Biography from The Cheryl Newby Gallery:
| Born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1936, Joseph Cave attended the University of Georgia (Athens, GA) where he studied painting from 1954-58. He went on to attend the San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco, CA) and received a BFA in Fine Arts in painting in 1962, and a Master of Arts in 1964 from San Francisco State University.
Cave has taught at several institutions including The Memphis Academy of Art, Southwestern at Memphis, San Francisco Art Institute, and San Francisco State University. Though trained as an abstract expressionist, he is inspired by early landscape artists, American scene painters, and French Impressionists.
Cave primarily works in oils creating dramatic landscapes, harborscapes, and still-life paintings. He continues to create etchings, often choosing floral still life or views of travels as subject matter. Recently Cave has begun working in egg tempera on artist’s panel for smaller paintings. He always prepares the surface before painting, making his own gesso with rabbit skin glue, titanium white pigment, and marble dust. Color, bold line, and shadow are woven together in each landscape painting culminating in “a place” where every viewer wants to be or has been.
It is likely that time spent in Portugal, where he lived for a number of years with his wife Jessica, and two children, Adam, and Sarah, had great influence on his painting. He has since returned to his native South Carolina where he resides in Georgetown in a lovely home which was once a schoolhouse that he and Jessica have painstakingly restored.
Selected Corporate and Public Collections:
Capital Broadcasting Corporation, Durham, NC
Central Carolina Bank, Durham, NC
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC *
Glaxo Welcome, Inc. Research Triangle Park, NC
Hibernia Bank, San Francisco, CA
James Properties, Inc. (Hampton Inns), Wilson, NC
Mark Spano Communications, Inc. Chapel Hill, NC
Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis, TN
Moore Regional Hospital, Pinehurst, NC *
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Offices of US Senator John Edwards, Washington, DC
Ritz Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal
San Benito House, Half Moon Bay, CA *
TIAA-CREF, Raleigh, NC
Treyburn Corporation (offices of Terry Sanford, Jr.), Durham, NC
Wake Neurological Center, Raleigh, NC *
*Two or more paintings in their collection
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Biography from Gallery C:
| Joseph Cave (b. 1936) is a painter and printmaker renowned for his large landscapes painted in lush oils using bold brushstrokes and color.
Joseph was born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina. He attended the University of Georgia between 1954-1958 where he majored in painting.
After two years in Germany with the United States Army, Joseph returned to the United States and moved directly to San Francisco. He received his B.F.A. from The San Francisco Art Institute in 1962 and his M.F.A. from San Francisco State College in 1964. He was strongly influenced at this time by the Bay Area Figurative Painters although he chose landscapes as his predominate subject.
Joseph taught drawing and painting for two years at the Memphis Academy of Art and a further year at Southwestern in Memphis before moving to Northern California. This period is marked by paintings of the rocky Pacific coast as well as images of the wine country. Joseph and his family moved to Portugal in 1984 where they stayed for five years and during which time he painted the Portuguese rural landscape.
In 1989 he returned with his family to his native Southeast first settling in North Carolina and then moving to the South Carolina Coast where he currently resides. Since his return to the Southeast he has become recognized as an important painter of the rapidly disappearing rural and agricultural landscape in the Carolinas. He has been actively painting professionally and exhibiting his work since 1961.
His work can be found in numerous private and corporate collections. Collections of note include The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, The Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis, TN, Glaxo Wellcome, Inc, Research Triangle Park, NC, and The Ritz Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal.
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