Ep 43: Elisabeth Condon Describes a Painting / "Tree of My Life" by Joseph Stella

Pep Talks for Artists

Our beloved guest host and artist, Elisabeth Condon, and her series "Elisabeth Condon Describes a Painting!" are back for a new installment! This time Elisabeth chose to describe Joseph Stella's oil on canvas painting "Tree of My Life" from 1919 that she saw at The Norton Museum in "Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature." The show is traveling next to the High Museum and to the Brandywine Museum. It was an honor to have Elisabeth's wild and wonderful way of looking at painting again on the pod.

See "Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature" in person/online:

• Norton Museum (since closed): https://tinyurl.com/yhv3paaw
• High Museum (Feb-May 2023): https://tinyurl.com/szewk7f8
• Brandywine Museum of Art (June-Sept 2023): https://tinyurl.com/yry6cry4
• Barbara Rose's 1997 Essay "Flora" on Joseph Stella: https://www.tfaoi.org/aa/7aa/7aa792.htm
• Joseph Stella works mentioned: "Tree of My Life," "The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted," "Brooklyn Bridge," "Battle of Lights, Coney Island"

More About Elisabeth Condon:

• Web: https://www.elisabethcondon.com/ | IG: @elisabethcondon
• Solo at Emerson Dorsch Gallery late 2023: https://emersondorsch.com/artist/elisabeth-condon/
• Florida Art in State Buildings/Univ of South Fla, May 2023: https://tinyurl.com/5n8ycr8m
• Painting at Freight & Volume Gallery: http://www.freightandvolume.com/

Artists Mentioned: Philip Guston, 4 Gentlemen of the Orchid, Bamboo, Chrysanthemum & Plum, Chinese Scroll Painting, Charles Burchfield, Odilon Redon, Paul Gauguin's "Vision and the Sermon," Hieronymus Bosch, Dziga Vertov's "Man with a Movie Camera," Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain," Agnes Pelton, Henri Rousseau's Paris paintings, Umberto Boccioni & the Italian Futurists, Precisionists: Sheeler, Demuth & Schamberg, Patrick Henry Bruce, Diego Velázquez, Rembrandt, William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley

Writers mentioned: Barbara Rose, Immanuel Kant, Gaston Bachelard's "Poetics of Space," Henri-Louis Bergson, Lewis Mumford, Walter Conrad Arensberg, Gertrude Stein, Maurice Tuchman

Eps mentioned: #38 (Elisabeth Condon Describes a Painting #1) and #15 (Review of "Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985")

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