Ed Stitt
Ed Stitt's agenda has consistently been to select and present for our delectation the moments of glory and beauty which reside in the mundane. Elements such as architectural detailing, intricate ironwork, or the play of light across a surface are carefully rendered by Stitt with vibrant color and constructed brushwork, building to moments of architectural epiphany.
Stitt uses light and color to transform commonplace urban environments. He paints alleys and buildings near his studio, in Boston’s Fenway Studios building. The paintings glory in a celebration of architectural detail and the overlapping decline and renewal of city surfaces. In addition to his on-site painting of urban landscapes, Stitt also works in the countryside, where towering trees and open fields make for compositions quite unlike his tight city spaces. I n these paintings we see the painter Stitt might be if he weren’t so in love with Boston’s byways.
His work is included in numerous corporate and private collections and has been shown in exhibitions reviewing realist and landscape painting at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and at the Boston Athenaeum.
Jamaica Pond Willow Isle, Morning, 2019-21, oil on canvas, 60x60"> Inquire Mass Ave and Marlborough Diptych, 2022, oil on linen, 24x60"> Inquire Quarantine Self Portrait, 2020, oil on linen, 24x18"> Inquire Vista Through Trees, 2022, oil on linen, 12x16" Sold> Inquire Two Summer Larz Trees, Large, 2021, oil on linen, 24x24" Sold> Inquire Rose Garden Trees, 2021, oil on panel, 9x12"> Inquire Portrait of Zoe, 2021, oil on canvas, 14x11"> Inquire Two Afternoon Larz Trees, Sunny, 2022, oil on canvas, 20x20" Sold> Inquire Rainy Larz City, 2021, oil on linen, 16x18"> Inquire City Through the Haze, 2021, oil on canvas, 10x12"> Inquire Larz Hill With City Beyond, 2022, oil on panel, 14x26" Sold> Inquire Palette Knife Self Portrait, 2019, oil on panel, 9x12"> Inquire Autumn Sunny Trees, Larz Morning, 2020, oil on canvas, 10x8"> Inquire Fenway Bridge Diptych, PM, 2021, oil on canvas, 12x30"> Inquire Pink Still Life, 2021, oil on canvas, 8x8"> Inquire Fenway Bridge, Morning, 2021, oil on panel, 9x12"> Inquire Autumn Trees, Larz, 2020, oil on panel, 6x6"> Inquire Self Portrait without Glasses, 2021, oil on canvas, 14x8"> Inquire Tree on Larz Hill, Sunny, 2020, oil on canvas, 8x10"> Inquire Larz Vista NW, 2021, oil on canvas, 8x10"> Inquire Larz Hill, Paper Sketch, 2022, oil on gessoed paper, 7.5x11.5"> Inquire Palette Knife Pink Trees, 2022, oil on gessoed panel, 5x7"> Inquire Larz Tree, Misty, 2022, oil on canvas, 6x8" Sold> Inquire Larz NW Through Three Trees, 2022, oil on canvas, 12x18"> Inquire JP Willow from the West, Hazy, 2020, oil on canvas, 24x20" Sold> Inquire Public Alley 414, 2019, oil on linen, 20x24" Sold> Inquire Victory Gardens Bridge, 2018-19, oil on canvas, 12x16"> Inquire Jillian's from Under Bowker, 2015, oil on linen, 24x36" Sold> Inquire Boston Check Cashing, 2018, oil on canvas, 12x26"> Inquire Onion and Pear, 2018, oil on canvas panel, 9x12" Sold> Inquire Willow on Jamaica Pond, Hazy Morning, 2019, oil on canvas, 10x12" Sold> Inquire Hamilton Flower Boxes, 2016-18, oil on canvas, 24x24"> Inquire Spring Reservoir Trees, 2016-17, oil on canvas, 12x20" Sold> Inquire Clouds Over Building, 2015, oil on canvas, 20x20" Sold> Inquire Beacon Hill Alley Apartment, 2014-17, oil on linen, 18x12" Sold> Inquire Bartlett Pear, 2018, oil on panel, 9x12" Sold> Inquire Hemenway From Burbank, 2018, oil on linen, 16x20" Sold> Inquire Grapefruit, 2018, oil on canvas panel, 9x12" Sold> Inquire Hamilton Fire Escape, 2018, oil on linen, 14x18"> Inquire 54 the Fenway, 2013, oil on canvas, 24x30" Sold> Inquire Oasis Afternoon, 2012, oil on canvas, 30x70" Sold> Inquire Toby's Still Life, 2013, oil on canvas, 24x30"> Inquire Fenway A.M. , 2014, oil on canvas, 16x38"> Inquire Ernesto Riff, 2014, oil on canvas, 18x14"> Inquire Temple of Love, 2012, oil on canvas, 12x24"> Inquire Gnarled Tree, Sunny, 2014, oil on canvas, 14x12"> Inquire Gnarled Tree, Side, 2008, oil on canvas, 8x6" Sold> Inquire Jamaal's Grandmother's Alley, 2010, oil on canvas, 41.5x31.5" Sold> Inquire
Ed Stitt
Ed Stitt's agenda has consistently been to select and present for our delectation the moments of glory and beauty which reside in the mundane. Elements such as architectural detailing, intricate ironwork, or the play of light across a surface are carefully rendered by Stitt with vibrant color and constructed brushwork, building to moments of architectural epiphany.
Stitt uses light and color to transform commonplace urban environments. He paints alleys and buildings near his studio, in Boston’s Fenway Studios building. The paintings glory in a celebration of architectural detail and the overlapping decline and renewal of city surfaces. In addition to his on-site painting of urban landscapes, Stitt also works in the countryside, where towering trees and open fields make for compositions quite unlike his tight city spaces. I n these paintings we see the painter Stitt might be if he weren’t so in love with Boston’s byways.
His work is included in numerous corporate and private collections and has been shown in exhibitions reviewing realist and landscape painting at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and at the Boston Athenaeum.