside and Albania plantations in Louisiana, and the Scranton Armory and Charles Sumner Woolworth mansion in Scranton, Pennsylvania. His sixth and most recent project is Belle Terre, a storied estate in South Kortright, New York.

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Hunt Slonem Bunny Magenta / Oil on wood / signed / unique


Year: 2022
Format: 20,3 x 25,4 cm / 7.9 x 9.8 inch
Material:Wood
Method:Oil painting
Edition:unique
Other:signed verso, framed
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