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Dorothy Eisner's artistic career spanned seven decades. From her Greenwich Village studio, she traveled widely, including to the American West, Mexico, and Europe. However, it was her discovery in 1960 of Cranberry Island, an enchanting small island off Mount Desert and its vibrant community of artists, that was the beginning of Eisner's passion for Maine – a passion that lasted for 24 summers, until the very end of her life. Eisner relished involving herself in the local art scene. In New York, she exhibited broadly and worked tirelessly to further the careers of her fellow artists. Eisner's time on Cranberry was no different. She befriended and worked with many artists, including William Kienbusch, Carl Nelson, and John Heliker, all of whom summered on Cranberry Island.
What you see in Painting My World is Eisner's evolution from a social realist who studied under Boardman Robinson, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League in the 1920s through the Abstract Expressionist influence of Jack Tworkov, with whom she studied after World War II, to her blossoming as a painterly realist in the 1970s and 1980s. It was quite a journey and one well worth retaking.
Eisner's paintings are inspired by her travels and reflect her reaction to the locales, people and activities that surrounded her. In many cases, her subject matter is so seemingly mundane that the viewer is startled by her choice. Desks, chairs, windows, a towel rack, fish and fishing gear, people playing cards or croquet, children with a garden hose — all become aesthetically worthy subjects as seen through her eyes. With her masterful compositional skills, her fluid application of paint, and her expressionistic use of bold colors, Eisner creates compelling art from these everyday scenes and items.
