IDA MARX
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 Tree on the Mountain I oil on canvas 18x21 sold |
 Red Field in Hurley oil on canvas 14x18 |
 Tree on Mead's Mountain oil on canvas 16x20 |
 House in Olive oil on canvas 12x16 sold |
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 East 17th Street oil on canvas 9x12 |
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| Ida Marx grew up in New York City. She holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has also studied at the Art Students League, and Pratt Institute in New York. Ida has studied privately with Eleanor Lockspeiser and Mary Anna Goetz. As an illustrator and comic artist, Ida has had her work published in various publications, including the New Yorker, Simon & Schuster, and Grolier publications. She now concentrates exclusively on oil painting. Ida has lived in New York City, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Washington, DC and has recently returned to her favorite places, the Catskills in New York, and New York City, where she focuses on painting landscapes and cityscapes. Her work has been exhibited in the Woodstock Artists Association, the Emily Hoysradt Gallery in Kingston, NY, the Bank of America in Woodstock, NY, the Master Eagle Gallery and the SVA Gallery in New York City, and a group exhibition, Portraits of Famous Women Eating Breakfast, which originated in Germany and toured in various cities throughout Europe. |
My paintings are inspired by the beauty I see in the world around me – either the natural world, or the manmade. I love to find the compositions that nature has created, and capture them. I use the subject matter of my paintings to experiment with composition, texture, color, form and space. I work to express mood - sometimes joy, sometimes melancholy, often quiet.
Often my paintings convey the subtle changes in light, color and scenery that take place during the changing seasons. Some works express the complex interplay of trees, sky, mountains and maybe a barn, while other paintings use more simple subject matter, such as a lone tree against a stark December sky on a snow-specked hill. I use the subject matter of my work – whether it's an abandoned building or a landscape, to convey my emotion and express a point of view. | |
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