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The artist painting in The Rose Garden at the PA Governor's Residence for the Annual Harrisburg Gallery Walk, September '09. View the portrait »
Catherine Prescott is a prize-winning portrait painter from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She is one of ten painters chosen for a portrait exhibition at The Butler Institute of American Art in 2010. She is the recipient of a 2008 Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her work was one of 51 finalists chosen from over 4,000 entries for the 2006 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the National Portrait Gallery. Smithsonian, Washington D.C. She has won awards in national and state juried shows since 1979 and has lectured and written on the subject of portraits as art. She has had solo shows at YorkArts, York, PA, the Phillips Museum, Lancaster, PA, and the Pennsylvania College of Technology. In 2005 she was in a two-person exhibit at the Brauer Museum of Art in Valparaiso, Indiana, and a 4-person show entitled "New Philadelphia Realists" at the Seraphin Gallery in Philadelphia. She is affiliated with the Andreeva Portrait Gallery and Academy, recently relocated to Salado, Texas. Her work has been featured in Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, and American Arts Quarterly. She taught painting and drawing at Messiah College for 20 years, and taught portrait and landscape painting for Gordon College's Orvieto, Italy program in '98, '03, '05, and '08 as well as for The Glen workshop, Image Summer Institute, Santa Fe, in '01 and '02. Her exhibition portraits as well as commissioned portraits have been widely collected. Catherine's portraits are known for their psychological insight and depth of character.
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