![]() ![]() “I would have pursued art in college had I found a program that taught realistic art that I preferred,” Wingate said. Though it was his favorite class in high school, Wingate was deterred from going to art school because of the popular focus on modern art. ![]() Today, from his studio in rural Madison, Virginia, he draws and creates oil paintings as an artist who specializes in figurative portraits, landscapes, still-lifes and religious paintings, trained in the tradition of the Boston School, one of the few links to the pre-modern art era. ![]() He started making art when he was six, and he shudders when he sees one acrylic painting he did at an early age now hanging in his parents’ house. “I don’t remember it at all, but that could have been a big influence on me,” Wingate said. Wingate’s parents lived behind the Library of Congress when he was born, and the family’s Sunday activity was going down the hill to the National Gallery of Art, where his parents would push him and his sister around the gallery in strollers. Henry Wingate was young when his interest in art first sparked. “Look at the big picture,” the artist says. Palette nestled in his arm, brush in left hand, he strides forward in measured paces, into the light he so loves. He is just looking, eyes flitting back and forth from model to canvas. ![]() The artist stands in the shadowed corner of the studio. ![]()
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