Joseph McGurl

         

Wind From the West , oil on canvas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gosnold, oil on canvas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cottages, oil on panel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the Dock, Menemsha, oil on panel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Off Naushon, oil on panel,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

West Wind, Boston Harbor , oil on canvas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bridge At Hadley , Oil on Canvas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marsh Grass, Squeteague

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edge of the Marsh
Oil on Panel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ribbons, oil on panel,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morning, Maine, oil on panel,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Onset, oil on panel,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joseph McGurl was born in 1958, in Needham, and raised in Quincy, Massachusetts. His first teacher and influence was his father, muralist, James McGurl.  As an apprentice to his father, he learned at an early age the importance of perspective, and problem solving.  McGurl's academic training was at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Massachusetts College of Art. He continued his studies in England and Italy.  He received classical training in chiaroscuro, anatomy, and life drawing from Boston School Painter, Robert Cormier.

Joseph McGurl has unquestionably become one of the most sought after, and influential, landscape artists currently painting in America. Interested in the mind's interpretation of the natural world, not the translation of a photo, McGurl begins his paintings as small studies on location and then relies on his memory to develop his larger studio pieces. In depending on his memory he is able to capture

the emotion and effect he feels from nature.  Always interested in the illusion of paint on surface, McGurl successfully suggests with his brush work a visual distance which engages us, the viewer, in the scenic illusion beyond the picture plane.

 

Joseph McGurl's paintings have been included in museum and commercial exhibitions from Boston and New York to San Francisco. He has had retrospective solo shows at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts, The Cahoon Museum of American Art, and the Saint Botolph Club of Boston. He has won the John Singleton Copley Award from the Copley Society of Boston; and the Grumbacher Gold Medallion from the Guild of Boston Artists. He has been featured in American Artist, American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur, Art Ideas, M. Stephen Doherty's book, Creative Oil Painting; in Driscoll and Skolnick, The Artist and the American Landscape; and in Harris and Lyon, Art of the State: Massachusetts. He has work in the current traveling Sea to Shining Sea exhibition (scheduled regionally for the Cape Cod Museum of Art, May – July 2007)