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Strawberries
  12" x  16"

         
  Cherries and Fruit                                   Copper Bucket and Onions                                Oranges and Grapes
  12" x  16"                                                           22" x  28"                                                         12" x  16"

         
Melons with Fruit                                           Bowl of Fruit                                             Blue on Blue    
   18" x  24"                                                     24" x  18"                                                   22" x  28"

           
    Stargazer Lilies                                          Pears and Grapes                                       Silver and Plumbs
   22" x  28"                                                      18" x  14"                                                      16" x  20"

"Dorothy Fitzgerald traces her long and successful career as a self-taught painter to the experiences of her earliest years. “I began when I was three years old, and all I ever wanted to do was to be an artist.”

As a young artist, Dorothy says, she visited the major museums in the U.S. and came away captivated by seventeenth-century Baroque still life. With these as her models, she has developed a richly luminous style, in which beautifully textured, highlighted objects seem to emerge from a soft dark background. But although she is within the tradition of the Spanish and Dutch still life masters, (she is particularly fond of Vermeer), she values her individuality as an artist, and the style she developed is uniquely her own. A collector herself, Dorothy is particularly fond of Impressionism, and she has practiced painting in that style in order to lend spontaneity and life to her work; which, paradoxically, has become even more precise as the years have passed.

The objects that Dorothy chooses to paint-Native American Artifacts, antique objects d’art and musical instruments-are borrowed from friends, antique stores and from her own collection. As historic pieces, they impart a special added dimension to her work.

A popular teacher, Dorothy taught classes and workshops throughout Northern California. Her works hang in the collections of many prominent art patrons in the U.S. and abroad."

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