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Born in Chicago,
Carla Markwart has been a painter for over 20 years.
She has lived in San Francisco, California; Rome, Italy; and Wallpack Center,
New Jersey, but since 1996 she has resided in Galesburg, Illinois, where she
maintains a studio on the top floor of a downtown building, and teaches
at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois.
Carla began painting the landscape in northern California. She received her
MFA at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990. Her work can be
seen as an extension of the traditions represented by such artists as
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Edward Hopper, Fairfield
Porter, and Jane Freilicher. She shares with these artists a desire to
portray the visible world in a straightforward, direct manner that
acknowledges the poetry of the everyday.
She continues to paint en plein air in the midwest. She also makes
portraits, and in the last several years has been creating still-life
paintings.
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