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by Nancy Helle in New Canaan-Darien Magazine, April, 2003

	DAVID ALLEN DUNLOP Education Master of Fine Arts, The Pratt Institute, New York, NY Post-Graduate Printmaking, R. Blackburn’s Studio, New York, NY Bachelor of Liberal Arts (Phi Beta Kappa), College of Wooster, Wooster, OH Lectures Metropolitan Museum, April 9, 2005, A History of Landscape Painting, A Timeline One-Person Exhibitions “Best Loved Landscapes of Italy”--2006; “Toscano D’Oro – Golden Tuscany” –  2005; also solo exhibitions 2000-2004, The Weatherburn Gallery, Naples, FL  “Town & Country”- 2006; “Elements of Nature” – 2005; also solo exhibitions 2003, 1998-2001, Left of the Bank Gallery, Old Greenwich, CT  “Oregon: Coast to Columbia Plateau”- 2006; “Oil Paintings…” – 2004; “Italy to Oregon: Trails to Paradise” – 2002, Attic Gallery, Portland, OR  “Art & Nature: No Boundaries,” – 2005; “Dunlop Paints the Northwest Corner” - 2004, The White Gallery, Lakeville, CT “New England Waterways,” Beaux Arts Gallery, Woodbury, CT – 2003 “A Summer Visit,” The Lily Pad Gallery, Watch Hill, RI - 2003  “Tidewaters & Marshlands…,” Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT – 2002 “Tidewaters” – 2002; also 2001, William Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA “Landscapes in Paradise,” Chemeketa Community College, Salem, OR - 2002          “New England Waterways,” Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton, CT – 2002 “Golden Light:  From Tuscany to Maine”- 2001; “Landscapes” – 1999, 2000,  The Firehouse Gallery, Damariscotta, ME “Translucence,” Eisenhauer Galleries, Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, MA - 2001 “From the Notebooks of DaVinci,” Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NY, NY - 2001 “From the Notebooks of DaVinci,” Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO - 2001            “Recent Monotypes & Paintings,” Eisenhauer Gallery, Block Island, RI – 2000 “Pastoral Journeys,” Kimberly Greer Gallery, Northport, NY - 1999 “The Connecticut Shore & Countryside,” Artworks, Greenwich, CT - 1999 “Director’s Choice,” Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT - 1999            “Landscape Miniatures,” Gallery Brocken, Tokyo, JAPAN - 1999 “Quest for Eden,” Bruce Kershner Gallery, Fairfield, CT - 1998 “Search for Eden,” Cortland Jessup Gallery, New York, NY - 1998             “Landscapes & Monotypes,” - 1990-1997; C. Jessup Gallery, Provincetown, MA “David Dunlop - Paintings,” The Riverpark Atrium, Norwalk, CT - 1997 Wilton Library, Wilton, CT - 1997 “Aug. thru Nov.Landscapes,”Silvermine Guild Arts Center,New Canaan,CT-1996 “From Tuscany to Provence,” Art Services International, Westport, CT - 1996 New Canaan Country Club, New Canaan, CT - 1995, 1996 “Recent Paintings,” Mickelson Gallery, Washington, DC - 1995 “Mercantile (Bankcorporation)’s Salute to its Hometown,” St. Louis, MO – 1992 Picasso’s Gallery, Hartford, CT – 1992 The Saugatuck Gallery, Westport, CT - 1986 The Lockwood Mathews Mansion Museum, Norwalk, CT - 1981   Selected Group Exhibitions Offices of Senator Lieberman, CT Commission on Culture & Tourism - 2006            “Paint+Paper,”- 2005;“Serial Style,”-1999, Marie Park, Private Dealer, Dallas,TX “Ón Common Ground,” The Munson Gallery, Chatham, MA - 2005            “Plein Air in the Park – Silvermine School of Art Visits the Reservation,” The Gallery in the Park at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, Pound Ridge, NY - 2005 “Skyscapes,” The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT – 2004-2005 “Art of the Northeast USA,” Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT-     2004; Winner of Jens Risom Award; Juror:  Maurice Tuchman. Also exhibited   1995, 1992, 1990, 1980 “Sojourners in Dutchess County,” Chisholm Gallery, Pine Plains, NY -- 2003  "Storytelling,” Art 3 Gallery, Manchester, NH - 2003 “The Seacoast – Near and Far,” Susan Powell Fine Art, Madison, CT - 2003 “Gallery Classics,” The Firehouse Gallery, Damariscotta, ME - 2003 “Across the Great Divide,”invitational show,Gallery at Onatru, S.Salem,NY-2001            “Journey Through Tuscany,” The Weatherburn Gallery, Naples, FL – 2001  “New Art Annual,” Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT - 1998, 1999, 2000 CowParade, NY, NY. Cow featured in commemorative book; auctioned - 2000  “A Decade Together,” Cortland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown, MA - 1999 “A Silvermine Arrangement,” invitational show for six artists, Hammond    Museum, South Salem, NY - 1998 “Landscapes,” Hiram Halle Memorial Library Gallery, Pound Ridge, NY - 1997  “Archeology of the Spirit I & II,” Gallery Brocken, Tokyo, JAPAN - 1996  “Contemporary Visions - Landscapes,” Duracell Corp., Waterbury, CT - 1996            “Wet Art Auction,” Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA - 1996  Greenwich Academy, Greenwich, CT - 1996  “Old World/New World Landscapes,” Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT - 1995 “Silvermine goes to New York,” Robert Natkin, Curator - Kohn Pederson Fox  Gallery, New York, NY - 1995  “Landscape: Traditions & Transitions,” Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT-1995 “Connecticut Art,” Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT - 1986, 1994 “In Celebration of the Garden,” Walker-Kornbluth Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ - 1994  “The Artists’ Garden,” HBO Entertainment, Inc., New York, NY - 1994 “Water,” Landmark at Eastview, Tarrytown, NY - 1994  Gallery at the Inn, New Preston, CT - 1994 Governor’s Bridgeport Office, State of Connecticut, Bridgeport, CT - 1993 “12 x 12,” Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT - 1993 Two-Person Show, Mickelson Gallery, Washington, DC - 1992 “Neighbors:  Artists of Westchester & Southern Connecticut,” Krasdale Foods Gallery, White Plains, NY – 1992 “Nature in the Nude,” Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT - 1992            “A Slice of Life,” Aetna Gallery, Hartford, CT - 1991 State of Connecticut, Commission on the Arts, Hartford, CT - 1991 Offices of the Honorable Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Governor of CT - 1991 New Members Show, Silvermine Guild Art Center, New Canaan, CT - 1990 “Art at the Millhouse: II,” Webb & Parsons - North, Bedford Hills, NY - 1989             United States State Department (Traveling Exhibit), Washington, DC - 1988 Mattatuck Museum Show of CT Painters & Sculptors, Waterbury, CT-1986, 1987 “4 Winners,”CT Painters’Winners’ Show, Stamford Museum, Stamford,CT-1986 “11th Ann. Juried Art Exhibition,” Milford Fine Arts Council, Milford, CT-1986 On Tour with the Caraccio Collection (Selected Universities & Museums) - 1984 “Paper in Particular,” Columbia College, Columbia, MO Friends of American Art, The Butler Art Institute, Akron, OH Connecticut Watercolor Society, Museum of Art & Science, Bridgeport, CT The TRW Corporation Show (Recent Acquisitions), Cleveland, OH National Museums Foundation, Washington, DC “American Realism” Show, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, WV The Bell Gallery, Greenwich, CT - 1982 “Realities,” Webb & Parsons Gallery, New Canaan, CT - 1980 “Young Artists,” Greenwich Art Barn, Greenwich, CT - 1979   Awards Jens Risom Award, “55th Annual Art of the Northeast,” Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT - 2004 The Razooks Award for Painting, Juried Show, Greenwich, CT 1st Prize for Drawing, Juried Show, Greenwich, CT Eder Bros. Foundation Award, New Haven Paint & Clay Club, New Haven, CT Best in Show (Watercolor), Juried Show, The City of Fairfield, CT Purchase Award, Juried Show, The City of Fairfield, CT Judge’s Award, New Haven Paint & Clay Club, New Haven, CT Grand Prize & Purchase Award, Milford Fine Arts Council, Milford, CT Winner of CT Painters’ & Sculptors’ Annual, Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT  Publications/Productions  DVD’s by Connie Simmons/Simmons Ar:  “Painting Landscapes with David Dunlop – Program 1 - Oil; Program 2 –   Acrylic; Program 3 – Watercolor; Program 4 - Painting in Tuscany,” Copyright       Art by David Dunlop, Tidewaters of the CT River, River’s End Press, Essex, CT -2001 Published Prints (Orion Editions/Robert Kimbril, New York, NY) Silk-screens: “Floodplain,” 30 colors, 30” x 40”; “Bourbeuse,” 38 colors, 30” x  40”; “Waterturns,” 28 colors, 30” x 40”; “Waterlights,” 28 colors, 26” x 52” Etching:  “Tanglewood,” 4 colors, multiple plates, 24” x 52”   Selected Commissions For law firm, Washington, DC:  Japanese garden, 4’x 10’, acrylic/oil on canvas For Webster Bank, Waterbury, CT:  downtown panorama, 6’ x 12’, oil on canvas For financial services firm, Greenwich, CT: seascape, 4’ x 5’, acrylic on canvas  For cover of book, illustrations:  Connecticut River, oil on canvas. For LaSalle Partners, Houston, TX:  3 Texas landscapes, 8’ x 16’, 8’ x 10’                  and 8’ x 10’, acrylic on canvas, centerpiece and side pieces for building lobby For Fairfield County Savings Bank, Fairfield, CT:  landscape, 6’ x 12’, acrylic on      canvas, centerpiece of lobby of renovated bank For Mercantile Bank & Trust, St. Louis, MO:  21 paintings, ranging from 24” x     36” to 52” x 52,” acrylic on paper, depicting landmarks of St. Louis For Aetna Insurance Company, Hartford, CT:  vertical diptych painting, 16’ x 8’,      acrylic on canvas, installed in lobby of Aetna’s new world headquarters For CT National Bank, Norwalk, CT:  3 paintings, each 44” x 72”, oil/acrylic on    canvas, depicting historic Norwalk & New Haven, CT, installed in bank’s lobby For SNET Yellow Pages, New Haven, CT:  4 paintings, ranging from 32” x 46”     to 44” x 90”, acrylic on canvas, installed in boardrooms and executive offices For NYNEX, NY, NY:  2 paintings for covers of NYNEX Corporate Directory Representative Collections Aetna Insurance Co.                                               Lord & Taylor                        American Brands, Inc.                                            Manufacturers Hanover Trust            Amoco Corp.                                                           McGraw Hill Bellevue Hospital                                                    Mercantile Bankcorporation                        BF Saul Company                                                Merrill Lynch Bohringer Ingelheim                                                Missouri Bar Association Champion Corp.                                                       Mobil Gas Corp. Chemical Bank                                                         Nagoya Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Citibank                                                                    NYNEX City of Fairfield, CT                                                Office of the Governor, State of MO City of Milford, CT                                                Oppenheimer Colgate Palmolive                                                PepsiCo Connecticut National Bank                                    Readers Digest Delta Airlines                                                           Reliance Insurance            Dun & Bradstreet                                                     Saatchi & Saatchi Ernst & Young                                                          Sacred Heart University Exxon Corp.                                                            Salomon Smith Barney Fairfield County Savings Bank                                 Mr.& Mrs. Sigler (Chrm., Champion) GE Capital Corporation                                             SNET Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, Wash., DC                     Thacher Profitt & Wood Hamilton Standard/United Technologies                   TRW Corp. IBM Corp.                                                            US State Department LaSalle Partners                                                     Warburg Pincus                        Bibliography Dingfelder, Sadie F., “Arts Aflutter,” Connecticut Magazine, February 2006 Benjamin Genocchio, “Let Us Entertain You:  This and That at the Silvermine,” The New York Times, May 23, 2004 Nancy Helle, “David Dunlop – A Modern-Day Old Master,” New Canaan-Darien Magazine, April 2003 Tracey O’Shaughnessy, “The Art of Landscape,” Republican-American, 1/30/03 Michelle Andrews, “Patrons of entry-level art,” U.S. News & World Report, 1/20/03 William Zimmer, “Behind Each Stroke, the Art of Eloquence,” The New York Times, 7/7/02; “Gifted Choices of a Sort of Guest Curator in Stamford,” New York Times, 4/19/98; “Uncle Sam, Wonder Woman & Some Other American Ideals,” The New York Times, 7/2/95 Cate McQuaid, “The jury is in this exhibit, and out on the edge with its work,” The Boston Globe, 7/26/02 L.P. Streitfeld, “The Luminous Landscapes of David Dunlop,” The Advocate and Greenwich Time, 10/21/01   Rachel Paradise-DePalma, “ ‘Art Bridges the Great Divide’ at Onatru FarmGallery,” The Patent Trader, 6/28/01 “Silvermine Artists to Exhibit…at Onatru Farm,” Ridgefield Press, 6/21/01 D. Dominick Lombardi, “Crossing Borders, and Not Just in Art,” The New York Times, 7/22/01; “65 Artists at Work...,” The New York Times, 3/26/00; “Three Artists Transcending Genres,” The New York Times, 1/17/99   George Wallace, “Celebrating the Forensics of the Soul,” Northport Journal, 10/28/99  Adam W. Petrucelli, “Painter David Dunlop Sees Provincetown in New Colors,” Cape Week, 9/13-9/19/96    Sally LaMotte Crane, “Artists in our Midst,” Cape Cod Life, 9/96 Cablevision, “Fairfield Exchange,” interview and painting demonstration – 1996 “Art Scene,” Provincetown Magazine, 9/28/95 Adam Gamble,“Portrait of an Artist: David Dunlop,”Provincetown Mag., 8/10/95   Vivien Raynor, “Familiar Names, Bright Effect at the ‘Connecticut Art’ Show,”   The New York Times, 5/24/94; “The Drive to be Topical, the Urge to Compete,” The New York Times, 5/31/92   Kate E. Jennings, “Northeast USA Produces Interesting, Innovative Art,” Darien News-Review, 5/21/92   D. Grant, “Artists Adjust to Tough Times,” Christian Science Monitor, 2/25/91 J.L. Haenlein,“4 Winners Aren’t Abstract About Art Show,” Stamford Advocate, 2/86   Teaching Activities   Faculty Member, Silvermine School of Art, New Canaan, CT – 1993 - present: “Landscape Painting:  Beginning, Intermediate & Advanced”                                    “Print-making:  Monotypes - Independent Study” Leader of painting groups to Italy, France and Japan Workshops including “The Total Workshop (Silverpoint, Goldleaf, Fresco, 16th                       Century Italian Oil Painting, Acrylic, Egg Tempera, Watercolor);” “Linear, Curvilinear & Isometric Perspective Systems;”  “Working from DaVinci’s Notebooks;” “3000 Years of Art History in Landscape Painting;” “Painting at Weir Farm;” “Encaustic Painting;” “Egg Tempera;” “Monotype w/Figure;” “18th-19th Century Watercolor Technique;” “Buon Fresco/Fresco Secco”  Visiting Artist/Artist-in-Residence/Lecturer/Juror: Society of Creative Arts, Newtown, CT - 2005 Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT - 2005 Sheffield Art Guild, Sheffield, MA - 2005 Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT - 2005 Spring Island Trust, Spring Island, SC – 2005 National League of American Pen Women, Greenwich, CT - 2005 Mamaroneck Artists Guild, Larchmont, NY – 2005 Wilton Garden Club, Wilton, CT -- 2005 Darien High School, Darien, CT – 2004, 2005 Roundtop Arts Center, Damariscotta, ME – 2004, 2005 Watch Hill Art Group, Watch Hill, RI – 2004, 2005 CT Classic Arts Showcase, Trumbull, CT - 1997, 1998, 2001-2005  “Landscape Painting,” Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ --2003 Westchester Watercolor Society, Westchester County, NY – 2001, 2002, 2003 Joel Barlow, Wilton, New Canaan & Norwalk High Schools, CT - 1997-2003 Chemeketa Community College, Salem, OR – 2002  “Arts Anxiety,” New Canaan County School, New Canaan, CT -1998-2001 Whitby School, Greenwich, CT - 1999 “History of Landscape Painting,” Wilton High School Faculty, Wilton, CT -1997 “Rome to the Renaissance:  Art & Education;”  “Search for Meaning;” “Search for Eden,” Unitarian Universalist Church, Westport, CT - 1996, 1997 Greenwich Academy, Greenwich, CT - 1996 Wolfpit Elementary School, New Canaan, CT - 1994, 1995 “NW Nat. Am. Art & Life,” Columbus Magnet School, Norwalk,CT-1990-1995  Professional Activities  Silvermine Guild Arts Center:  Co-Chairman, Board of Directors, 2001–2004; Board Member, 1998-2001; Vice Chairman, 1991-1996; Gallery Comm., 1990-1998