"Looking Westward" by Kathy Fieramosca

* Original watercolor //   Estimated value = $300

* Total dimensions (unframed) = 6 x 9.25 inches

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Artist Bio

Kathy Krantz Fieramosca is a fine arts painter working in watercolor, graphite, silverpoint, and oil in a representational manner. Her paintings hang in various private and public collections. Public collections include Montefiore Hospital in New York City, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

Ms. Krantz Fieramosca is currently represented by Portraits, Inc. in New York City, Sewell Fine Portraiture, by Francesca Anderson Fine Art/Portraits North in Lexington, MA, and Gallery 71 in NYC. She has exhibited at the Mark Humphrey Gallery in Southampton, NY; The National Academy of Design, The National Arts Club, The Broome Street Gallery, The Salmagundi Art Club, The Society of Illustrators, and The Newington-Cropsey Foundation Gallery, Hastings-on-the-Hudson, NY.

Memberships include the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, The American Society of Portrait Artists, and The New York Society of Portrait Artists. She was awarded the Col. Michel Jacobs Memorial Fund Prize in 1994, the Mary Hinman Carter Prize in 1995, the Lelia Gardin Sawyer Memorial Award in 1996 from the American Artists Professional League, the New Jersey Watercolor Society Award in 2002, the Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Medal for Watercolor in 2003, the Art Times Award in 2004, the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Award in 2004, The Margaret Dole Portrait Award in 2005, the Charlotte Dunwidde Memorial Award in 2005, the Dr. Ralph Weiler Memorial Prize Fund-1st Place for Drawing in 2006 and a Premier Grant Award from the Council of the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island in 2006.

Ms. Krantz Fieramosca is a former illustrator who worked in the advertising, editorial, and publishing industries for fifteen years. Her client list had included J. Walter Thompson Advertising, Young and Rubicam, Kenyon and Eckhart, Family Circle Magazine, Womanʼs World Magazine, Parentʼs Magazine, Readerʼs Digest, Viking Press, Good Housekeeping Magazine, Essence Magazine, and Inside Sports Magazine.

Born in Ohio, Ms. Krantz Fieramosca graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Columbus College of Art and Design in 1975. In addition, she studied at the School of Visual Arts, the Art Students League of New York, the Grand Central Art Academy, the National Academy of Design, the Drawing Academy of the Atlantic, the New York Academy of Art, and privately with artists: Daniel E. Greene, Michael Aviano, and Jon DeMartin.