Distant Journey
Jan Baltzell
Signed, titled, and dated verso.
Custom framed in a solid, unfinished maple floater.
Private Collection, United States
Overall very good and stable condition. One very small (.25 inch) flake, top center, revealing red base pigment. No evidence of prior restoration. Not examined under UV light.
Jan Baltzell
Jan Baltzell was born in 1948, the daughter of the acclaimed painter Jane Piper and the sociologist E. Digby Baltzell. She studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, now the University of the Arts, where her teachers included the painters Larry Day and Gretna Campbell. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the college and a Master of Fine Arts from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Beginning in 1966, Baltzell spent part of each year in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, in a house overlooking the marshes and Herring River. The landscape there inspired many of her paintings. She has described her approach in her own words: “My love of nature provides me with a working structure.”
Baltzell has worked extensively in oil and oil pastel on Mylar, a translucent polyester film, producing abstract paintings and drawings in bright color. She is represented by Schmidt Dean Gallery in Philadelphia. She has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and has exhibited nationally.
Baltzell has taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts since 1985, where she instructs still life painting and drawing and serves as a critic in the Certificate/BFA, Post-Baccalaureate, and MFA programs. She has also taught or served as a visiting professor at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, Towson State University, and Drexel University.
Her work is held in public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Bryn Mawr College, the Woodmere Art Museum, and the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State.
Sources: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Woodmere Art Museum
Jan Baltzell was born in 1948, the daughter of the acclaimed painter Jane Piper and the sociologist E. Digby Baltzell. She studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, now the University of the Arts, where her teachers included the painters Larry Day and Gretna Campbell. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the college and a Master of Fine Arts from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Beginning in 1966, Baltzell spent part of each year in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, in a house overlooking the marshes and Herring River. The landscape there inspired many of her paintings. She has described her approach in her own words: “My love of nature provides me with a working structure.”
Baltzell has worked extensively in oil and oil pastel on Mylar, a translucent polyester film, producing abstract paintings and drawings in bright color. She is represented by Schmidt Dean Gallery in Philadelphia. She has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and has exhibited nationally.
Baltzell has taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts since 1985, where she instructs still life painting and drawing and serves as a critic in the Certificate/BFA, Post-Baccalaureate, and MFA programs. She has also taught or served as a visiting professor at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, Towson State University, and Drexel University.
Her work is held in public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Bryn Mawr College, the Woodmere Art Museum, and the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State.
Sources: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Woodmere Art Museum
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