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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.
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.
"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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Piano recital: Lang Concert Hall - Swarthmore, PA - Fall Celebration - annually, since 11/06
- 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