Frank's Solo Show Opens! Friday, March 2 in Groton, CT

The UConn's Avery Point Campus in Groton is the location for the 1st of 2 solo shows for Frank in the month of March!  The Alexey von Schlippe gallery will be showing choice pieces from Frank's Gabbro and Occupational Spirit collections.  


The wine and cheese reception is on Friday, March 2 at 6:00 - 8:00pm in the 19,000 square foot Gatsby-esque Branford House summer mansion by-the-sea, at the edge of the Long Island Sound. Also featured will be the music of the Bill Morrison & Kent Hewitt Jazz Duo.  For all the information, check out this link. The show will run from Feb 25-April 8th, 2012, just in case you cannot make it for the reception on March 2.


I will soon post about Frank's 2nd SOLO show in March, which will be held on March 23rd in Westport.  Details to follow!

The Guilder- from the Occupational Spirit Series

From the Gabbro series

Preview!

I'm assuming that we have ALL enjoyed a rather mild winter.  Though I may not be suffering and scraping ice off my windshield daily,  I still LOVE little reminders of mid summer... as in this view that Frank just completed from sketches painted on site last summer in PA.  There is something about those Ardrossan cows in the shade, surrounded by all that GREEN!  This painting is already hanging in our PA gallery, please let me know if you would like me to arrange a viewing for you, or anyone else.

Mid Summer Idyll (Ardrossan Cows)  26x38" original oil painting by Frank Bruckmann©

Too Big to put into Their Stockings...

Two Bruckmann paintings were given this Christmas from wives to their unsuspecting, and then, reportedly, very happy husbands.  This first one below has never been exhibited, but painted and then very quietly presented to a couple who live on the edge of this scene....she loved it and he received it Christmas morning. O joy!

The next painting almost went home with a few suitors, but was finally purchased by a woman whom I met many years ago, when I was a mother's helper, and she and her three young siblings were my charges!  All grown up with families and art collections of their own....in which we are very pleased to be included.

Field off Newtown Road 24x36" oil painting by Frank Bruckmann©

Hayfeeder 32x42"  oil painting by Frank Bruckmann©

Paintings SOLD at the Suzuki Music School of Westport

While Frank has buried himself in his studio this Fall, painting portraits, figures, and landscape commissions (evidence to come soon), these two paintings were busy hanging at the Art4Music Benefit for the Suzuki Music School of Westport.  Happily they are now hanging in new homes. The show,  curated by the lovely Heidi Harrington, is on display until July 2012, should you be in the Westport zone.

Cloud Study. 6x8"  Original oil painting by Frank Bruckmann©

Midnight Road. 16x20" original oil painting by Frank Bruckmann©

Love this one....it is part of a series Frank began during a few nights of brilliant moonlight on Monhegan...we would have a nice dinner together, couple glasses of wine...we'd get the kids to bed, and then Frank would pack up his easel and headlamp, to go out and paint...again. 

Painting Commission, finished and installed

Here's  the view of the road in front of our house from our winter season on Monhegan Island, ME that Frank painted for a client's mantle piece. The room it lives in has walls of grayish/tan wood, so this really stands out amidst the neutral tones of furniture and other decor.

"Snowy Road" 34 x 62. original oil painting by Frank Bruckmann.©

Paintings with New Homes in Pennsylvania

We had a fantastic turnout for Frank's Local Landscape Event, which was last Thursday night 7/28. Here are just a few of the paintings which found new homes, including the smallest, 6x8" to the largest, 50x60". Besides ogling over the paintings, we ate and drank and made merry. For those who joined us, thank you so much, and for those who couldn't quite get there, you were certainly missed. 

Hay Rolls on Driveway. 6x8" original oil painting by Frank Bruckmann. SOLD

Hay Study. 6x8". original oil painting by Frank Bruckmann. SOLD

Chanticleer. 12x16". original oil painting by Frank Bruckmann. SOLD

Along the Stream.  50x60" . original oil painting by Frank Bruckmann. SOLD

In Pennsylvania, painting from sun up to sundown!

If you are anywhere near Berwyn, PA, you should consider coming for 

Frank's one-night only Local Landscape Event.  He's been painting from the first light until the last light of day, trying to find shade in this unforgiving heat.  

Come join us for a look at Frank's show, and as always, a lovely dinner and wine will be waiting.....

Date:  Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Time:  5:30-9:00pm

New location:  403 Waynesbrooke Road, Berwyn, PA

RSVP:  203-444-3100

Hayfeeder in Autumn.  original oil painting by Frank Bruckmann , click to enlarge.