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# David Brewster Fine Art

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- [2026 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2026-archive) - 2026 Paintings | Archive General
- [Chase Brexton Collection](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissioned-work/chase-brexton-collection) - Chase Brexton Collection Baltimore, MD Chase Brexton is a non-profit Health Center that provides care to more than 50,000 patients annually across Maryland. Founded in 1978 as a volunteer-run clinic responding to the needs of gay men during the early HIV/AIDS epidemic, it has grown into a cornerstone provider of LGBTQ+ healthcare while expanding its
- [Garden Nativity | St. Johns](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/residency/garden-nativity-st-johns) - Garden Nativity, 2025 installation at St. John’s Church, Northampton, MA Additional Images
- [2025 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2025-archive) - 2025 Paintings | Archive General
- [Catholic Charities / Mercy Medical](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissioned-work/catholic-charities-mercy-medical) - Catholic Charities / Mercy Medical Acquisitions 9 oil paintings acquired by Catholic Charities and by Mercy Medical in Baltimore, MD in the Fall of 2024. David Brewster, Past and Present, First Congregational, oil on Mi-Teintes, 47 x 32 inches, 2021-24. Acquired by Mercy Medical. Log Cabin, Summer Kitchen in Snow, oil on Gatorboard, 46.5 x
- [Villa San Giuliano Residency](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/residency/villa-san-giuliano-residency) - Villa San Giuliano Residency Villasmundo, Sicily | Spring 2024 During the Spring of 2024, I spent 4 weeks in residency at the mesmerizing Villa San Giuliano in South Eastern Sicily, drawing and painting full time as my dear collaborator Gregg Orifici worked in the gardens and wrote poetry inspired by the moment and place. Below
- [2024 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2024-archive) - 2024 Paintings | Archive General San Giuliano Residency Featured Full Suite
- [Maryland Center for History and Culture](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissioned-work/maryland-center-for-history-and-culture) - Structure + Perspective: David Brewster Explores Maryland’s Social Landscape October 12, 2017-February 2019 | Maryland Center for History and Culture Baltimore Sun Review, Dec 2017 “In 2017 the Maryland Center for History and Culture will present the work of artist David Brewster in a dynamic painting exhibit, featuring new works juxtaposed with
- [Water Scarcity Traveling Art Exhibition](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissioned-work/water-scarcity) - Colorado River Basin in Crisis, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 42 x 64 inches, 2015 Water Scarcity and the American West Traveling Art Exhibition Launched at the Global Environmental Markets and Finance Summit (GEMFS) in Denver, CO, July 2023. Sponsored by Walton Family Foundation, Earth Recovery Partners, Mighty Arrow Family Foundtion, and JT&A. Doomsday Glacier, Oil, spray
- [2023 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2023-archive) - 2023 Paintings | Archive General Water Scarcity
- [2022 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2022) - 2022 Paintings | Archive General Water Scarcity Scotland Drawings
- [Lion's Cave Capital](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissioned-work/lions-cave-capital) - Killcumin Broad Boat, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 26 x 40 inches, 2005 Lion’s Cave Capital The Eric & Patsi Sumner Collection | Chatham, New Jersey In 2007, Eric Sumner co-founded Lion’s Cave Capitol modeled on the very best aspects of a corporate research lab in Chatham, NJ. His vision to create a sympathetic place to work
- [David Brewster reviewed in the Boston Globe](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/david-brewster-reviewed-in-the-boston-globe) - David Brewster’s solo exhibit at the Nesto Gallery (Milton Academy; Milton, MA) was reviewed positively in the Boston Globe today (Thursday, October 11th, 2007). Check out page C9 of the Style & Arts section, or visit the review at The Boston Globe online. To view the Boston Globe’s calendar listing for David Brewster’s Nesto Gallery
- [David Brewster's NYC show opens today!](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/david-brewsters-nyc-show-opens-today) - It’s a very happy New Year indeed. David’s new show, “Irrepressible Storm,” opens today at the Walter Wickiser Gallery in the Chelsea art district of Manhattan. The show runs from today, January 4th, to January 31st, in the main gallery. This is a great opportunity to see David’s newest work, which has been developing boldly,
- [David Brewster’s “Irrepressible Storm” solo exhibit ad in ARTnews](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/david-brewsters-irrepressible-storm-solo-exhibit-ad-in-artnews) - Look for the half-page ad for David Brewster’s current solo exhibition, “Irrepressible Storm,” at the Walter Wickiser Gallery (New York City) on page 41 of the January 2008 edition of ARTnews. The advertisement features a full-color reproduction of the new 2007 painting Shasta and Swing II, oil on Mi-Tientes, 29″ x 39″, which is hanging
- [David Brewster solo show ends at Walter Wickiser Gallery](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/david-brewster-solo-show-ends-at-walter-wickiser-gallery) - David’s successful solo exhibition, “Irrepressible Storm,” ended on January 30th at the Walter Wickiser Gallery in Manhattan. However, David’s work will be back at the Walter Wickiser Gallery this summer for a group exhibition. The two-month-long show, a gallery invitational, will feature one piece from each included artist. For more information, please email David, or
- [early spring updates](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/early-spring-updates) - Spring is almost upon us, and as the snow begins to thaw ever so slightly, David is hard at work painting every day in rural Vermont after his busy semester sabbatical artist-in-residence appointment at Milton Academy. David will have some work in the upcoming MassArt Annual Benefit Art Auction – stop by their website for
- ["Panoramic Manger" wins Silvermine AoNE Best In Show](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/panoramic-manger-wins-silvermine-aone-best-in-show) - David Brewster’s painting “Panoramic Manger” won Best In Show at the 59th annual exhibition Art of the Northeast. Begun in 1949 as the New England Exhibition, Silvermine Guild Art Center’s annual juried competition has exhibited over 6,000 works of art by emerging and established artists throughout the nine northeast states. The 2008 distinguished juror was
- [David’s Summer Gallery Showings](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/davids-summer-gallery-showings) - Silvermine Guild Arts Center: 59th Annual Art of the Northeast This juried New Canaan, Connecticut show closes on June 6th; this is an excellent opportunity to see in person the painting that won Best In Show, David Brewster’s “Panoramic Manger”(2007, 32″x32”, oil on Mi-Tientes). Spheris Gallery: Great River Arts Institute (GRAI) Faculty Exhibition David Brewster
- [MANNA Benefit Auction TONIGHT in Philly!](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/manna-benefit-auction-tonight-in-philly) - There’s still time to attend A Show of Hands, the 18th anniversary benefit auction for MANNA, at Moore College of Art and Design! With an open bar, hors d’oeuvres, and a special guest appearance by TV personality and author Brini Maxwell, this event will simultaneously raise money and raise the roof. The painting that David
- [David Brewster featured in June/July 2008 issue of Art New England](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/david-brewster-featured-in-junejuly-2008-issue-of-art-new-england) - Author Pamela Mandell wrote an In The Studio article about David Brewster’s paintings for the current issue of Art New England. Read the full text of the article here. The article, “Haunted Places and Unsettling Landscapes,” features a photograph by C. Fox of David painting in his Halifax, Vermont studio, as well as a color
- [roof trusses](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/roof-trusses) - Woke up with a brewing chest cold, perhaps from transitioning from erratic temperatures (warm days, cold days). Made a move for Wayne Cromack’s pole barn construction. There was a massive crane lifting roof trusses and I had very little time to record the site. I was especially fascinated with the triangular stacks of trusses on
- [Autumn news from David Brewster: University Acquisitions, Juried Competitions, and the Updated Image Gallery](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/autumn-news-from-david-brewster-university-acquisitions-juried-competitions-and-the-updated-image-gallery) - The Autumn of 2008 has been a fruitful and productive time for David. He was recently commissioned by Johns Hopkins University to create a suite of paintings of historic Baltimore for their Carey Business School, slated to open in 2009. Benefactor and businessman William P. Carey has endowed W.P. Carey Schools of Business across the
- [Searsburg Wind Power Facility](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/searsburg-wind-power-facility) - Saturday the 29th of November was a bitter, cold day with low cloudcover, but the promise of a dramatic sunburst toward the end of the day. 3:15PM, the dogs and I decided to travel to Searsburg and investigate the controversial windmills. My instinct was right: with only a half hour of daylight left, the sun
- [sketching Laura Sumner](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/sketching-laura-sumner) - Yesterday, I arranged to draw Laura Sumner, the Halifax Town Clerk, a post she has held for forty years, when Margaret Crosier recommended her to the post back in 1967. We were both quite nervous, because our previous interactions had always been cordial and business-oriented, rather than creative and artistic. It was a very positive
- [sketching American Marriage](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/sketching-american-marriage) - Pale cold day….very pale blue-green sky covered in burnt rose clouds with violet bellies. Shuttled Gregg around before and after his LASIK surgery in Florence, MA, which I found very scary, and I suppose it will be a while before we can really judge the success. I am not sure I could handle such a
- [the Grippe and the Town Clerk](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/the-grippe-and-the-town-clerk) - I hope I am finally recovering from a forty-eight-hour flu which has gripped every aching corner of my body. All I could manage to do was to rest and sleep…and those delirious dreams. Art of Action: I had scheduled a portrait session with Laura Sumner for 4:00PM, which I mustered up the strength to execute.
- [American Marriage, third version](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/american-marriage-third-version) - Art of Action: Attempted my third version of American Marriage. Essentially, two sets of figures occupy the foreground; embracing nude women and the standing male wood splitters. It is a more fluid drawing, and the overall composition is better unified; however, I need to share the image with another to appreciate the effectiveness of the
- [Halifax's Explosive Winery](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/halifaxs-explosive-winery) - How does unregulated zoning in a small rural town influence my painting ideas regarding the Art of Action? It is a complex issue, dealing with a prospective business that is promising local people jobs in a poor town, but whose presence may leave potentially detrimental repercussions on the sacred rural character of Halifax and its
- [Devastating ice storm finds me sketching at McD’s](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/devastating-ice-storm-finds-me-sketching-at-mcds) - What a strange place to find myself, no? So, stirring in my sleep in the wee hours of the morning, I was quite accepting of the racket the ghosts were making in the north bedroom overhead. But as daylight approached, I realized that the noise was coming from the massive ice-coated limbs breaking off of
- [Nugget Mania](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/nugget-mania) - Although I’ve appreciated the phenomenal beauty resulting from an ice storm, after the fourth full day of being dislodged from my house and living out of my car (minus the sleeping, which is indoors), I have had moments of frustration. However, I was grateful for the warmth of the day, which enabled me to make
- [Recent Discovery of Awe-Inspiring American Paintings](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/recent-discovery-of-awe-inspiring-american-paintings) - I recently made a visit to the Book Mill in Montague, MA, where I discovered a variety of paintings by American artists, paintings that really struck me. Among them: – John Ferguson Weir, Forging The Shaft, at the Met – Thomas Pollack Anshutz, Iron Workers at Noontime – George Bellows, Pennsylvania Station Excavation, at Brooklyn
- [Bifurcation and Gainsborough](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/bifurcation-and-gainsborough) - I met with Reverend Thomas Brown at the rectory of St Michael’s Episcopal Church yesterday afternoon, where I made his portrait sketch. Even with the snow already coming down, we proceeded as planned. We spoke at great length about several topics that I have brewing for the Art of Action proposal. I actually brought one
- [Maryland Revisited: Clutter Literacy and Waltzing Grande Dames](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/maryland-revisited-clutter-literacy-and-waltzing-grande-dames) - Driving south to Maryland on Christmas Eve to visit family, I was struck visually by a spectrum of landmarks that I have known and passed along Interstate 95 for at least forty years. They include an isolated Victorian in New Haven; the orange, steeply, pitched rooftops of a closed HOJO’s in Connecticut; a grounded ferry
- [Tip Top Gathering and Partir Est Mourir un Peu](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/tip-top-gathering-and-partir-est-mourir-un-peu) - I was nervous about attending the Art of Action soirée at the Tip Top on Saturday evening among such a large group of artists who I knew mostly only by name. Not to mention the silent context shimmering with personal hopes and fears, spiced with an undercurrent of competition. But that is why I chose
- [Intellectual Indoors, or Windswept Treasure Outside?](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/intellectual-indoors-or-windswept-treasure-outside) - Now that the Art of Action written proposal has been submitted, I feel as if I am embarking upon a new chapter as far as refining all of my topic narratives for this project. It doesn’t really matter that ultimately my proposal may not be selected, but what does matter is that I bring to
- [Hind Paws Spinning & The Shih Tzus of Rubber Lips](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/hind-paws-spinning-the-shih-tzus-of-rubber-lips) - I remade (for the second time this week) a drawing for the Art of Action, Schools: Inside Roof Trusses. A figure is prominently featured in this composition, and it took me a while to recognize that I needed a more simplified and brighter sky to make that figure stand out. I want to achieve an
- [A Portrait of a Fifth-Generation Logging Brother](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/a-portrait-of-a-fifth-generation-logging-brother) - Aarin and Sean Dupuis are brothers from a family of fifth-generation loggers. For several months, they will be cutting trees below my house. Before sunrise, I see them drive by on their way to work, and sometimes even upon their return at night, before five o’clock. On Monday, I snow-shoed through four short rows of
- [Andrew Wyeth's Passing and N.C. Wyeth's Demijohn](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/andrew-wyeths-passing-n-c-wyeths-demijohn) - I was profoundly impacted when I learned of Andrew Wyeth’s passing at the end of last week. He was a major influence on my artistic interests, especially as a young boy. I suppose this was because I grew up in similar landscapes as his. He celebrated the antiquity and authenticity of a vanishing farmscape that
- [A Halifax Prima Donna and Theodore Dreiser's Lover](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/a-halifax-prima-donna-and-theodore-dreisers-lover) - Yesterday afternoon, I scheduled a portrait session with Dorothy Christie, who reluctantly agreed to sit for me. She kept insisting that there were others better suited for sketching as, she complained, “I am such an old hag.” She has large, wild black eyes and a striped thick mane of white hair. I loved the black
- [Harvey Milk Recruited Me](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/harvey-milk-recruited-me) - Harvey Milk had a huge influence on my development as a person and an artist (contemporary painting).
- [Immense AoA Gratitude](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/personal-musings/immense-aoa-gratitude) - I remade my proposal sketch for Marriage : American Split four times in preparation for last Fridays final oral presentation for AoA in Montpelier and it is still very much a work in progress. This theme was one of five other interrelated themes I proposed which also resulted in endless redoing . But for me the content based on
- [Forester Blue and Friendly Broom Head](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/art-of-action/forester-blue-and-friendly-broom-head) - I just spied a full white moon rising below my tall house. I turned the lights off so I could better appreciate its luminous company the most comforting I have had all day. My day ended with a pleasant walk with the doggies down the newly polished logging trail .The loggers have done an immaculate
- [pre 1990 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/pre-1990) - Pre 1990 Paintings | Archive 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1981-82 1980 1979 1978 1977 1966 – 1977 1964 – 1965
- [1990-1994](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/1990-1994) - Selected Work 1990–1994 1994 1993 Paintings 1993 Drawings 1992 1991 1990
- [1995-1999 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/1995-1999) - 1995–1999 Paintings | Archive 1999 1998 1997 1995-1996
- [2000-2004 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2000-2004) - 2000–2004 Paintings | Archive 2004 Ireland (2004) 2003 Deep Springs (2003) 2002 France 2001 2000
- [2005 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2005) - 2005 Paintings | Archive 2005 Ireland 2005 General
- [2006 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2006) - 2006 Paintings | Archive
- [2007 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2007) - 2007 Paintings | Archive 2007 Deep Springs 2007 Saint Albans Click here to see entire St. Albans suite 2007 Drawings
- [2008 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2008) - 2008 Paintings | Archive
- [2009 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2009) - 2009 Paintings | Archive Art of Action Suite 2009 General
- [2010 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2010) - 2010 Paintings | Archive Baltimore Fire Series 2010 General James Carey Suite Santiago Sketchbook
- [2011 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2011) - 2011 Paintings | Archive VT State Capital Suite Wharton Commission (2011 Drawings)
- [2012 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2012) - 2012 Paintings | Archive Wharton Commission (Paintings) 2012 General Van Pelt Commission Drawings of My Mother, Summer 2012 Maryland Club Commission final paintings preliminary drawings
- [2013 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2013) - 2013 Paintings | Archive Dick Turpin Series
- [Maryland Club Commission](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissioned-work/maryland-club-commission) - Maryland Club Commission Commission to be housed in the distinctive Maryland Club building, designed by Josias Pennington, opened in 1892, and recently restored after a 1995 fire. Final Painting Drawing Studies
- [2014 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2014) - 2014 Paintings | Archive Thailand Winter Painting Residency In winter 2014, I undertook a three month period of extensive travel and exploration around Thailand, particularly the environs of Bangkok. During this time I made drawings and watercolors observing the rich culture embodied by the Thai people and Buddhist religion.
- [2015 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2015) - 2015 Paintings | Archive
- [A Thousand Buildings Burned](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/maryland-historical-society-commission/a-thousand-buildings-burned) - A thousand buildings burned in February of 1904 when a great fire devastated the heart of Baltimore’s financial district. Pictorially this historic conflagration provoked my imagination in a major way and inspired me to depict several epic views of the fire in various stages of its spectacular destruction. In 2010, The W.P. Carey Foundation commissioned
- [200 YEAR OLD TIME CAPSULE AND HOT WATER TANK](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/maryland-historical-society-commission/200-year-old-time-capsule-and-hot-water-tank) - I was an ecstatic eleven year-old boy who had found my Spanish Main. On my knees I started clawing into a sloping embankment packed with a century-old dump. I dug through a layered earthen lasagna representative of Maryland's farming heritage.
- [2015 Windy Mowing Artist Residents](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/windy-mowing-residency/2015-windy-mowing-artist-residents) - I'm happy to announce the 5 Fellows who have been selected for a 2015 Windy Mowing Residency. Each Fellow will spend 2 weeks in Halifax, Vermont creating work in their respective field. This marks the 6th year of the program and I'm excited to see it grow and flourish.
- [2016 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2016) - 2016 Paintings | Archive Maryland Historical Society Richard Blue Commission
- [2017 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2017) - 2017 Paintings | Archive
- [Middlesex School](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissioned-work/middlesex-school) - Rachel Carson Music and Campus Center, Middlesex School, Concord, MA Irrespective of politics, Middlesex and its campus has evolved with, and reflects the exciting changes in human activity and interests. History has many authors, and buildings are an important narrative vehicle that invites not only a representational record of place and time but the opportunity
- [2018 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2018) - 2018 Paintings | Archive
- [2019 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2019) - 2019 Paintings | Archive
- [Price Waterhouse Coopers](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissioned-work/price-waterhouse-coopers) - Installation of 3 large paintings for newly renovated offices of Price Waterhouse Coopers in Boston, MA.
- [2020 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2020) - 2020 Paintings | Archive
- [Chaplain's Lake Rediscovered](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissioned-work/chaplains-lake-rediscovered) - Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered: An Exhibition of Vermont Artists celebrates the long and rich cultural heritage and natural history of Lake Champlain by showcasing thriving artistic talent around the Champlain Basin of Vermont. This juried show will open in Vermont before travelling to venues in New York City and Boston and returning to
- [Saint Albans](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissioned-work/saint-albans) - Saint Albans Department of Public Safety Commission Vermont Arts Council: Art in State Buildings Franklin County: Industry and Activity Awarded a commission from the Vermont Art in State Buildings Program to fabricate and install a suite of paintings based on the maple sugaring industry of Franklin County and the St. Alban’s emergency response teams. All
- [Van Pelt Library, UPenn](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissioned-work/van-pelt-library-upenn) - Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania Commission The formidable Anne & Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Furness and completed in 1890, is the subject of this suite of 5 commissioned paintings.
- [Brown Advisory Collection](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissioned-work/brown-advisory-collection) - Brown Advisory Collection In 2012, Baltimore-based investment company Brown Advisory acquired 6 paintings and drawings centered on the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904. Images from the Collection
- [Hands on the Split](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissioned-work/hands-on-the-split) - Art of Action: Hands on the Split Vermont’s Synthetic Beauty Living in a culture that has largely submitted its creative will up to popular film, television, DVDs, iPhones and facebook makes the unique language of painting especially important as a visceral means to provoke the imagination of its viewers. The Art of Action Project has
- [Vermont State House](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissioned-work/vermont-state-house) - Vermont State House Commission Grant awarded by the Vermont Community Foundation to create a suite entitled VERMONT STATE CAPITOL FIRE OF 1857 consisting of two paintings and two drawings depicting the great fire that destroyed the Vermont State Capitol in 1857, and to lead high school art students in Montpelier in creating their own variants
- [Johns Hopkins Carey Business School](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissioned-work/johns-hopkins-carey-business-school) - James Carey of Loudon 1751-1834 The Pastoral Surroundings of a Country Seat and Baltimore Town Commission for the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Series The W.P. Carey Foundation commissioned a suite of large oil paintings based on historic Baltimore during the life and times of James Carey (1751-1834) of Loudon, the great early Baltimore businessman
- [Wharton Business School](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissioned-work/wharton-business-school) - Joseph Wharton 1826–1909: Ironmaster, Innovator and Educator Commissioned by the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Created a suite of large-scale paintings and drawings to be permanently installed on the campus of the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, highlighting the life and career of Joseph Wharton, who founded the school in 1878. The commission
- [2021 Archive](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/archive/2021) - 2021 Paintings | Archive
- [Deep Springs College Collection](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissioned-work/deep-springs) - Deep Springs College Collection Teaching Residency 2003 and 2007 In the stark beauty of a remote valley the evening shadows of the Sierra Nevada Range lies tiny Deep Springs College. Here, some of the nation’s most promising college students prepare to become leaders in the service of humanity. Through a comprehensive educational program

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- [Home](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/) - Villa San Giuliano ResidencyVillasmundo, Sicily | Spring 2024More InfoRecent WorkWater Scarcity and the American WestColorado State University Spur | Denver, CO | July 19 - August 31, 2023More InfoWindy Mowing Artist Residency ProgramStructure and PerspectiveOct 12, 2017 - Mar 2019 | Maryland Center for History and Culturemore infoPainting Residency Thailand, Winter 2014Quixotic EncountersJuly 23 -
- [2026 Works](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/catalogue/2026-works) - 2026 Works Before Warming Temperatures, 11 x 14 inches, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 2026 inquire Arched Abode, 14 x 11 inches, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 2026 inquire Late Summer Bouquet 14 x 11 inches Oil on Mi-Teintes 2026 inquire Canyon Spire, 11 x 14 inches, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 2026 inquire Super Gas, Forsythia, 11 x 14 inches,
- [Bio](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/about/bio) - David Brewster My paintings synthesize a 200-year-old tradition of American Scene Painting into a new breaking point of abstraction in order to make sense of an increasingly bizarre and incongruous synthetic landscape. I wield a wide range of abstract mark making into a language that provides structure and perspective to order an overwhelming visual clutter.
- [2025 Works](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/catalogue/2025-works) - 2025 Works Canadian Fire Veils, 16 x 23 inches, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 2025 inquire Adamsville Crate in the Rain, 19 x 19 inches, Oil and graphite on found wooden crate lid, 2025 inquire Lilacs for Cezanne 29 x 20 inches Oil graphite and spray paint on Mi-Teintes 2025 inquire Poured Concrete, 12 x 19 inches,
- [Current & Upcoming Exhibits](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/current/current-upcoming-exhibits) - Current Exhibits & Events Upcoming Exhibits Past Exhibits Partly Collapsed (solo exhibit) April 20 – July 13, 2024 Opening Reception May 11, 4-6pm Gallery Blue Door Baltimore, MD gallerybluedoor.com The Landscape on Borrowed Time (solo exhibit) March 1 – April 13, 2024 Opening Reception March 1, 6-8pm Chase Young Gallery Boston, MA chaseyounggallery.com 18 Artists, 44
- [Exhibitions & Collections](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/about/exhibitions-collections) - Solo Exhibitions 2023 Colorado State University, Water Scarcity and the American West, Denver, CO 2021 Chase Young Gallery, Convergence, Boston, MA Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts, Recent Work, Brattleboro, VT 2018 Gross McCleaf Gallery, Rogue Waves, Philadelphia, PA Maryland Historical Society, Structure and Perspective, Baltimore, MD Chase Young Gallery, Urban Pastoral, Boston, MA
- [2017 Paintings](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/catalogue/2017-paintings) - Doomsday Glacier Selfie, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 96 x 48 inches, 2017 inquire 2017 Paintings Pregnant Man, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 47 x 64 inches, 2017 inquire American Sorrow, Chasing Trump’s Tornado, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 64 x 47 inches, 2017 inquire McD’s Play Land Arrest, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 47 x 64 inches, 2017 inquire Peale’s Triangle, Oil
- [Commissions](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/commissions) - Commissioned Work Chase Brexton Collection...Catholic Charities / Mercy Medical...Water Scarcity Traveling Art Exhibition...Lion’s Cave Capital...Maryland Center for History and Culture...Deep Springs College Collection...Wharton Business School...Johns Hopkins Carey Business School...Vermont State House...Hands on the Split...Brown Advisory Collection...Van Pelt Library, UPenn...Saint Albans...Chaplain’s Lake Rediscovered...Price Waterhouse Coopers...Middlesex School...Maryland Club Commission...
- [2024 Works](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/catalogue/2024-paintings) - 2024 Works Mt. Etna, Watercolor, graphite & oil pastel on paper, 2024 inquire Farmhouse Villasmundo, Watercolor, graphite & oil pastel on paper, 2024 inquire Villa Gallo, Graphite & oil pastel on paper, 2024 inquire The Working Man’s Palazzo Graphite & oil pastel on paper 2024 inquire Villa San Giuliano, Watercolor, graphite & oil pastel on
- [2012 Paintings](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/catalogue/2012-paintings) - 2012 Paintings Copeland’s Pond Arc, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 40 x 48 inches, 2012 inquire Winter Porch Piano, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 32 x 40 inches, 2012 inquire Invincible Cabin Oil on Mi-Teintes 48 x 40 inches 2012 inquire Piney Grove Power Lines Oil on Mi-Teintes 48 x 40 inches 2012 inquire See-Through Farmhouse, Oil on Mi-Teintes,
- [2022 Paintings](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/catalogue/2022-paintings) - 2022 Paintings Nocturnal Tide, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 18 x 24 inches, 2022 inquire Water Crisis, Oil, spray paint and mixed media on Mi-Teintes, 2022 inquire High Voltage Powerline Cut Oil on Mi-Teintes 64 x 40 2022 inquire Doomsday Glacier Oil, spray paint and mixed media on Mi-Teintes 20 x 12 inches 2022 inquire click for
- [2023 Paintings](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/catalogue/2023-paintings) - 2023 Paintings Curvilinear Hoover Dam, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 32 x 47 inches, 2023 inquire Inside Massive Hoover Dam Spillway Tunnels, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 64 x 47 inches, 2023 inquire Thirsty: Cupped Hands I Oil on Mi-Teintes 32 x 47 inches 2023 inquire Over Mead Powerline Cut Oil, spray paint and mixed media on Mi-Teintes 64
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- [Fellowships, Lectures & Awards](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/about/fellowships-lectures-awards) - Fellowships, Lectures & Awards Massachusetts Cultural Council Painting Fellowship, 2020 Commissioned Artist, “Structure and Perspective: David Brewster Explores Maryland’s Social Landscape”, Maryland Center for History and Culture | Baltimore, MD, 2017 Guest Artist and Lecturer, Assumption College, Bangkok, Thailand, 2014 Guest Artist and Lecturer, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD 2013 Guest Artist and
- [2018 Paintings](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/catalogue/2018-paintings) - 2018 Paintings North River Spillway, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 47 x 64 inches, 2018 inquire Collapsed Subsistence Farming Oil on Mi-Teintes 47 x 32 inches 2018 inquire Perpendicular Church Canal Oil on Mi-Teintes 64 x 47 inches 2018 inquire Syrian Father & Son Oil on Mi-Teintes 47 x 32 inches 2018 inquire Man Wave, Oil on
- [2021 Paintings](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/catalogue/2021-paintings) - 2021 Paintings Ripped Reflection, Oil, spray paint and mixed media on Mi-Teintes, 32 x 47 inches, 2021 inquire Auto Currents Coursing Oil, spray paint and mixed media on Crescent Board 40 x 32 inches 2021 inquire Mountain Guard Rails Deceleration Oil, spray paint and mixed media on Crescent Board 40 x 32 inches 2021 inquire
- [2020 Paintings](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/catalogue/2020-paintings) - Vanishing and Dampening, Oil, spray paint and mixed media on Mi-Teintes, 32 x 80 inches, 2020 inquire 2020 Paintings Self Isolation Texting Anxiety Oil, spray paint and mixed media on Mi-Teintes 47 x 32 inches 2020 inquire Perforated Peonies Oil, spray paint and mixed media on Mi-Teintes 40 x 30 inches 2020 inquire Birthplace of
- [2019 Paintings](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/catalogue/2019-paintings) - 2019 Paintings Adirondack Akimbo, Oil, spray paint and mixed media on Mi-Teintes, 47 x 64 inches, 2019 inquire Distance Disarranged Oil, spray paint and mixed media on Mi-Teintes 64 x 47 inches 2019 inquire Electromagnetic Radiation Nebula, Oil, spray paint and mixed media on Mi-Teintes, 47 x 64 inches, 2019 inquire Giant Shopping Emporium, Oil,
- [2010 Paintings](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/catalogue/2010-paintings) - B & O Grasshopper and Carrollton Viaduct, Oil on Gatorboard, 34 x 690 inches, 2010 inquire 2010 Paintings David Porter’s Observatory: Large Commercial Ship Seen from Federal Hill, 1805, Oil on Gatorboard, 34 x 69 inches, 2010 inquire Spectacular Destruction / Great Baltimore Fire: View Southeast from Continental Trust Building, 1904, Oil on Gatorboard, 34
- [2011 Paintings](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/catalogue/2011-paintings) - Vermont State Capital Fire of 1857: Temple in the Wilderness, Oil on Gatorboard, 35 x 70 inches, 2011 inquire 2011 Paintings Vermont State Capital Fire of 1857: Grand Staircase and Overstoked Wood Furnace Oil on Mi-Teintes 48 x 39 inches 2011 inquire Bethlehem Steel Nocturne along the Lehigh River, 1909, Oil on Gatorboard, 35 x
- [2013 Paintings](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/catalogue/2013-paintings) - Osborn Cabin through Post and Beam, Oil on Gatorboard, 35 x 70 inches, 2013 inquire 2013 Paintings Confluence, Oil on Gatorboard, 35 x 70 inches, 2013 inquire Cabin in Dark Shadows Oil on Mi-Teintes 48 x 40 inches 2013 inquire Home for Incurables Oil on Mi-Teintes 48 x 40 inches 2013 inquire Nobby Hill, Oil
- [2016 Paintings](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/catalogue/2016-paintings) - Two Women in a World of Spectacle and Fear, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 47 x 96 inches, 2016 inquire 2016 Paintings Roman Soldier Oil on Mi-Teintes 47 x 32 inches 2016 inquire Hovering Oil on Mi-Teintes 96 x 47 inches 2016 inquire Clifton Gothic Oil on Mi-Teintes 48 x 40 inches 2016 inquire Cumbis, Florence, Oil
- [2015 Paintings](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/catalogue/2015-paintings) - 2015 Paintings Frozen Spillway II, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 40 x 48 inches, 2015 inquire Blue Gray Soldiers Approach Dam Oil on Mi-Teintes 48 x 40 inches 2015 inquire Overhead Transmission, North River Oil on Mi-Teintes 48 x 40 inches 2015 inquire Knights Embrace Oil on Mi-Teintes 48 x 40 inches 2015 inquire Golden Triangle and
- [2014 Paintings](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/catalogue/2014-paintings) - Van Huysen Peonies, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 48 x 120 inches, 2014 inquire 2014 Paintings Pole Peckers Oil on Mi-Teintes 48 x 40 inches 2014 inquire West Branch, Oil on Mi-Teintes, 48 x 40 inches, 2014 inquire West Haligonian with Demijohn Oil on Mi-Teintes 48 x 40 inches 2014 inquire click for the full 2014 archive
- [Selected Bibliography](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/about/selected-bibliography) - Selected Bibliography Amore, B. "Art Out of the Ordinary", Art New England, Nov/Dec 2016 Issue, p. 14 Amore, B. "The Artist's Voice", The Times Argus & Rutland Herald, April 21-22, 2018, p. D1, D10 Bowers, J. “Manic Expression, Baltimorean David Brewster Brings Uneven Zeal to his Bleak Scenes.” Baltimore City Paper, December 15, 2004, p. 56.
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- [Contact](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/contact) - David B. Brewster 114 Stowe Mountain Road Halifax, Vermont 05358 cell) 802-558-3150 david@davidbrewsterfineart.com Your Name (required) Your Email (required) Subject Your Message Gallery Representation Chase Young Gallery Kate Kostopoulos, Director 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02118 617-859-7222 chaseyounggallery.com Gross McCleaf Gallery Sharon Ewing, Director 127 S 16th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-665-8138 grossmccleaf.com C. Grimaldis Gallery
- [Gallery Representation](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/about/gallery-representation) - Gallery Representation Chase Young Gallery Kate Kostopoulos, Director 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02118 617-859-7222 chaseyounggallery.com Gross McCleaf Gallery Sharon Ewing, Director 127 S 16th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-665-8138 grossmccleaf.com C. Grimaldis Gallery Costas Grimaldis, Director 523 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 410-539-1080 cgrimaldisgallery.com
- [Painting Residency: Thailand, 2014](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/painting-residency-thailand-2014) - Painting Residency: Thailand, Winter 2014 (Information coming soon)
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- [Teaching](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/about/teaching) - Teaching I strive to challenge students not only to make a strong connection to what it is they feel and see but also to accept how they see. Further, they are encouraged to translate honestly to paper their vision, no matter how unconventional. Style is a result of this exploration. When teaching and learning are
- [Process](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/about/process) - The Story of a Painting I painted Deep Springs High Desert (oil, 15 x 39) while in the high desert of California for 14 weeks of teaching and painting at Deep Springs College. What drew me to this particular location, with the towering, snowcapped Sierra Nevada mountains in the background, was the uncanny compression of
- [Education & Professional Experience](https://www.davidbrewsterfineart.com/about/education-professional-experience) - Education & Professional Experience Education 1993 Art Teaching Certification, Moore College of Art Philadelphia, PA 1988 Master of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 1985 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, MD Additional Studies 1980-1982 Leo Marchutz School, Aix-en-Provence, France 1979-1980 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Professional
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