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GALE FULTON ROSS (1947 - ) Casablanca.
Mixed media on panel, 1984. 825x597 mm; 32½x23½ inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower left.
Provenance: private collection, Florida.
Casablanca was completed the same year Fulton Ross had her artist-in-residence in Bellagio, Italy, where she produced an exhibition for the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio. Collaged vingettes from the namesake Hollywood film are intersected with abstract acrylic strokes that portray a dream-like scene.
Painter Gale Fulton Ross is known for portraiture, printmaking, and sculpture. Active since the early 1980s, she trained extensively and cites her influences as Rembrandt, Elizabeth Catlett, and Samella Lewis. She studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA, and continued her education at the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco, where she studied fine art and art history. In addition to her formal education, Fulton Ross also studied under the guidance of such artists as Melvin Johnson, Cleveland Bellow, and Pierre Parsus. She developed a reputation early in her career as a portrait artist, and has created likenesses of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Justice Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, Arthur Ashe, and Governor Michael Dukakis, among others.
