Barbara Cushing is a realist artist living in New York. From 1972 through 1986 she pursued a career as a landscape artist, painting in Maine where she was a professor of art, as well at other locations in New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Alaska. Her landscapes are in private and corporate collections and was represented by the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery in New York from 1982–1988. She was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1985 and The MacDowell Fellowship in 1977 and 1981. There are 36 of her paintings and drawings at the Fogg Art Museum, permanent collection at the Agnes Mongan Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, at Harvard University.
Discipline:
Visual Art
Barbara Cushing
Discipline:
Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1977, 1981
Studios
Eastman
Barbara Cushing worked in the Eastman studio.
Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…