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James Wilson Rayen Art

American, 1935-2013

James Wilson Rayen was an award-winning young painter at this time whose work was included in the exhibition “Art Across America” organized by the Mead Corporation, which traveled the country in 1965–67. Rayen became a founding member of the studio art department at Wellesley College.

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Artist: James Wilson Rayen
"Untitled Pastel #10", landscape, spring, summer, green, yellow, pastel drawing
By James Wilson Rayen
Located in Natick, MA
James Wilson Rayen's 'Untitled Pastel #10' is from a series of studies of spring and summer rural landscapes.This piece, loose and impressionistic in technique, depicts a cluster of ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary James Wilson Rayen Art

Materials

Pastel, Paper

"Untitled Pastel #11", landscape, trees, spring, summer, green, pastel drawing
By James Wilson Rayen
Located in Natick, MA
James Wilson Rayen's 'Untitled Pastel #11' is a 15 x 15 inch pastel drawing on paper from a series of studies of spring and summer rural landscapes. This piece depicts three flowerin...
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Early 2000s Contemporary James Wilson Rayen Art

Materials

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"Untitled Pastel #7", landscape, fields, summer, green, pastel drawing
By James Wilson Rayen
Located in Natick, MA
James Wilson Rayen's 'Untitled Pastel #7' depicts open green fields with a loose, sketch-like quality in this 17 x 16.5 inch pastel on paper. From a series of studies of summer rural...
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Early 2000s Contemporary James Wilson Rayen Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Oil Pastel

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Flower #2 (Yellow Flower)
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James Wilson Rayen's oil painting "Flower #2 (Yellow Flower)" is a delicate and nuanced treatment of daffodils in a simple white vase. This oil painting on board, 14 x 11 x 0.75 inch...
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"Flower #3 (Yellow Flower)", James Wilson Rayen, oil painting, still life
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James Wilson Rayen's Flower #3 (Yellow Flower) is a delicate and nuanced treatment of daffodils in a simple white vase in oil paint on board. This intimately-sized oil painting, 14 x...
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Untitled Pastel #9
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James Wilson Rayen's 'Untitled Pastel #9' is a 15 x 15 inch pastel drawing on paper that depicts three flowering trees, crab apples, perhaps, along a country lane and is from a serie...
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James Wilson Rayen, Untitled Pastel #8 (2008), pastel on paper, 18 x 15"
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James Wilson Rayen's 'Untitled Pastel #4' is from a series of studies of summer rural landscapes. This piece depicts an empty road rolling through open green fields before disappeari...
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James Wilson Rayen's 'Untitled Landscape #2', is a delightful oil painting, in soft blues and greens, of open field, reaching toward and beyond a grove of trees. A recurrent theme of the artist's, one that offers limitless variations, is time of day, change of seasons. In Rayen's words, 'memory, after observation, becomes the driving force- one forgets, adds, subtracts, and all take energy and imagination, until the painting becomes the product, not the process.' Originally from Youngstown, Ohio, James Wilson Rayen was a graduate of Phillips Academy...
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Untitled Landscape #3
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James Wilson Rayen's 'Untitled Landscape #3', is a delightful oil painting, in soft blues and greens, of big sky, open field, and rolling hills in the distance. A recurrent theme of the artist's, one that offers limitless variations, is time of day, change of seasons. In Rayen's words, 'memory, after observation, becomes the driving force- one forgets, adds, subtracts, and all take energy and imagination, until the painting becomes the product, not the process.' Originally from Youngstown, Ohio, James Wilson Rayen was a graduate of Phillips Academy...
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