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Jane Wooster
Scott
Biography
Jane Wooster Scott entered the millennium
prepared to establish new records. She concluded the last millennium named by
the Guinness Book of Records as the most reproduced artist in
America
, beating out runner-up Pablo Picasso for that
distinction. TIME magazine was quick to report the surprising news, pleasing her
countless collectors and admirers.
Today this versatile and productive artist stands alone as the finest painter of
Americana
on the planet.
Her works hang in museums, in public buildings and private homes in
Europe
,
Asia
and
South America
as well as in the
United States
. She has become legendary for her exceptional
scenes of
America
's celebrations and holidays, providing a trove
of visual lore unlike any other.
A dazzling coffee-table book of Scott's astonishing canvases continues to be a
bestseller.
Her paintings trace the cavalcade of the American experience. From her studio in
Sun Valley
,
Idaho
, Scott continues to discover new venues,
celebrated traditions and everyday pleasures and beauty in this land of
boundless joys and effervescent cultural diversity.
In the years ahead, this dedicated artist will scour the country's nooks and
crannies finding unusual, colorful panoramas of life, some typical, others rare
and some so commonplace they go unnoticed by the casual observer.
Wooster Scott has an unfailing eye for the charm and magnificence of her native
land and paints it in her own breathtaking style for the ages.
Youthful and energetic, and possessed with an aura of glamour, the personable
Wooster Scott is as much at home among celebrities as she is with the ordinary
folk who populate her paintings. Indeed, she has become a celebrity herself. She
mingles comfortably with scores of stars, political lights and sports figures at
her shows. She is in demand socially wherever she finds herself.
Her collectors include Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Marlon Brando, Charles Bronson, Steve Wynn, Merv Griffin and many, many other
prominent art-lovers.
Her enormously successful shows have been hosted by Sylvester Stallone, Dyan
Cannon, Kirk Douglas, Carol Burnett and the late actors Henry Fonda and Gene
Kelly.
Wooster Scott has embarked on a series of campus paintings, which include
University
of
Pennsylvania
and the
University
of
Southern California
. Several others are in the planning stages.
Scott is all for progress but laments the toll it takes on the landscapes she
paints so poignantly.
"It gets increasingly difficult to find the
United States
as I imagine it was a century ago–the barns,
stables, cottages and town halls. Water pumps and windmills, covered bridges and
one-room school houses are disappearing. But I intend to continue to seek out
the remaining treasures of our heritage and paint them for my own joy and for
people who share my love of country."
Jane Wooster Scott Visuals
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