USA Train Stations
HomeTown
Shaped Series
Artist: Heronim
Completed:
May 31, 2005
750 Pieces
24 inches by 36 inches
By: RoseArt
Heronim was
born in Detroit in a Polish-American neighborhood, and schooled at Art Center
College in Los Angeles. His work has exhibited in the Detroit Institute of Arts,
the Museum of Science and Industry in Los Angeles, and the San Francisco de
Young Museum, He has had one-man shows at the Charles Hecth Gallery in Palm
Springs, the Nelson Rockefeller Gallery in Palm Springs, the Touché Gallery in
Laguna Beach, the Heritage Gallery in Beverly Hills, the Dyansen Gallery in
Beverly Hills, and the Conacher Gallery in San Francisco.
Heronim describes his paintings as nostalgia; a time before computers, hi-tech
movies and fax machines, when the horse and buggy were the mode of
communication. He finds a lighthouse, and old hotel a railroad station, and then
the historical research begins. Delving in archives, haunting old book stores,
or talking to old-timers who remember :"the way things were," the
painting begins to evolve. The finished portrayal is history, nostalgia, and
fantasy.
Numbered among his many accolades are nineteen national and local awards from
print shows in New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Three
prints are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute in
Washington, D.C. The "Unveiling of the Statue," a limited edition
print, was authorized by the Gold Leaf Corporation, official licensee of the
Statue of Liberty Restoration Foundation. " Children of America," a
four by seventeen foot mural commissioned by the Nationwide Bank of Sacramento,
was reproduced on seven pages for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Edition in Life
Magazine. The United States Air Force Academy has two paintings in its
collection.
Heronim is his given name in Polish. He has elected to use it to certify all
Americana paintings and reproductions in order to avoid an possible confusion
between his work and that of his brother. He will continue to work in a variety
of other styles using Harry Wysocki as his signature. His paintings will stand
on their own distinct merits.
(Biography courtesy of Applejack Art Partners)