When we went to galleries and collections, we were looking at pieces of art that are displayed and meant to be sold or is meant to benefit the owner financially. As surprising as it may seem, there are artists who make art because they want to and do not sell even when the art is highly regarded.

Janet K. Ruttenberg is one of these artists. In the article below, Lisa W. Foderaro writes about this amazing painter. Ruttenberg has painted beautiful pictures of Central Park, in Central Park, but has never sold a single one of those paintings. Now, at the age of 82, she is allowing her 17 paintings to be displayed in a show called “Picturing Central Park,” at the Museum of the City of New York City.

I find it amazing that Ruttenberg has the patience to create this large paintings and to not have a large show for them until now. She painted for the sake of painting and it certainly worth seeing. I wonder how the paintings were kept in such good condition since she painted them on grass and stepped on it.

It’s an interesting read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/nyregion/the-painter-janet-ruttenberg-likens-the-sheep-meadow-to-a-cathedral.html?_r=0