Amaster plein air painter, Rosalie Nadeau’s representational paintings are influenced by both Realist and Impressionist traditions. She balances powerful use of color with her classical understanding of form. A popular instructor versatile in both pastel and oil, she shares her enthusiasm conducting intensive on-location workshops as well as in the studio to focus on light on the still life and the figure. Her inspired teaching emphasizes light’s luminous quality.
Considering painting an ongoing study, Rosalie participates in master workshops often. She attended the Plein Air Painters of America symposium in 2003 and 2004, painting with George Strickland, John Budicin, Ralph Oberg, Skip Whitcomb, Ken Backhaus, Ned Meuller and Lynn Gertenbach. She has studied with Sally Strand, Ken Auster, Don Demers, Joseph McGurl, David Lussier, Lois Griffel, Albert Handell, and Charles Sovek. At the Maryland Institute, College of Art Rosalie earned her BFA in painting in 1970.
Nadeau earned signature memberships in the Pastel Society of America, the Connecticut Pastel Society and the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod. She has won awards at PSA’s national annual Pastels Only Exhibitions and she wins awards consistently at the PPSCC‘s national Pastels Only on Cape Cod exhibitions at the Creative Arts Center and at the Cahoon Museum of American Art, where she holds memberships as well as with the following: Cape Cod Museum of Art, the Connecticut, North Florida and Maryland Pastel Societies, and the Cape Cod and Provincetown Art Associations. She is a founding member of “21 in Truro” and the Cape Cod Plein Air Painters as well as the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod.
Rosalie Nadeau’s vibrant paintings illustrate the internationally distributed art books: The Pastel Artist’s Bible by Claire Waite Brown, Painting the Impressionist Landscape by Lois Griffel, Pastel School by Hazel Harrison, The Pastel Painter’s Solution Book by David Cuthbert, and her painting, "Thursday’s Lilies" is the cover art for Painting Shapes and Edges by Hazel Harrison. She has appeared in numerous regional and local magazine publications and in feature articles in American Artist, October 1992 and in Cape Cod Life 1994, 1996, April 2003, and in an extensive feature article in June 2001 and most recently in another extensive feature article in The Pastel Journal in February 2007.
Her work appears in corporate collections: F. Schumacher in New York, the main offices of Hale and Dorr, Liberty Mutual International, and Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank. She shows pastel paintings at Left Bank in Wellfleet, and will show oils as a guest artist at Trees Place, Orleans, this spring on Cape Cod. Nadeau’s paintings are collected privately nationwide and abroad. She and her husband live in Orleans, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.
Contact: rosalie@rosalienadeau.com
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank
Cape Museum of Fine Arts Permanent Collection
Fidelity International, Boston
Hale and Dorr, Boston
Liberty Mutual International, Boston
F. Schumacher, New York
EXHIBITIONS
The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod: Self Portrait Cape Cod at Cotuit Center for the Arts
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, “Visions & Voices of the Outer Cape”
PPSCC Signature Members at Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA
Cahoon Museum of American Art, “Both Sides Now”
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Twenty-One in Truro
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Signature Members of Pastel Painters Soc. of Cape Cod
Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Signature Members of Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod
Wynne/Falconer Gallery, Solo show
Truro Historical Society Museum, “21 in Truro”
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, solo show
Cahoon Museum of American Art, “21 in Truro”
Academy of Performing Arts, Orleans, solo show
Arts Center at Southborough, Southborough, MA trio show
Cummaquid Fine Arts, Barnstable, MA, solo shows
Helen Bumpus Gallery, Duxbury, MA, solo show
Left Bank Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, solo shows
Schoolhouse Gallery, North Truro, MA trio shows
PUBLICATIONS
The Pastel Artist’s Bible by Claire Waite Brown
The Pastel Painter’s Solution Book by David Cuthbert, North Light Books, 1996
Shapes and Edges by Hazel Harrison, Quarto Publishing, 1996
Pastel School by Hazel Harrison, Quarto Publishing, 1996
Painting the Impressionist Landscape by Lois Griffel, Watson Guptill, 1994
FEATURE ARTICLES
The Pastel Journal February 2007, “The Light of the Land”
Cape Cod Life May 2003, “Rosalie Nadeau’s Artistic Evolution”
Cape Cod Life June 2001, “Lasting Impressions…Rosalie Nadeau…Landmark Pastelist”
Pastel Artist International May/June/July 2000, “Master Pastelist, USA”
Pastel Journal March/April 2000, “Pastels 100”
Antiques and Arts October 1997, “Plein Air Painters”
Cape Cod Life 1996 Annual Guide, “The Secret Garden Tour”
Cape Cod Life September 1994, “Capturing the Cape”
American Artist October 1992, “Two for the Road: Painting on Location”
REPRESENTED BY
Left Bank Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Wynne/Falconer Gallery, Chatham, MA
TEACHING
Plein air and still life workshops: Boca Grande Art Alliance, the Cape Cod, Falmouth, Foxboro, and Franklin Art Associations, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, Maryland and Vermont Pastel Societies, Portsmouth Arts
Guild
Cahoon Museum of American Art, still life workshop
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, Monomoy Island plein air workshop
Chatham Creative Arts Center, faculty
Demonstrations for: Attleboro Museum, Cape Cod, Provincetown and Orleans Art Associations, Falmouth Artist’s
Guild, Harwich Guild of Artists, Sennelier, Creative Arts Center, and Connecticut Pastel Society
EDUCATION
Independent study with: Ken Auster, Sally Strand, Don Demers, Cynthia Packard, Don Stone, Albert Handell,
Joseph McGurl, and Charles Sovek
PAPA Workshop/Seminars 2003, 2004
Cape Cod School of Art with Lois Griffel
Maryland Institute College of Art, BFA cum laude
MEMBERSHIPS
Founding member: 21 in Truro, Cape Cod Plein Air Painters
Signature memberships: The Pastel Society of America, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod and Connecticut
Pastel Society
Maryland Pastel, North Florida Pastel, and the International Association of Pastel Societies
Cape Cod and Provincetown Art Associations
Cape Museum of Fine Arts
Cahoon Museum of American Art
AWARDS
Diehl Foundation Awards
Cahoon Museum of American Art: 1st Prize Oil Trustee Show
Orleans Bicentennial Exhibition: 1st Prize Pastel and Best in Show
Pastel Journal, 3rd Place, Landscape
Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod: 2004, 2003 Best in Show, 2nd Place, Schmincke Award, Richeson Award,
Daler-Rowney Award, Honorable Mention, Award of Merit
Pastel Society of America: Janet T. Royce Award, American Artist Magazine Award
Numerous awards for pastels and oils from:
Cape Cod Art Association
Connecticut Pastel Society
Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA
Duxbury Art Association
Paintings by Rosalie Nadeau
"East of Asa's" 9x12, Oil
"Tenders at Bridge Street" 14x18, Oil
"Casting on the Cove" 14x18, Oil
"Long Afternoon" 16x20, Oil
"Rocky Cove" 18x24,
"Sun Catchers" 10x12, Oil
"Tender at Point of Rocks" 16x20, Oil
"The Moors" 12x18, Pastel
"The Murrelet" 9x12, Oil
"To Snow Shore" 14x18, Oil
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“Painting connects me intimately with nature. I delight in portraying her brilliant intensity in the pure pigment of pastel and oil.
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As light colors life, I am inspired to paint...to create PRESENCE, a tactile feeling, a sense of specific time and space where Light is the subject.”
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