Phoebe Beasley
Fine China
Silk Screen
26 x 32 inches
Edition of 300
Published by Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia.
Phoebe Beasley gives substance to the phrase creative artist if indeed the phrase isn't redundant.
As a painter, her eye is sharp and quick. She sees human beings, our foibles, frailties, and strengths, and she cares about what she sees. I have watched her over the past 20 years use gouache, watercolor, tissue paper, and oil to tell the human story of friends sitting at tables sharing jokes, of workers waiting at bus stops, and musicians expressing soulful melodies. She has shown us how we look when we have been assailed by grief. Her eye has captured and her art has revealed the grace in angular teenagers and the composure of sleeping, old women.
Phoebe Beasley's eye has never failed her; has never lied to her, and her art generously gives us beauty, information, and always the truth.
—Maya Angelou
—Excerpted from http://www.phoebebeasley.com/homepage.htm, accessed 8-10-2021
