ronald shap
collection
80 YEARS OF BEAUTY
landscapes
California landscapes in oil and watercolor
September, 30x24"
White Heat, 24x18"
Spring on the Sierra Madre, 30x20"
Pink & Green, 30x15"
Pacific Ocean, 18x14"
Still lifes
Vibrant arrangements on canvas, board and copper panel.
Pumpkin and Blue Cloth, 14x10.5"
Pears on Pink, 12x9"
Bowl of Peaches, 10x8"
Pears and Grapes, 14x11"
Citrus and Peppers, 18x12"
portraits and figures
Classic portraits and studies.
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Nude on Purple Background, 18x23.5"
Gary, 18x24"
Nude with Bracelet, 20x26"
Lydia, 19x24.5"
Untitled, 19x25*
featured collection - 80's interiors
Blast from the past
The Yellow Blanket, 17.5x22.5"
Yellow Chair, 18x24*
Girl with Glasses, 22.5x17.5"
Skull on Stool, 18x24*
Fuchsia, 17.5x22.5"
Pink Skull, 18x24"
Bone on Stool, 25x18*
Girl with Bowtie, 17.5x14.5"
Five Pillows, 18x24*
Featured collection - Linear
abstracts
Clean lines in oils
Celestial Skylight, 30x40*
Southwest Noon, 32x40"
Silver Morning, 30x40*
Santa Monica Bay, 30x40*
Ultra Light, 30x40*
Kyoto Wind, 30x40"
ABOUT
Ronald Shap was born in 1941 in Toledo, OH and lived most of his life in California. The brother of acclaimed portrait artist Sylvia Shap, he was a scholarship award graduate at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1964 and completed graduate study in painting at the University of Nebraska and Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1967. He was a visiting artist and instructor at BGSU in 1973-74 and worked out of his Los Angeles studio and taught drawing and anatomy at Citrus College until his retirement in 2005.