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Posted by Anthony Holdsworth on March 2nd, 2009 | 1 Comment delete

Categories: Italy, Uncategorized

A Conversation with Spain Rodriguez: L. ...

When the rains drove me off the streets a couple of weeks ago, I proposed to Spain Rodriguez, that we paint each other. The resulting works are still incomplete, but I am posting them anyway because one of our concurrent conversations dealt with a show at the Oakland Museum of California that closes March 8th. I’m hoping we will inspire some of you to visit the exhibition ‘L.A.Paint’. It will be worth your time. Spain Rodriguez by Anthony Holdsworth, Work in Progress, oil/canvas Spain was in the midst of a project illustrating the life of the American...

Posted by Anthony Holdsworth on February 22nd, 2009 | 1 Comment delete

Categories: New Work, Politcal commentary, san francisco, Uncategorized

Global Warming and the United States of ...

Global Warming Triptych, New Montgomery and Market, San Francisco, each oil painting about 4.5 ft square My father, Dennis Holdsworth, who was one of the principle developers of airborne radar in England during the war, introduced me to the concept of global warming in the late 50′s. In those days it was called ‘the greenhouse effect’. The long term effects were not as clear then as they are today, but the scientific community was already aware of an impending crisis. So with more than fifty years notice, why has the world’s preeminent power...

Posted by Anthony Holdsworth on February 16th, 2009 | 4 Comments delete

Categories: Italy, Uncategorized

Painting Workshop in Tuscany, Italy...

Every other year I teach a painting workshop on a farm, near Florence in the Tuscan countryside. The farm makes its own organic olive oil, chianti and grappa. Its young owners and a mutual friend, Carla, cook for us most evenings. Would you like to join me? If you are interested visit Classes to sign up. Apart from these evenings of wine and conversation with, maybe, a short passage of Vasari, or Dante we explore Florence and other towns. I lived in Florence for nearly two years after the biblical flood of November 1966. I was Head of Outdoor Restoration for the...

Posted by Anthony Holdsworth on January 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment delete

Categories: California, oakland, Uncategorized

Obama on Broadway...

This is one one of my most successful downtown paintings and I owe part of its success to the election of Barack Obama. I’ve painted three pictures here. I enjoy the contrast of the modern buildings across Broadway with the old buildings which are reminiscent, as John Protopapas once remarked, of the towers of San Gimignano in Tuscany. But it’s a difficult place to work. The bus stop and BART attract large crowds. And there are a smattering of extremely disturbed people who become belligerent for no particular reason except that I’m here and...

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about the artist

Anthony Holdsworth was born in England in 1945. He was introduced to oil painting in high school by the New England painter, Loring Coleman. Holdsworth embarked on a painting career while working as Head of Outdoor Restoration for the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy after the flood of 1966. He continued his studies at the Bournemouth College of Art in England where he studied with master draftsman Samuel Rabin and color theorist Jon Fish and at the San Francisco Art Institute where he studied with Julius Hatofsky. He has shown with major galleries in Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles. He has participated in two exhibitions at the Oakland Museum. He was included in the California Cityscapes exhibition at the San Diego Museum. He was a recipient of WESTAF-NEA fellowship in 1990. His work is in corporate and private collections worldwide.

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