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"Farmington Artists and Their Times"
John Hyland
''Portrait of Zsolti (At Liberation
Monument, Budapest),''
by John Hyland.
John Hyland, a native of the Forestville
section of Bristol and a frequent visitor to Farmington, is a painter in New
York City, specializing in portraits, landscapes and figure studies in oil. He
has shown his landscapes, seascapes and beach scenes in galleries in New York
and on Block Island and for the last few years has been focusing primarily on
portraits.
"Portrait of Alli," by John Hyland.
"Portrait of Jason," by John Hyland.
''Portrait of Zsolti in Leather Coat
With Fur Collar (Pécs, Hungary),''
by John Hyland.
Inspired by the works of late-19th- and
early-20th-century artists ranging from Antonio Mancini
and Ilya Repin to Eduoard Manet and Vincent Van Gogh to Charles Harold Davis,
Joaquin Sorolla and John Singer Sargent,
John is largely a self-taught painter, studying the work of masters like these,
as well as that of contemporary plein-air painters and portraitists.
"Northern Hungarian Rhapsody," by John Hyland.
A graduate of the College of the Holy Cross, where courses in drawing and
lithography helped to shape him early on, John recalls fondly the one painting class he ever took — a
six-week course at the Farmington Art Guild, in a studio near Miss Porter’s
School. "A short lesson indeed," he writes, "but a formative one, planting the
seed for years of continued study through books, museums, galleries and those godsends,
instructional videos and DVD's (thank you, Helen Van Wyk)."
John is also a journalist. Formerly a reporter and editor at The Hartford
Courant, where he covered towns ranging from Burlington and Plymouth to Windsor
Locks, New Britain and the Hartford school system, John is now an editor at The New York Times, where he is the managing editor of T: The New York
Times Style Magazine.
John lives with his cat, Rocco, in midtown Manhattan and travels frequently to
places like Forestville, where his mother and sister live, and Budapest, his new
home away from home. He welcomes commissions of both landscapes and portraits
and can be reached at hyland.ny@gmail.com.
"Block Island Bluffs," by John Hyland.
"North Light,
Block Island," by John Hyland.
''Clouds and Waterway Study," by John Hyland.
''Portrait of Zsolti (Light and Shadow,
New York),'' by John Hyland.
''Portrait of Zsolti With Architectural Column
(Angles and Lines, New York),''
by John Hyland.
''Portrait of Edith French (After John
Singer Sargent),'' by John Hyland.
''Head of a Capri Girl (After John
Singer Sargent)," by John Hyland.
''Waves and Rocks (Homage to Abraham Bogdanove),''
by John Hyland.
"Monhegan Bluffs, Block Island," by John Hyland.
''Still Life (Homage to Joaquin Sorolla),"
by John Hyland.
"Oceanside Study (Portsmouth, N.H.)," by John Hyland.
Paintings by John Hyland.
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