"I love paper, and pigments being transported along a thin surface of transparent water.
Although my paintings are often classical, I studied at the Museum School in Boston and
the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris when marks, gesture and atmosphere were of greatest importance.
As I travelled more and more, the charcoal and oils gave way to a small watercolor box and brushes.
Through the streets of Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Boston, New York, Mexico and Guatemala, I have painted
indoors and out, subjects from the eternal to the fleeting. The human form and the humble strawberry are
endlessly inspiring."
Wendy Artin, Arts and Minds, documentary film by Julie Kucaj of Bravo Television, Canada 2002
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Wendy Artin is an American painter. She primarily works in watercolor and charcoal. Her work is figurative and classical and explores the timeless interaction of light with surfaces on architecture and the human body.
Artin grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, where she climbed trees, walked on her hands, rode a unicycle, and drew constantly. As a child and young adult she spent a great deal of time traveling and living abroad, sketching in streets, cafés, museums. She met her husband, Bruno Boschin, when her travels took her to Italy and into his bookstore, the Libreria del Viaggiatore (The Bookshop of the Traveller), in Rome.
Wendy Artin is the Fine Arts winner of the 2023 Arthur Ross Award for Excellence in the Classical Tradition.
Announcement by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. Photos of the Award Ceremony and Dinner at the University Club in New York.
62 artworks by Artin are in the Prints and Drawings Collection of the Boston Public Library.
In 2015, the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology showed 47 works in "Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculpture", curated by Christopher Ratté.