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| A note about The Beverly Stevens Petrie Teacher's Resource Room of the Cincinnati Art
Museum...treasure trove of information for teachers, schoolchildren and students of the visual arts of all ages located within the world-renowned collection
of the Cincinnati Art Museum. For more information visit the CAM
web site.
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 "In a world like ours, that is busier than ever before, it is of particular rarity and importance to learn to look at life with a curious eye for observation. And it is just that eye for nature and the light on the land that Bruce Petrie brings to the canvas. I am particularly fond of the paintings of his native Ohio. When Bruce Petrie renders the subtle beauty of the region's surrounding farm fields and parklands, it is easy to imagine you are there, not on a Sunday afternoon, but 100 years ago." Thane Maynard Director, Cincinnati Zoo
"Bruce Petrie's work in the field of plein air landscape painting is
exceptional. Its real hallmark is a wonderful sense of freshness and
luminosity. We've painted together in Maine and elsewhere, and the
thing that impresses me most is that all his spirited brushwork is
typically underpinned with extraordinarily crisp and carefully executed
drawing. It's a refreshing and masterful combination, and one rarely
seen in
today's plein air movement."
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"Over the past 15 years I have seen Bruce Petrie evolve from a gifted student to an accomplished painter. He is a keen observer of the world we share." Tom Buechner American Master Artist and Author |
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Photography by Daniel Petrie |
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he artwork of Bruce I. Petrie, Jr...
n college, graduate school and years following, he pursued free lance illustration, caricature and editorial cartooning, producing a portfolio of several hundred published and reproduced works. In 1989, he began oil painting with American Master Thomas Buechner in the beautiful Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York.
ver the years since, Bruce has refined his skills through many hours of painting outdoors directly from nature. His easel has traveled across the United States and in France, Italy, Canada, Mexico and
Guatemala. He paints in the parklands and natural areas near his home in Cincinnati,
as well as in Southwestern Ohio, Northern Michigan, Upstate New York and the American West. He is a member of a guild of artists who meet
and draw weekly in Cincinnati and share a dedication to carrying on classical disciplines of direct drawing and painting. His artwork is regularly shown and is held in distinguished private collections.
