is a self-representing artist who lives and works in the northwestern
hills of Connecticut, USA. He works in a wide range of painting media,
including oil, acrylic, watercolor, egg tempera and pastel. He is also
a prolific draftsman and an occasional sculptor. He offers his work for
sale exclusively online. Read his full biography
here.
Philip Gladstone's subjects
are as varied as his
media, with a distinct emphasis on the human figure, specifically his
highly personalized, emotionally evocative, and sometimes provocative
treatment of the male nude. See our gallery pages
to view a retrospective of paintings,drawings and sculpture by the
artist.
A
large selection of
Philip Gladstone's affordable Limited Edition
Reproductions, created personally
by the artist and individually hand-signed and numbered from editions
as small as ten, are available for immediate purchase.
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"Spring, So Clean"
2006
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"...This
drawing hit such a major chord with me that I gasped when I saw it. You
conveyed something so true to my own experience, yet I don't think I
would ever have conjured up a drawing that so accurately
reflects my own personal experience. You are unusually insightful --
and you're very brave to go to places in your mind, or memory, that
almost all people would be too terrified to go near. The more of your
work I see, the more impressive you are, both as a painter and a
person. I do consider the day I discovered your paintings to
be a major blessing in my life..."
-Excerpted
from an email to the artist from a collector
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"...Yours
is a descendant of art's better events, the kind of effort that says
something. Just look at "The Letter" and how naked the reader is as he
studies that thing, brow furrowed, body committed in a full squat to
the text he sees. In some dream of a moment that we've each pushed away
from consciousness, we've all been there at some time in our lives.
We've all seen this before; we've seen ourselves in this picture. But
now you've glimpsed it for us. And when you see something, it's for
keeps."
-From an
email to the
artist from producer/writer/critic Porter Anderson |
"...Volumes
[are] spoken via these naked figures. This drawing could never imply as
much if the subjects were clothed…you are at your best when
that narrative imagination taps into truth laden images about the
contemporary male psyche..."
-Excerpted
from an email to the
artist from a collector |
"...You
really are kicking ass... I'm amazed by your output, and the QUALITY of
your work. It's like you're on a roll, on a new plateau, and the stuff
pouring out of your brushes - in every medium, is on
fire..."
-From
an email to the artist from a fellow artist selling online
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"You are simply the most superb artist ever
to grace eBay!"
-From
an email to the artist from a fellow artist selling online
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"...He
is simply beautiful, compellingly beautiful, beautifully painted, he
changes with the light, the angle you are looking at him from and the
distance you are from him. He has life.
I can't tell you what this one means to me, talk about adding punch to
a collection..."
-Excerpted from an email
to the artist from a collector |
"...With
all sincerity of speech and poverty of prose, I think Grey Bather is
your finest ever... I am haunted by it... it
remains in my eyes with an ever more ghostly shade of
grandeur. The rendering is so powerful the canvas could not absorb
pigment and thus returns it to us tenfold."
-Excerpted
from an email to the
artist from a collector |
"...Philip Gladstone's work
reminds me of Andrew Wyeth. The somehow familiar open spaces invite you
to explore them on your own. The characters portrayed within [are]
completely known like friends and as unknown as strangers by the viewer
simultaneously. They seem quietly aware of your presence as if you were
a character in the painting's background watching, but not interfering.
Philip not only has beautiful, rich paintings that always leave me
wanting more - He speaks with a wonderful candor and depth about his
work..."
-Stephanie Greene, Curator, The Electronic Museum of Modern Art (eMOMA)
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