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Cynthia Harris-Pagano

 

Cynthia Harris-Pagano specializes in portraits in oil and pastel. Her range includes landscape, still-life, floral, religious subjects and etchings. She works out of her studio in Otisville, NY, one hour northwest of New York City.

2002, She won the Arthur L. Maynard Memorial Award at the Ridgewood Art Institute, Ridgewood, New Jersey. Her portrait “Young Woman in Brown Vest” was reproduced in Pastel Highlights, 1997, an American Artist Publication.

She has been a featured artist in the Hudson Valley Magazine. As well as receiving awards in many regional art exhibits, she received an award for “Portrait of Marya”, from Womanart Visual Concepts Inc. at the Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York City, l980.

She has portrait paintings in public and private collections in the USA, Canada, England , Sweden, and Italy.


Background and Training

1999: Ridgewood Art Institute, Ridgewood New Jersey, with John Osborne
1995: Daniel Greene Portrait Workshop, North Salem, New York
1980: Anatomy with Robert Beverly Hale, Art Students’ League, NYC

M.A. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, NYC.
B.A. Vassar College