Frederic Leons @ The Philadelphia Museum of Art
February, 22, 2005: Philadelphia Museum of Art
While my friend and I were waiting to see the Dali exhibition, we stumbled across an artist that neither one of us had ever heard of before, Belgian Symbolist, Leon Frederic.
The first image featured here is from Frederic’s “Four Seasons: Fall”. The series portrays the four seasons symbolically with four child angels of Spiring, Summer, Fall and Winter.
Frederic’s incredible workmanship and lyrical visualization has made him a new favorite of ours.
The Seasons by Frederiic Leons @ The Philadelphia Museum of Art
In all of my years of art history somehow this genius was never mentioned. Perhaps it is the new focus on realism and a reexamination of movements outside of modernism that has brought Frederic to the surface after years of obscurity. It is great to see realism and abstraction and fantasy all getting their own fair recognition.
The second image is from the same series and features Summer. We have not shown the other images from this series because we want you to go and visit them in person at the museum.
You can visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Website Here.
You can learn more about the artist on Whitford Fine Art’s Biography Page on Leon Frederic.
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