Mary Sipp Green
“As an artist [I’d] like to be the director of your eye, to make your eye move and be excited, to pass along [my] experience so it will also resonate in your soul.” ‒ Mary Sipp Green
American landscape painter Mary Sipp Green (1947‒), based in the bucolic Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, is superlative in her ability to invite the viewer into her emotional and atmospheric landscapes and seascapes. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Mary Sipp Green went on to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City before launching her career as a painter.
The intensely saturated colors in her works evoke an immediate sense of place and a privileged window on an intimate tableau. Sipp Green achieves an ethereal, nuanced quality to her paintings that imparts a refined, inimitable serenity. Many of the subjects she paints—salt marshes, barns, meadows, rivers, and the occasional cityscape—are captured in the beautiful light of dusk or a luminescent sunrise. The effect is dreamy yet grounded and emotive.
Sipp Green’s work is widely collected in prominent private and public collections, including the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, part of the Springfield Museum of Art quadrangle in Springfield, Massachusetts, where her large oil painting Twilight Falls in South County hangs in the museum’s entryway; and in The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio.
