ARTIST: Francis Livingston (New Mexico, Idaho, Colorado, born 1953)
NAME: Computer Lab Scene
MEDIUM: oil on cardboard
CONDITION: Excellent. Framed under glass. Minor damages to frame.
SIGHT SIZE: 22 x 27 inches / 55 x 68 cm
FRAME SIZE: 32 x 37 inches / 80 x 93 cm
SIGNATURE: Lower right
PROVENANCE: EDFUND Collection; Devry University (has original tag plate attached upfront)
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
SKU#: 115764
WARRANTY: 7 days returns accepted if item doesn't match description

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Francis Livingston (New Mexico, Idaho, Colorado, born 1953)
Born in Cortez, Colorado, and living in Sun Valley, Idaho, Francis Livingston is a landscape painter much influenced by the work of Sargent and Whistler. HIs early art interest was comic-book art, but he was early discouraged by an instructor who told him, "You're not good at sequential stuff" because he was unable to duplicate figures in exact likenesses. However, that same instructor set him on a course of fine-art painting.
He studied at the Rocky Mountain school of art in Denver before moving to San Francisco in 1975 to attend Academy of Art and also taught there for ten years. He paints from his Idaho studio that is on the Big Wood River. Most of his landscape scenes suggest quiet, although a few have urban imagery.
With a love for nostalgia, he paints places which may no longer exist or that have lost their luster. His bold and impressionistic paintings take the viewer back in time to the day when amusement parks with wooden roller coasters, movie theatres with neon signs and buildings with ornate embellishments were in their prime.
Francis Livingston is known for his thickly applied brush strokes that emphasize shape rather than line, creating an abstract approach to realism. His scenes of yesteryear have exciting movement, color, texture and balance.