Gerald Simcoe

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Gerald Simcoe is an avid horticulturist having studied at
​Longwood Gardens while working on Ambassador Annenberg's 13-acre Wynnewood Estate.

​He currently spends his time painting on Sanibel Island, FL, in his barn/studio in rural PA and on Cape Cod, and is a member of PAAM and the Salmagundi Club, NY.

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"The natural world has always been an inspiration and I am happiest when  amongst my plants.  They lead me down the unexpected path."
-- Gerald Simcoe


Education
  • The Art Students’ League of NY- Classical portraiture, still life and landscape painting in oil with Frank Mason, Robert Philipp, etc.
  • Robert Brackman’s Summer School in Madison Connecticut with William Schulz, 1980
  • Longwood Gardens - Studies in ornamental horticulture and floral design, while working as horticulturist on the estate of Ambassador Walter Annenberg - Philadelphia, PA.
  • Harpsichord - Temple Painter of Philadelphia    Piano - Eleanor Sokoloff -  Philadelphia, PA,  Denise Kahn - NYC​
 Exhibitions
  • Compendium Chroma @ Banana Factory Juried Show - Second Place Award - "Magnolia Pod Patterns"  oil/canvas, 4/3 - 5/7/20
  • Galanthus Gala Display "Cherubs and Cattails" @ Friends Meetinghouse, Downingtown, PA 3/7/20
  • Live portrait demonstration for Parkland Art League 1/14/20  Trexlertown, PA
  • Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center "getting off" erotic male drawing show 1/2 - 2/21, 2020
  • Bethlehem City Hall Rotunda "Artist Journey Retrospective, from 1979"  one man show 8/18 - 9/23, 2019
  • Newport Flower Show "Flowers at Rosecliff"  oil on canvas 6/21 - 23,  2019
  • "Tribute to H.D."  artistic display table of snowdrops on a theme of poet Hilda Doolittle's poem "One Flower" @ Galanthus Gala - Friends Meeting House Downingtown, PA  3/9, 2019
  • "David Nitschmann"  portrait of founder of Bethlehem for Nitschmann Public Middle School, dedication September 17, 2018
  • Members' Juried Exhibition - Salmagundi Club, NYC "Cupid Remembered" oil on canvas 4/30 - 5/18
  • Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce - Bucks Fever Juried Show "Black & White" "Carey" charcoal drawing   4/26 - 5/11, 2018 Bridges at Warwick - Jamison, PA
  • "Baroque Interpretations of Life"  - a one man show @ RE:find Gallery Allentown, PA  4/19 - 5/31/18
  • NextFab "Spring" and "Jonathan" pastels from DCAD drawing marathon 4/6 - 4/30/18
  • Naked in New Hope "Steve, Showering" oil on canvas - juried show, 9 - 10/17  Sidetracks Art Gallery
  • Central Bucks County Chamber of Commerce Juried Show "Who Am I?" self portrait -  "Gardening in the Age of Zika" April - May, 2017 at the Wellness Center of Warrington, PA
  • Rago Auction -  live art auction benefitting Lambertville, NJ Historical Society, February 11, 2017
  •  Longwood Gardens, Bulb-A-Mania  lecture - "Bulbs In Art" with exhibition of my paintings of how bulbs  have influenced my work as an  artist.  April 30, 2016
  •  Delaware College of Art and Design Gallery show - a pastel and an oil portrait of Brian - April, 2016
  • Truro Council on Aging - one man gallery show of many Cape Cod themed paintings - January, 2015
  • 36th Annual Naples International Art Fair - Naples,  FL  juried - February, 2015
  • Sanibel Art Festival - Sanibel Island, FL   February, 2015
  • Provincetown Art Association and Museum 12 x 12 show - summer 2015
  • Schoolhouse Gallery Show of portraits in the one room schoolhouse where my grandmother attended in the 1920s Albrightsville, PA  -   October 24, 2015
  • 400th Anniversary of the Dutch Discovery of Manhattan – “Dutch Influence in Horticulture” – 3’ x 6’ panel  in the panorama – Maritime MuZEEum - Vlissingen, NL - 2010
  • Artsbridge  at Riverun Gallery: Honorable Mention – “Fulper Pot with Orchids” - 2008
  • Phillips Mill Juried Show: New Hope, PA –  “Pottery and Pears” - 2007
  • Non-Members Juried Show, Salmagundi Club, NY – 2007  “Rob Conti with Peter”  Forbes Magazine Award
  • Art Students’ League Juried Members Show- Oct. 2004, “Rob Conti with Peter” was chosen by jurors David Findlay, Maxwell Davidson II and Fran Bradford.
  • Group show - Lyme Art Association - Old Lyme, CT 2004
  • Canter Fitzgerald Gallery group show, Haverford College, PA  2003
  • Various shows with the Bethlehem Palette Club at the Banana Factory including the Bethlehem Steel paint-out.
  • The International Orchid Show of Greater NY at the Wintergarden (now Brookfield Place)  Wall St. 1991
  • Southern Allegheny’s Museum of Art; “Nature Morte- The Museum Considers the Still Life” – “Still Life with Bagels” was featured as front piece - 1986.
Collections 
  • City of Bethlehem, PA Town Hall Collection - "Progression of Steel Stacks"  oil painting 
  • Nitschmann Middle School - Bethlehem, PA - portrait of founder David Nitschmann
  • The Estate of Annie Fischer - Budapest, Hungary / Floral
  • Northampton County Courthouse, PA – Master Harry Blair / Portrait
  • Irv Davis – Clayton-Davis Inc. St. Louis, MO / Portrait + Floral
  • St. Clement’s Episcopal Church -  Philadelphia, PA / Portrait of Fr. Peter Laister
  • Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation, NYC – permanent collection / Portrait of Carlos
Awards
  • Award of Merit “The Prodigal Son” Object Project 2009 – Salmagundi Club
  • Artsbridge Juried Show2008 – “Fulper Pot with Orchids” Honorable Mention
  • Forbes Magazine Award Annual Non-Members’ Show 2007  – Salmagundi Club
  • National Capitol Orchid Society: Best in Show “The Orchid Breakfast” 1992
  • American Orchid Society Bronze Trophy for Best Exhibition design, 1991
  • AOS Certificate of Botanical Recognition for Dendrobium keithii “Suzette”, first time  species recognition for which the artist named the plant after his late cousin
Speaking Engagements
  • National Arboretum, Washington, DC - topic: “Inwood, a Year in Bloom”. One year of vignettes from the late, Honorable Ambassador Walter Annenberg’s Estate on the Main Line - Philadelphia, PA
  • Garden Clubs; National Capitol Area Federated Garden Clubs at the National Arboretum, Fairfax County G. C. VA, Charles County G. C. MD,  Bethlehem and Allentown G. C. PA
Etc.
  • Piano recital: Lang Concert Hall - Swarthmore, PA - Fall Celebration - annually, since 11/06
Affiliations
  • Member:  Salmagundi Club of NY, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Garden Writers Association, Truro School For The Arts At Castle Hill, Artsbridge, NJ
  • Portrait Society of America – Pennsylvania State Ambassador 2004 - 2008
Click here to download my résumé
simcoegallery@gmail.com • 610-262-8427 • 1925 Main St. Northampton, PA  18067
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