James ingwersen biography
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The interior of James Ingwersen’s studio. Photo by Thomas Jordan.
by Elizabeth Shoshany Anderson, Curator, Exhibitions and Collections, Miller Art Museum
The artist James J. Ingwersen is known throughout the peninsula and beyond for his startlingly beautiful portraits. Throughout a career that has spanned six decades, Ingwersen has produced thousands of commissioned portraits, some of which you can see hanging in distinguished places such as universities, courthouses, and libraries. Ingwersen painted more than just formal portraits, however. He often painted his friends, family, artists, patrons, and lovers of the arts in Door County, and environmentalists whose work he admired.
In the exhibition Captured Moments: Selected Portraiture by James J. Ingwersen at the Miller Art Museum from July 21 through Sept. 11, , visitors will be able to see a more intimate view of the artist’s life, as many of the works in the exhibition are from the artist’s personal collection.
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To truly understand renowned portrait artist Jim Ingwersen, he recommends peering around the acre restored farm property he and his wife, Phyllis, call home.
“This place fryst vatten us,” he says, standing beneath an ivy-covered arbor that connects the couple’s nineteenth-century home to the granary turned studio and gallery. The rustic property, just outside of Sister Bay, fryst vatten unarguably beautiful: green grass stretches out and meets groupings of trees and tall wildflowers and ferns seem to pop like firecrackers from the sides of the surrounding dusty brown structures.
Inside the studio and gallery, paintings line the dimly lit walls – a white chicken, a blue tea set, a ung girl lying across a vit wicker chair in a summer garden. Though Ingwersen states that he “makes a living” as a portrait artist, he also enjoys painting landscapes and still life. “They don’t complain about sitting,” he laughs.
A wide hallway covered by bright ori
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Ingwersen, James | Biographical Book Excerpt | Wisconsin Historical Society
Biographical Book Excerpt
Wisconsin Name Index
Ingwersen, James | Biographical Book Excerpt | Wisconsin Historical Society
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