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Artist: Bart Lindstrom
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Subject: “Margaret”
Oil on canvas, 22 x 32 inches.
 his
exquisitely sensitive portrait was selected out of a host of others
for the cover illustration of a volume entitled A Collection
of Portraits, published in 2006 by Portrait Brokers of America.
It well deserves the honor, for it represents contemporary portraiture
at its best.
Above all, one must commend the extraordinary deftness and lightness
of touch with which the painting is executed. Every brushstroke
has been applied with a gossamer delicacy. The young subject’s
head and shoulders catches the light falling from our left; the
rest is suffused with a deliciously mellow reflected light. The
master touch of the painting is the point at which the direct and
reflected lights meet down the center of the face—this difficult
and challenging passage could not be done with more unerring authority.
But the magic of the painting lies beyond the suaveness of its
execution. There is a haunting tenderness in the mood expressed
by the beautiful young lady’s gesture and captured so surely
by a sensitive artist. The viewer is moved to speak in a whisper
to not break the tender moment captured here forever. J.H.S.
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