Two for one at Jerico

CALLICOON, NY — A show of the work of artists Jules Perlmutter and Judith Reeve will open at the Jerico Fine Arts Gallery on Saturday, July 15. There will be an opening reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Reeve grew up along the Delaware River, not far from Chadds Ford. From 1990 to 1993, she studied at the Lyme Academy of Fine Art, which based its curriculum on the 19th century French ateliers, where students worked intensively from the live model each and every day. It was there, in the former artist colony of the Lyme Impressionists, that Reeve began her pursuit of plein aire landscape painting. The Lyme Impressionists’ sense of light and color, and their ability to capture the movement of nature, continues to influence her work today.

Reeve, whose meeting with Andrew Wyeth at age nine was pivotal in her decision to become a painter, continues to be inspired by the works of American painters—most notably Robert Henri, the influential mentor to Bellows, Hopper, Sloan and Rockwell Kent. Reeve spent years independently studying Henri's personal archive, which is housed at Yale's Beinecke Library. His influence shows up in her strong independent sense of color.

Jules Perlmutter attended the Cooper Union Art School and Yale University School of Design from which he received a BFA. Following his studies he worked briefly at both the American Museum of Natural History as an apprentice exhibitions designer and then for the Museum of Modern Art as a publications designer.

In 1962 he received a U.S. Government Fulbright grant for painting and study in France, where he was active in the community art activities of his "arrondissement" and exhibited in international showings in Switzerland and Monaco.

In recent years, he has lived in both Paris and New York, exhibiting in Paris, London, Berlin, and Gstaad, Switzerland. He now divides his time between New York City and Bethel.

For more information call 845/887-5990.