Spring Greens

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Blade of grass from Joseph Patterson Blog

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In homage to the Vernal Equinox, which takes place tomorrow, I've curated a post with a primavera palette of shoots and new growth. What's not to love about a hue that starts out so fresh from its push into the light that it's almost translucent, deepens with chlorophyll, and then embraces a spectrum of verdancy that explodes into bloom?

To use the language of the season, the project germinated when I made a mental connection among the paintings of Sand T, a Boston-based artist, Julie Evans and Julie Gross. From there it just, well, grew. Joseph Patterson's Blade of Grass, the image that opens the post, is a lovely and poetic find from the Internet that unites nature and art. And now on to art and spring . . .

Julie Evans

Lesson From a Guinea Hen #10, 2008, mixed water-based media and colored pencil on paper, app. 23 x 30 inches

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Richard Bottwin

Facade #5, 2009; wood, acrylic paint, textured acrylic sheet; 15 x 15 x 15 inches.

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Sand T
The Space Between Z-1 Chartreuse, 2009; epoxy, resin, paint, graphite on board; 14.5 x 14.5 x 1.75 inches

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Julie Gross
Fugue State, 2002, oil on linen, 24 x 24 inches
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Alan Ebnother

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Anne Russinof
Yellow Quilt, 2010, oil on linen, 21 x 16 inches

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Steven Alexander

Chromatin, 2009, acrylic on linen, 26 x 20 inches

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. Anne Truitt

A Wall for Apricots, 1968, painted wood; from "Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection" at the Hirschhorn .

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Douglas Witmer

Green Gloves, 2009, black gesso and acrylic on canvas, 24 x 20 inches.

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Joanne Mattera

Silk Trail #65, 2010, unique digital print, paper size 11.5 x 8 inches

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Joan Mellon

Amsterdam Prague Suite 13, 2005, oil on paper, 12 x 16 inches

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Melissa Meyer
The Nicholas Series XII, 2007, watercolor on paper, 17.5 x 32 inches
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Peter Wayne Lewis
Beijing Booster 37, 2007, acrylic on Linen, 216 X 183 cm

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Molly Heron
Unrest, 2007, gouache on paper, 7 x 9 inches
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Robert Sagerman
7373, 2008, oil on canvas, 21 x 20 inches
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Susan Schwalb
Songlines III, 2005, silverpoint and acrylic on paper on wood, 24 x 24 x 2 inches
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Margaret Neill
Untitled, gouache on paper, 23 x 22 inches
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. Jaq Chartier
18 Greens; acrylic, stains, spray paint on wood panel, 24 x 30 inches
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Pamela Farrell
All things Flow (Green), 2010, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches
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Clytie Alexander
Diaphan Green 1, 2006; pigment, shellac and acrylic on kozo; 34 x 24 inches
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Grace De Gennaro
Green River, 2007, oil on linen, 28 x 16 .
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Chris Ashley

Green and Orange Grid, Black Corner, 2009, HTML (captured j-peg), 400x400 pixels.

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Julie Karabenick

Composition 88, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 inches

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Stephen Maine

Mesh Painting, 2008

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