Contoso Art Gallery

Contoso Gallery of Fine Art

Opening hours
Monday – Friday 10 A.M. – 5 P.M.
Saturday 10 A.M. – 4 P.M.
Sunday 11 A.M. – 4 P.M.
Open on public holidays
Contoso Coffee Break
Enjoy a coffee and a muffin at the gallery coffee shop. Light lunches are also available. A great place to sit and discuss your favorite art pieces.
Art Book Shop
For all your art needs. Art Book Shop has in-store prints of all artworks currently on exhibit. A wide range of books from renaissance to cubism, the Art Book Shop has it all. Perhaps you’ll feel inspired. by the vast range of paints and brushes.

Featuring paintings by Van Gogh, Da Vinci, Picasso, and Contoso

Contoso Art Gallery
Washington

Phone: (425) 555-0187
Fax: (425) 555-0188
Email: l.baker@contoso.com

The
Great
Portraits
Exhibition
May 23 – June 1, 2003

World renowned artist, Lisa Baker, displays her unique style for capturing mood in this exhibition of portraits.
With over 25 artworks on display this is an exhibition not to be missed.

Featuring paintings by Van Gogh, Da Vinci, Picasso, and Contoso

Lisa Baker

Lisa Baker studied art in her home town of Melbourne, Australia.
Fascinated by the stories that are interwoven into the features of a face, Baker captures the true character hidden beneath the skin.
Her wide use of media including watercolor, conte crayon, graphic pen, oil, and charcoal are evident in this exhibition.
In a recent interview Baker stated that her family formed the inspiration for many of her pieces. This is particularly evident in the pencil sketch, The Eyes of an Angel.
“ To watch your children grow and develop a sense of character, a belief in themselves, an individual way of viewing the world, is the greatest inspiration an artist could ever hope for.”
Enjoy this opportunity to view her works here at the McKenzie Art Gallery.

Hindsight
Lisa Baker uses mixed media to create her portraits.

The eyes of an angel
May 2003
A pencil sketch.

Leonardo Da Vinci
Creator of the most well- known portrait to date, the Mona Lisa, Da Vinci is a genius. Not only was he a painter of incredible talent creating works including the Madonna and the last supper, but Da Vinci was also a designer, architect and inventor. It is with great honor that we include from the Louvre Art Gallery of Paris, the Mona Lisa.
Picasso
The key concept of Cubism is that the essence of objects can only be captured by showing it from multiple points of view simultaneously.
Picasso’s work would have to be one of the best examples of this type or artwork.
Trained in the traditional methods of art, Picasso broke away developing his own style. The deep pain over the death of his friend become apparent in Picasso’s “blue period”. This was followed by his “Rose period” in which the love he found in his soon-to-be-wife blossomed both in his life and on the pallet.

Dora Maar
November 1937

Vincent Van Gogh
"Vincent van Gogh was born near Brabant, the son of a minister. In 1869, he got a position at the art dealers, Goupil and Co. in The Hague, through his uncle, and worked with them until he was dismissed from the London office in 1873. He worked as a schoolmaster in England (1876), before training for the ministry at Amsterdam University (1877). After he failed to get a post in the Church, he went to live as an independent missionary among the Borinage miners. Van Gogh’s preferred medium was oil on canvas which at times he liberally applied using a palette knife. His expressive use of paint as illustrated in ‘Starry Night’ resulted in the uniquely recognizable trait of suggestive movement.

Featuring paintings by Van Gogh, Da Vinci, Picasso, and Contoso

Contoso Art Gallery
Washington

Phone: (425) 555-0187
Fax: (425) 555-0188
Email: l.baker@contoso.com