Gabriela G. Dellosso
2011 Honored Member

The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club is proud to announce the 2011 honored artist is Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso, one of the most compelling realist artists of this generation. The focus and passion of her painting is devoted to depicting women as muse, artist,
clown, doll maker, bride, and swimmer. These women are strong and vital and in many instances the model is herself
or her mother.

Gabriela is a native New Yorker, who grew up in Astoria, Queens. Her family tree includes both painters and poets. She was exposed to art at an early age with weekly trips to The Metropolitan Museum under the tutelage of her father. In middle school she received an award from Pepsi Cola for being an outstanding art student. She earned her BFA from the School of Visual Arts after studying psychology at NYU,with further study in drawing and painting at the Art Students League with instructors Richard Pionk, Gregg Kreutz, and Harvey Dinnerstein. She also studied at the National Academy School of Fine Art where she currently teaches classes on figure drawing and composition. Before focusing exclusively on painting the portrait and figure, she worked as an illustrator for several years continuing to hone
her skills.

Photograph by William Basso, Jr.

“Homage to Judith Leyster.” Oil, 16” x 16”.

“Ruffled Swim Cap,” Oil on linen, 12” x 9”.

“Garrik,” Oil on linen, 24” x 20”.

Her first one-woman exhibition took place in 2006 at the Butler Institute of Fine Art in Youngstown, Ohio. Her paintings have been shown widely in other prestigious museums and juried shows, The Allentown Art Museum, the Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, Trenton City Museum, Katonah Museum of Art, Pastel Society, Allied Artists, Art Students League and many others. Art publications continue to feature her work individually or with other notable artists. Fine Art Connoisseur, the Artists Magazine, Pastel Journal, Spectrum all recognize her stature.

Seeing Gabriela’s paintings is like taking a trip through the pages of an art history text, noting her ability to integrate different periods into her work. There is a gravitas, a seriousness of purpose, not without a touch of whimsy that is found in many of her compositions. Examples are the ongoing series of self portraits wherein

“The Five Senses on the Table of Plenty,” Oil on linen, 40” x 60”.

Gabriela pays homage to earlier artists who have paved the way. In these portraits she has captured depths which transcend time and place. Painters honored in this series are Gretchen Rogers, Angelica Kauffman, Artemesia Gentileschi, Mary Cassatt, and Elizabeth Vigee Lebrun. In all these portraits the eyes speak of the soul and inner strength that drove these artists.

“Persistance of Moments,” Oil on linen, 70” x 53.”

Current works are large and multi-figured harkening back to historical and religious paintings of the masters, her’s continue to intrigue in their search for love, hard work, honesty and vision. Her narratives are a unique blend of imaging and story telling. She sketches a preliminary study in which she works out compositional arrangements,
questions of placement, emphasis, color, and value. In these small works she determines the focal point and the inter action of all the figures that will appear in the larger painting. One of these is the “Five Senses on the Table of Plenty.” In the last decade she has garnered twenty-five major awards including a gold medal in painting from the CLWAC. Gabriela is represented by the Eleanor Ettinger Gallery in New York City where she had a solo exhibition in 2008. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Butler Institute of American Art, OH; the New Britain Museum of American Art, CT; the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ; the Salmagundi Club, NY; and the Springfield Art Museum, MO. She served as Vice President of Painting for the CLWAC in 2003–2004. Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, herself would be especially proud of the accomplishments of this artist of passion and skill as she continues to celebrate women in her work.

1979 Sally Swan Carr
1983 Diana Kan
1985 Carey Boone Nelson
1990 Adrienne Potter
1991 Marilyn Newmark
1993 Sybil D'Orsi
1994 Lucille Hampton
1995 Lucille Stillma
1997 Beverly Bender
1998 Mary Lou Ferbert
1999 Dorothy Dallas
2000 Virginia Abbot

2001 Francine “Franke” DeBevoise
2002 Inge Jannen Heus
2003 Jean Kroeber
2004 Eleanor Tyndall Meier
2005 Ruth B. Reiber
2006 Elaine Lavalle
2007 Lucille Berrill Paulsen
2008 Gaile Snow Gibbs
2009 Amy Bright Unfried
2010 Mary Maran
2011 Gabriela G. Delosso