Yellow Links, 1990
Watercolor on Paper, 30" x 32"
Joseph R. Schubert was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1932 and died in Alexandria, Virginia in 2017. He was ordained in 1961 but left the priesthood in 1970. Schubert received his formal training in realist watercolor painting under Margaret Graham Kranking, and began painting in the watercolor medium in 1983. His works have been featured in American Artist and Modern Maturity magazines and accepted in national, regional, and local juried exhibitions. Schubert's still lifes explore the special qualities of light and color values found in the musky, cluttered rooms of curio shops and old barns, or the random formal settings of more gracious antique rooms. His landscapes capture the silent moods of New England coastal villages and the deserts and mountains of the West and the Southwest.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.