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Jenness Cortez

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Jenness Cortez

From her rural Averill Park studio, nestled between the Berkshire and Catskill Mountains, painter Jenness Cortez has, since 1976, dedicated her creative energy to capturing the essence of the world around her. She is a realist in approach, but all her art, prints and posters have always been filtered through the heart. Born in Frankfort, Indiana, Jenness Cortez began her formal art studies at the age of sixteen under the guidance of noted Dutch painter, Antonius Raemaekers. Cortez has a solid fine arts background, having graduated from the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and studied at the Art Students League of New York.

Beginning in 1977, Jenness Cortez received international acclaim for her sporting art, prints and posters and her masterful depictions of the Saratoga racing tradition. Capturing the subtle complexities of the sporting scene takes more than the ability to render the painstaking likeness of a horse. It requires keen observation and a mastery of composition. Like George Stubbs and Frederic Remington, she is first and foremost, an excellent draftsman.

Today, in the tradition of the 19th century Hudson River School painters, Cortez's representations of the phenomenal world are sensitive, passionate and deeply moving. Regardless of subject, landscape, human or animal, the art, prints and posters of Jenness Cortez exhibit a mystical ability to capture the soul of her subjects and to communicate poetically the essence of the moment and the place. Cortez breathes the spirit of life into all she chooses to depict. Most recently, Cortez has broadened the scope of her subject matter to include the towns and villages of Europe. For those who cherish fond memories of a European vacation, or who hold a deep desire to visit, the new Cortez paintings depict the delights of another world. Her love of the quiet and the beautiful, combined with her respect for the underestimated power of our everyday thoughts and activities, lend a dimension of magic to these invitingly romantic scenes.

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