• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Painting Perceptions

  • Home
  • Workshops
  • Advertise
  • About
    • About Painting Perceptions
    • Contact Us
    • Links
  • Articles
    • Posts Archive List
    • Great Reads
    • Sounding Technical
    • Art Politics
    • Art Books
  • Interviews
    • Featured Interviews
    • A Question or Two
    • notable painters

MYSTERY AND RAPTURE: LANDSCAPES BY FOUR

September 1, 2017 By Larry Groff Leave a Comment

By Tina Engels

Painting Perceptions would like to offer the opportunity to view the Italian show Mystery and Rapture: Landscapes by Four, curated by William Bailey, to our readers in the form of a virtual exhibition. The following images present paintings and installation shots from the opening at Civitella Raineri on August 12. Photos are by Langdon Quin.

(ED. PLEASE NOTE: Due to an editing error a portion of the quote from William Bailey discussing Langdon Quin was omitted. It has now been corrected. We regret this error and apologize for this oversight. Also, you can now view a pdf of the show’s publicity bulletin from this link)

The Italian exhibition, Mystery and Rapture: Landscapes by Four, was hosted by the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in the Castle Gallery, and runs from August 12 through September 1 2017. The artist shown were Mario Fallani, Marco Fallani, Dan Gustin and Langdon Quin.

The Director of Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Dana Prescott, maintains an artistic and cultural mission to host exhibitions that present the cross-cultural mix that is the embodiment of the Foundation.


Mystery and Rapture: Landscapes by Four
, was curated by the acclaimed painter William Bailey, Professor Emeritus, Yale School of Art, member of the National Academy of Design and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Professor Bailey conveys the resonance of different cultural spheres that results in and is intended to mediate the confluence of artworks, cultural exchanges, ideas and pictorial sensibilities. The underlying concept of this exhibit was to host a landscape show that highlighted the works of two Americans and two Italians. The American painters Dan Gustin (b.1948) and Langdon Quin (b.1948) have had a longstanding attraction to Umbria and have portrayed the resplendent landscapes there. The Italian painters, Mario Fallani (1934-2015) and his son, Marco Fallani (b.1965) have spent many years studying and teaching in the United States.

William Bailey

Dan Gustin is an Associate Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute, a member of the National Academy of Art and Design in New York and teaches at the International Center for the Arts, Monte Castello di Vibio during the summer sessions. Langdon Quin is a Professor Emeritus of Painting and Drawing at the University of New Hampshire and is also a member of the National Academy of Art and Design in New York.

William Bailey eloquently describes the work of Quin and Gustin and their distinct relationships to the Italian landscape:

“Dan Gustin and Langdon Quin are American painters.  They live and work in Umbria several months every year.  Gustin, near Todi and Quin, outside Gubbio.  Each has found challenge and meaning in this Landscape so often painted throughout history.  They bring their own histories, as did Claude and Corot in their time.  They paint with conviction and imagination, shunning the mannerisms which conventionally assure contemporaneity. Gustin and Quin share a subject but find completely different content….Dan Gustin’s landscapes are typically large-scale, and executed entirely within the setting portrayed in his paintings. Using a full range of vigorously applied color and tone, he fills his canvases with the space, light and atmosphere which characterize each particular place. Gustin’s painterly presence and mastery are his own, but one can sense the extravagant Courbet lurking nearby – urging him on.

Langdon Quin also paints directly from nature, though he often continues to develop his work later in the studio. He is a classicist by inclination, approaching painting with deliberation and a desire for harmony. Full of surprising spatial shifts and vivid colors that are rarely naturalistic, his work achieves a spirituality that has more to do with Piero della Francesca than traditional plein air painting. Quin is an artist whose sensitivity and responsiveness to nature give his work a timelessness worthy of its subject, evoking fifteenth century Italian paintings with a contemporary imagination.”

As a Fulbright scholar in the early 1960s, Mario Fallani lived in Chicago where he taught at the Art Institute of Chicago, and then later in Pittsburgh and New York, where he taught at Pratt Institute of New York and the School of Visual Arts. Marco lived and worked in San Francisco from 1986-1994, receiving his MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts. Marco Fallani currently teaches sculpture at Syracuse University’s Florence Program and is a Visiting Critic at the Studio Arts Cultural Institute (SACI) in Florence.

The Civitalla Raineri website notes that “Artists Mario Fallani and his son Marco Klee Fallani carry on a long Florentine tradition of fathers and sons working with a shared vision and aesthetic kinship, following in the footsteps of their illustrious Renaissance antecedents, Domenico and Ridolfo Ghirlandiao, Filippo and Filippino Lippi, and Bertoluccio and Lorenzo Ghiberti.”

Marco Fallani has exhibited both paintings and sculptures, winning the distinguished painting prize from the city of Lucca. He designed the sets for Teatro Del Maggio Musicale Florentino production of the operatic version of Maurice Sendak’s book Where the Wild Things Are and for Luca Ronconi’s production of Lo Specchio.

The exhibition, Mystery and Rapture…. examines the nature by which each of these artists find a path to observation, perception and artistic interpretation of the Italian landscape, all the while absorbing that which is the essence of the Italian scene that, despite the exuberance, sucks them in and implores them to risk it all.

The following works were a part of the Mystery and Rapture: Landscapes by Four, Italian exhibition at the CIVITELLA RANIERI FOUNDATION, Civitella Ranieri, Italy
www.civitella.org

Langdon Quin, <em>Curva II</em>,-o-c, 43x45cm,2016 Langdon Quin, <em>Mesola da Silvano</em>, o-c, 35.5x71cm, 2005 Langdon Quin,<em> Mocaiana</em>, oil on canvas board, 35x45cm, 2009 Langdon Quin, <em>Pioppi, Pian' di Gubbio</em>, 19.5x29.5cm, 2000 Langdon Quin, <em>Towards Montelovesco</em>, o-c, 50x35cm, 2015 Langdon Quin, <em>Towards The Appenines,</em> o-canvasboard, 35x45cm,2005 Langdon Quin, <em>Under San Benedetto,</em> oil on canvasboard,-30x40cm,-2006 Dan Gustin Dan Gustin, <em>Looking toward Cassamace</em> Dan Gustin, <em>Orte Morning</em> Dan Gustin, <em>The Leaning Oak of Cassamace</em> Dan Gustin, <em>Doglio Sunset</em> Dan Gustin,<em> Doglio in Late November</em> Dan Gustin Langdon Quin, study for <em>Towards Pinewoods'</em>, oc, 45x46cm, 2008 Langdon Quin, study for <em>Mte Acuto</em>, oc-38x46c-2006 Langdon Quin, study for <em>Winter-Clear</em>, oil canvasboard, 40x30cm, 2012 study-for-'Sopra-Baldelli',-oc,-40 study-for-'Home-from-Rome',oc,40x40cm,-2015 study-for-'da-Pesce-Nano',-oc,-41x46cm,-2007 study-for-'Cimitero-I',-oc,-40x40cm,-2014 Mario Fallani Mario Fallani Mario Fallani Mario Fallani Mario Fallani Mario Fallani Mario Fallani Marco Klee Fallani Marco Klee Fallani Marco Klee Fallani Marco Klee Fallani Marco Klee Fallani

Filed Under: landscape painting, Reviews

Donate to Painting Perceptions


Donations to Painting Perceptions helps this site greatly, please consider your gift today.

Previous Post: « Shifting Semblances, An Interview with Tamie Beldue
Next Post: Expressionism Revisited »

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Donate to Painting Perceptions


Donations to Painting Perceptions helps this site greatly, please consider your gift today.

Subscribe

Subscribe to the Painting Perceptions Mailing List

* indicates required

ADS

A unique opportunity to work at the prestigious Ballinglen Arts Foundation. for a select group of nine artists to spend nine days in rural Ireland drawing and painting.

Click for more information and registration»

Painting in Tuscany, Italy 2025 with Dean Fisher

September 8- 16, 2025 and September 16- 23, 2025

Dean Fisher Italy Workshop Click for details and registration»

Popular Reads

INTERVIEWS:
Lennart Anderson
Gerry Bergstein
Robert Birmelin
Lois Dodd
Stanley Lewis (two parts)
A Frank Galuszka
Dan Gustin
Vincent Desiderio
Susannah Phillips
Ann Gale
Elizabeth Higgins
Diana Horowitz
Duane Keiser
Susan Jane Walp
Grant Drumheller
Caren Canier
Jane Culp
Lani Irwin
Alan Feltus
Langdon Quin
Julian Kreimer
Israel Hershberg
Yael Scalia
Michael Tompkins
Sigal Tsabari
Gillian Pederson-Krag
Stuart Shils
Harold Reddicliffe
Robert Dukes
Eric Aho
Kyle Staver
Alex Kanevsky
John Dubrow
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
Memories of Philip Guston
Auden and Faulkner in the Work of Stanley Lewis
Ken Kewley, Writings on Color
Walter Tandy Murch
Gretna Campbell
Louis Finkelstien, On Painterly
VIDEO REVIEWS, MISC
“The Art of Gregory Gillespie: In Conversation, Simon Dinnerstein and Peggy Gillespie”
“Patrick George – A Likeness”
Morandi’s Dust
Lennart Anderson Slide Talk

Landscapes

  • Slayer of Windmills meets the Devil at the Crossroads
  • Review of Our Kids Play Together: A Show of Paintings by Elise Schweitzer and Laura Vahlberg
  • STANLEY LEWIS – TRADITION AND THE INDIVIDUAL TALENT
  • Interview with Cathy Diamond
  • Interview with Kathleen Dunn Jacobs

Still Life Painters

  • Review of “CONVERSATIONS: 23 Interviews with Still Life Artists” by Zeuxis
  • Interview with Marie Riccio
  • Interview with Paula Heisen
  • Interview with John Lee
  • Elizabeth Geiger’s, Borrowed Rhythms, at the Gross McCleaf

Figure Painters

  • Interview with Barbara Grossman
  • Interview with Bruce Lieberman
  • Interview with Tony Serio
  • A Conversation With Philip Geiger
  • Visible Influence: Janet Niewald and Wilbur Niewald

Footer

More Selections from the Archive

Interview with Susannah Phillips

Susannah Phillips was raised in London and attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Her paintings have been in many solo and group exhibitions in London, New York and Provincetown, MA, and are included in numerous private collections. In 2014 and 2017, she was awarded the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Residency. The artist lives and ...

Read More

Conversation with Lois Dodd

Lois Dodd has been painting her everyday surroundings for sixty years. Her current exhibition, from February 26 through April 4, 2015 at the Alexandre Gallery in NYC shows twenty-four recent small-scaled paintings that depict familiar motifs such as gardens, houses, interiors and views from windows. Dodd, now eighty-seven, is an iconic figure of ...

Read More

Interview with Ann Gale

by Larry Groff I am honored that Ann Gale agreed to this telephone interview and thank her greatly for being so generous with her time and attention with sharing thoughts about her art and process. Ann Gale is a leading American figurative painter living in Seattle. Her portraits were shown alongside other leading painters of the figure ...

Read More

See More;

Painting Perceptions was started in 2009 by Larry Groff to promote the ideas, practice and experience of painters working from observation in a modernist vein from around the world through interviews, essays, videos and community. It later evolved to include imagination-based and abstract painting as well.More Info →

Copyright © 2025 Painting Perceptions on the Foodie Pro Theme