John Ransom Phillips: Lives of Artists

The title of this John Ransom Phillips exhibition was borrowed from Giorgio Vasari’s 16^th-century book about the artists of his time. Ransom Phillips’s watercolors were not art-historical; rather, they were psychological and symbolic representations of artists. Combining abstraction, figuration, and his own poetic language written beneath each image, he distilled what he considered the essence of a particular artist’s work. These vividly colorful watercolors and oil paintings are lyrical, and often humorous.