Painter: Linda Norford-Cross
Title: Desert
Date: 1962
Medium: Tempera on paper
Size: 23" 18"
Condition: small water stain on lower right side of picture, otherwise original condition. Framed in what appears to be original frame and glass.

*Note photo shows light reflection/glare coming off the glass which looks like a band of light across the top third of the painting.

You are bidding on a very nice painting by an accomplished, and well-listed artist, Linda Norford-Cross.

There is NO RESERVE! The final bid is the price this painting will sell for!

Funny story behind this painting.... I purchased it at a flea market in New York City 6 years ago and could not find any information on the artist signature. All I knew was that it's a great little painting, regardless of the "brand name". It's a really nice, minimalist composition with harmonious colors. A few months ago I did a google search on the name - and voila! Lo and behold I discovered that this was painted by Linda Norford-Cross who is represented in many prominent museum, and private collections. She has been successfully painting for 50 years, and by looking at her latest work we can see she is a major talent who continues to push the boundaries of art.

The painting you are bidding on was done early in Linda's career, and represents the New Mexico desert landscape.

Paintings by Linda Norford Cross sell for $3,000-$10,000 in prominent galleries. Take advantage of this ebay auction!
THIS IS A NO RESERVE AUCTION! The final bid, is what it will sell for.



(Below is an excerpt of an email I received from the artist when I inquired about the painting)

Hello,

Well, this is amazing! I found a check list from the East Side Gallery in New York City listing the sale of:

Desert, 1962

casein, 23" x 18"

I think this must be your painting. (Galleries seldom give me the name of the buyers)  I went to graduate school in New Mexico and found that landscape to be a wonderful influence. I occasionally continued this theme after moving to New York City in 1961. My work continues to explore landscape, currently the Hudson River Valley, where we live now.

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1954-57            The School of The Art Institute of Chicago

Selected Recent Solo Exhibitions

2005                 John Davis Gallery, New York, NY

2003                 “Linda Cross and John Ruppert,” Time & Space Limited, Hudson, NY

2002                 Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ

2001                 Davis and Hall Gallery, Hudson, NY

2000                 Davis and Hall Gallery, Hudson, NY

1998                 “The River,” Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY

                        “Shaping the Land,” Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY

1997                 “Land Marks,” A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery, New York, NY

1996                 Spencertown Academy for the Arts, Spencertown, NY

1993                 Art Museum, State University of Plattsburg, NY  

                        “Retrospective, Work on Paper,” Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY

1992                 Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY

1988                 Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY

1985                 Durham-Ziff Gallery, New York, NY

2008                 “Paper,” Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY

2007                 “First Bloom: Dialogues in Exuberance,” Victoria Price Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2006                 “Elements,” Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY

2005                 “50+” The Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, NY

2004,05             “Obsession,” Haddad Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

2004                 “Art and Environmentalism,” The Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY

                        “Gallery Artists,” John Davis Gallery, New York, NY

2003                 “Sticks and Stones 2,” Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY

                        “Monotypes,” Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY

2002                 “Linda Cross, Thomas Sarrantonio,” Watermark/Cargo Gallery, Kingston, NY

2001                 “Fishing,” Time & Space Limited, Hudson, NY

2000                 Columbia County Council on the Arts, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY

1999                 “Pondside Press Retrospective,” Lorraine Kessler Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

                        “Off the Wall,” Stamford Center for the Arts, Stamford, NY

                        “Location: A Survey of Hudson Valley Artists,” Kendall Gallery, Hudson, 1997       Annual Invitational, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY

                        "Second Nature,” Columbia Community Gallery, Hudson, NY

                        “Gift for India,” The Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, Bombay, India

1996-97            "Messages from the Interior,” Rathbone Gallery, Sage Jr. College, Albany, NY
(travel for 2 years)

1996                 "River Soundings" The Maritime Museum, Philadelphia, PA

                        "terra incognita,” RCCA: The Arts Center, Troy, NY

                        "Artists for the Environment," Gallery at Park West, Kingston, NY

                        “Ways of Seeing,” Coffin Creek, Mudgee, N.S.W. Australia

1995                 "Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood," Collaboration with J. Cross, Stockbridge, MA

                        "Forms from Nature,” The Gallery at Park West, Kingston, NY

                        "The Mohawk-Hudson Regional Exhibition," Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY

                        "Drawings," Image Gallery, Stockbridge, MA

1994                 "Landworks,” Vermont Council on the Arts, Woodstock, VT

                        "Hudson Valley Sampler,” The Gallery at Park West, Kingston, NY

                        "Geological Visions: Art of the Landscape" Schick Gallery, Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, NY

1993                 "Fieldwork,” site-specific installation, Art Omi International Arts Center, Omi, NY

                        "Riverworks,” site-specific installation, Hoosic River Watershed Association, Williamstown, MA

                        "Contemporary Monotypes," Associated American Artists, New York, NY

1992                 "Abstraction in the 90s," Sound Shore Gallery, Stamford, CT

                        "The Hudson Art Project," site-specific installation, Hudson, NY

                        "Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood," Stockbridge, MA

1991                 "Physicality, Color Dimensionality in Painting," Hunter College, New York, NY

                        "Art for the Land," Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY

1990                 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY

                        "Dimensions Between 2 and 3," Five Points Gallery, E. Chatham, NY

1989                 "Color Moves," Sound Shore Gallery, Stamford, CT

1988                 "Common Objects," Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY

                        Triangle Artists Workshop, Pine Plains, NY

                        Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY

1985                 Durham-Ziff Gallery, New York, NY

1977                 Webb & Parsons Gallery, New Bedford, NY

1969                 Annual Exhibition, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY

                        The American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY

                        “PAPER ' 68,” John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

                        The National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

1967                 Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1966                 “Art on Paper,” University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

                        Annual Fine Arts Festival, The Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, NY

                        Annual Exhibition, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY

                        Midyear Exhibition, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

                        Annual Exhibition, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

                        The National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

                        “Ultimate Concerns,” Ohio University, Athens, OH

                        Midyear Exhibition, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

1964                 Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY

                        “Second Annual Touring Exhibition”, Botts Memorial Hall, Albuquerque,NM, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, M, L'Ateliar, Cedar Falls, IO, Flea Market West, San Diego, CA

1963                 “Award Winners Selection Show,” East Side Gallery, New York, NY

1962                 Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY

                        Annual Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL

1961                 Madison Gallery Quarterly Exhibit, Madison Gallery, New York, NY

                        Corrales Invitational Exhibition, Corrales, NM

                        Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

1960                 Invitational Exhibition, Roswell Museum of Art, Roswell, NM

                        Art Rental and Sales Gallery, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1959                 Fifth Annual Festival of the Arts, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Selected Bibliography

2006                 Clark, Agi, “Linda and John Cross, in their own terrain,” Hudson River Art, vol. 5. p. 8

2005                 Morgan, Robert C., “50+ The Crux of the Matter,” catalogue essay, The Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, NY

                        Nahas, Dominique, “Selected Paper Art Exhibitions in New York City,” Hand Papermaking, Summer 2005, p. 30

2004                 “Art and Environmentalism,” Catalogue Introduction by Tom Nelson, Curated by Judy Abbott, Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY

2003                 Lombardi, Dominick, “Sticks and Stones 2,” The New York Times, Aug. 24

2002                 Cahill, Timothy, “Unnatural Landscapes,” Albany Times Union, May 19

2002                 Morgan, Robert C., “Linda Cross, Davis & Hall,” Sculpture Magazine, April

2000                 Jaeger, William, “Art on the Hudson,” Albany Times Union, Dec. 10

1998                 Morgan, Robert C., “Linda Cross, Shifting Terrains,” catalogue essay,
The Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY

                        Wilkinson, Jeanne C., “Land Marks,” COVER, vol. 12, #3, New York, NY

1997                 Morgan, Robert C., “Linda Cross, Land Marks,” NY Arts Magazine, issue 16, New York, NY

1995                 Jaeger, William, "Six Artists Light Out for Interior Territory," The Times Union, Albany, NY, Nov. 2

                        Temin, Christine, "Nature Gets into the Act," The Boston Globe, Boston, MA, Aug.9

                        Wright, Peg Churchill, "Chesterwood Sculptures Work Harmoniously with Surroundings,"
The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, NY, July 27

1994                 Abramson, Mark, "Visioning and Revisioning the Valley,” Woodstock Times, Woodstock, NY, Aug. 4

1992                 Peseckis, Frank, "The Resolution of Complexity: The Drawings of Linda Cross,”
Catalogue essay, Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY

                        Wright, Peg Churchill, "Chesterwood Stirs Imagination," The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, NY, Sept. 3, p. A8

                        Temin, Christine, "Chesterwood Gives Sculpture Room to Soar," The Boston Sunday Globe, Boston, MA, Aug. 23, p. 81

1990                 Lail, Thomas, "Show Mixes Math and Metaphor," The Times Union, Albany, NY, Nov.8, p. 10

1988                 Moffett, Kenworth, "Triangle Workshop," Moffett's Artletter, Stamford, CT, Sept.-Oct., p.130

1965                 “Linda Cross, East Side Gallery,” Art News, New York, NY April

1963                 “Linda Norford Cross, East Side Gallery,” Art News, New York, NY October

2007                 New York Foundation for the Arts, The Artist Fund

2000                 First Prize, Work on Paper, Columbia County Council on the Arts Juried Show

1993                 Special Opportunity Stipend, NY Foundation for the Arts & Renessalaer County Council for the Arts

1988                 Residency, Triangle Artists' Workshop, Pine Plains, NY

1966                 Purchase Prize for Painting, 31^st Midyear Show, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

1964                 George Grosz Memorial Scholarship, Art Students League, NY

1963                 Award for Painting, Allied Arts Guild Selection Show, East Side Gallery, NY

1959                 Graduate Fellowship, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

1959                 First Prize for Painting, 5^th Annual Festival of the Arts, University of Chicago