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David Wells Roth, a portrait and land\/cityscape artist, was born in Florida and grew up in Sudbury, Massachusetts.\u00a0 While in high school\u00a0he\u00a0received private instruction from Boston expressionist David Aronson then studied painting in Boston University under a Ford Foundation scholarship, graduating with a BFA in painting.<\/p>\n

Right after college, Roth moved to New York City.\u00a0 Despite the financial hardships of being a fledgling artist in New York (which included living in his car for a time), he painted cityscapes, views in Central Park and street scenes throughout the city and sold them to passersby off of his portable easel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 1982, a French family offered Roth the opportunity to live in their home in the South of France for several months in exchange for a painting.\u00a0 He then moved to the Paris suburb of Le Pre St. Gervais and lived there through 1997,\u00a0bartering his\u00a0paintings for his\u00a0apartment. \u00a0While in Le Pre St. Gervais, he continued to paint city life, cafes and landscapes of Europe, including painting throughout Italy between 1984-1986. \u00a0He\u00a0was involved in exhibitions in Paris and Boston, including solo exhibitions at the French Library in Boston, and the Copley Society. \u00a0He participated in group shows in Paris, including shows at the Grand Palais, a juried competition at the Cirque d\u2019Hiver called Les Trophees de la Couleur, and a juried salon exhibition in the 10th district city hall of Paris.\u00a0\u00a0 While in Paris, from 1995-97, he\u00a0commuted back to Boston for a commission to paint a series of historical paintings for the Boston landmark and America's oldest continuously operating restaurant, The Union Oyster House. \u00a0The series was about the life of the Boston Revolutionary War publisher, Isaiah Thomas, and Daniel Webster, as well as some images of early Boston history which are on view in their Heritage room and along their sidewalk windows.<\/p>\n

Since returning to the states, Roth\u00a0participated in group shows in the Allan Stone and DFN galleries in New York, had solo exhibitions at the American Institute of Architects in Boston and the Whistler House Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts and was a finalist in the Blanche E. Coleman Award Competition.\u00a0 The Boston Public Library recently acquired several of his\u00a0drawings and watercolors for its print and paper collections.<\/p>\n

The federal and state courts in Massachusetts commissioned judicial portraits including a portrait of judge Richard G. Stearns which is hanging in Boston\u2019s federal courthouse.<\/p>\n

From 2007-2010<\/a><\/span> he\u00a0was awarded a commission to paint the portraits of all 34 judges (past and present) of the United States federal court of the district of Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boston University, BFA, Painting.
Studied under: David Aronson (pre-college private mentor then professor at BU), John Wilson, Arthur Polonsky, David Ratner, Iso Papo, Morton Sacks, Joseph Ablow<\/p>\n

Rhode Island School of Design, Pre-college studies program.
Studied under: Richard Merkin, David Mccoulay<\/p>\n

Awards and recognition<\/strong><\/p>\n

2012-15 St. Botolph Club, Boston - Fellowship, Fellow
2006 Blanche E. Coleman Award Competition, finalist
1993 Lefranc\u00a0 & Bourgois, Winsor Newton, Les Trophees de la Couleur, France
1975-76\u00a0Ford Foundation, Educational Grant, Boston University, Boston, MA
1975 Gold Medal, M. Grumbacher Artist\u2019s Material Award, New York National Scholastic Awards, New York, NY
1974-75\u00a0Boston Globe Scholastics Art Competition,\u00a0 various awards<\/p>\n

Selected Solo Painting Exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n

2015\u00a0\u00a0 South Street Gallery, Hingham, MA
2012\u00a0\u00a0 St. Botloph Club, Boston, MA
2010\u00a0\u00a0 Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2010\u00a0\u00a0 Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
2007\u00a0\u00a0 Boston Society of Architects \/ AIA, Boston, MA
1994\u00a0\u00a0 American School of Paris, Paris\u00a0France
1990\u00a0\u00a0 W.I.C.E. (Woman\u2019s Institute of Continuing Education) Paris, France \u00a0
1989\u00a0\u00a0 Kennedy Studios, Boston, MA
1988\u00a0\u00a0 Angelina\u2019s (tea salon) Paris, France\u00a0\u00a0
1988\u00a0\u00a0 Jewish Community Center, Revere,MA
1988\u00a0\u00a0 White Cliff Estate, Plymouth, MA
1987\u00a0\u00a0 Galleria Chaillot, Paris, France
1987,88,89\u00a0\u00a0 French Library of Boston, Boston, MA\u00a0
1986\u00a0\u00a0 The Copley Society of Boston, Boston, MA
1985\u00a0\u00a0 Marriott Hotel, Boston, MA\u00a0
1985,86,87\u00a0\u00a0 Sky Club, Boston, MA\u00a0
1983\u00a0\u00a0 La Loir Dans La Theier (tea salon), Paris, France<\/p>\n

Selected Group Exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n

2016 Powers Gallery, \"Town & Country\", Acton, MA
2016 Kelpi Gallery, South Thomaston, ME
2015 St. Botolph Club, Fellowship Exhibition
2014 Boston University, Convergence: 60th Anniversary Alumni Juried Exhibition
2013 St. Botolph Club, Fellowship Exhibition
2013 Powers Gallery, Acton MA
2012 Claudia Stone Gallery, New York, NY
2012\u00a0Quidley & Company Fine Art, Boston, MA
2012 George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
2008 Mazmanian Art Gallery, Framingham State College, Framingham, MA
2008 Allan Stone Gallery \u2013 Talent 2008, New York, NY
2008 Danforth Museum, Framingham MA, Juried Exhibition, Curated by\u00a0Carole Anne Meehan, Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
2007 Allan Stone Gallery \u2013 Talent 2007, New York, NY
2007\u00a0\u00a0 Powers Gallery, Acton, MA
2006\u00a0 Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 Frances Roddy Competition - Concord Art Association, Concord, MA, Juried Show, Jurer: Howard Yezerski\u00a0
2005 \u2013 Present,\u00a0 The Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA\u00a0
2005\u00a0\u00a0 South End Open Studio, Boston, MA\u00a0
2005\u00a0\u00a0 Redbrick Studio, Beverly, MA
1994\u00a0\u00a0 Espace BROTHER, Paris, France
1993\u00a0\u00a0 Cirque d'Hiver, Les Trophees de la Couleur (LEFRANC & BOURGEOIS, WINSOR & NEWTON), Paris, France\u00a0
1992\u00a0\u00a0 Grande Palais (Salon d'Automne), Paris, France\u00a0
1990\u00a0\u00a0 Pre St. Gervais, France - Salon d'Expression Contemporain, Le Pre St. Gervais, France
1982\u00a0\u00a0 10th district city hall (Juried salon exhibition) Paris, France\u00a0
1980\u00a0\u00a0 Copley Society of Boston's \"Boston Jubilee 350\", Boston, MA
1975-79\u00a0\u00a0 Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
1975\u00a0\u00a0 New York National Scholastic Awards, Union Carbide Building, New York, NY\u00a0
1974,75\u00a0\u00a0 Massachusetts Regional Scholastic Art Exhibition (sponsored by the Boston Globe) Boston, MA\u00a0<\/p>\n

Selected Collections and commissions<\/strong><\/p>\n

PUBLIC<\/strong>
Mairie du Pre St Gervais<\/u>, Pre St Gervais, France
Boston Public Library<\/u>, Prints & Drawings Collection, Boston, MA
United States of America, Federal Court House<\/u>, Boston, MA
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Portrait of Hin.\u00a0Richard G. Stearns
United States of America, Federal Court House<\/u>, San Juan, PR
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All judicial portraits of the U.S. District Court in Puerto Rico, past and present,\u00a0
\u00a0 \u00a0 Portraits of: Hon. Clemente Ru\u00edz Nazario, Hon. Jos\u00e9 Antonio Fust\u00e9, Hon. Aida M. Delgado-Colon, Hon. Francisco Augusto Besosa, Hon. Gustavo A. Gelpi, Hon. Carmen Consuelo Cerezo, Hon. Pedro Delgado, Hon. Juan R. Torruella, Hon. Jaime Pieras Jr., Hon. Salvador E. Casellas, Hon. Raymond L. Acosta , Hon. Hiram Rafael Cancio , Hon. Juan B. Fern\u00e1ndez-Badillo, Hon. Paul Charlton, Hon. David Ch\u00e1vez Jr. , Hon. Robert Archer Cooper, Hon. Daniel R. Dominguez, Hon. Jay A. Garcia- Gregory, Hon. Gilberto Gierbolini-Ort\u00edz, Hon. Peter Joseph Hamilton, Hon. William Henry Holt, Hon. John James Jenkins, Hon. H\u00e9ctor M. Laffitte, Hon. Charles Francis McKenna, Hon. Arthur Fuller Odlin, Hon. Juan Manuel P\u00e9rez-Gim\u00e9nez, Hon. Hern\u00e1n G. Pesquera, Hon. Noah Brooks Kent Pettingill, Hon. Thomas Hagan Roberts, Hon. Bernard Shandon Rodey, Hon. Jos\u00e9 V. Toledo, Hon. Ira Kent Wells, Major Eugene D. Dimmick, Major Earl D. Thomas
Wrentham District Court<\/u>, Wrentham, MA,
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Portrait of Hon.\u00a0Warren Powers<\/p>\n

CORPORATE
<\/strong>MIT Federal Credit Union<\/u>, Cambridge MA \u2013 2013 - commissioned portrait of its founder, Frank Conant
<\/em>Union Oyster House<\/u> (historical landmark), Boston, MA -\u00a01995-1997 - painting series commission: to create a series of paintings representing the printer \/ publisher Isaiah Thomas and his connection to the American Revolutionary War as well as depicting history connected to the Union Oyster House<\/em>
City Harvest<\/u>, Inc., New York, NY
Lefranc\u00a0 & Bourgois, Winsor Newton<\/u>, France
Law Offices of Kenyon & Kenyon<\/u>, New York, NY
Morgan Stanley<\/u>, New York, NY
Psion Co<\/u>., London, England
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs<\/u>, Paris, France -\u00a01992 - lithograph commission: to create a lithograph edition representing the Cathedral d'Evry, the first cathedral built in France in 200 years, the lithographs were offered to the various parties involved by<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, including the architect, Mario Botta<\/em>
Hotel Adagio<\/u>, Sevres, France
Hotel Ibis<\/u>, France
One if by land, Two if by sea<\/u>, New York, NY<\/p>\n

PRIVATE
<\/strong>Found in private collections throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States<\/p>\n

PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS<\/span><\/h1>\n

Interview by Michael Corbin, DAVID WELLS ROTH: JUDICIAL PORTRAITS<\/a> with \"ArtBook Guy\" July 1, 2013<\/span><\/p>\n

Interview by Michael Corbin, \"DAVID WELLS ROTH: SPACE, LIGHT & SHADOW\"<\/a> with\u00a0 \"ArtBookGuy.com\"<\/a>, April 5, 2012<\/span><\/p>\n

Framingham artist exhibits at Boston's St. Botolph Club<\/a><\/span>
Review by Chris Bergeran, Gatehouse News Services, (or Article<\/a>). February 27, 2012<\/span><\/p>\n

Listed in the Benezit Dictionary of Artists<\/u>, Vol. 11, pg. 1434, Oxford University Press<\/span><\/p>\n

Review by Kristine Lundblad, Gatehouse News Services, Framingham artist mounts 'Places and Faces' show at the Whistler<\/a> (or Article<\/a>), June 3, 2010<\/span><\/p>\n

Interview by Chris Bergeran, Metrowest Daily News<\/u>, Framingham artist completes series of judge portraits<\/a> (or Article<\/a>), March 22, 2010<\/span><\/p>\n

Drawing appears in Nathan Goldstein\u2019s Figure Drawing, the Structure, Anatomy and Expressive Design of Human Form<\/u>, 7th<\/sup> Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2010<\/span><\/p>\n

Review by Chris Bergeran, Metrowest Daily News,<\/u> \"Trio of artists exhibits at Framingham State<\/a>\", December 8, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n

Interview by John Hilliard, Framingham Tab<\/u>, \"David Wells Roth's paintings capture the silent drama of color at play<\/a>\" (or \u00a0<\/a>Article<\/a>),\u00a0 September 19, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n

The San Juan Star<\/u> \"Portraits of ex-federal judges unveiled in courthouse tribute\"<\/a>, July 11, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n

Metrowest Daily News<\/u>, \u201cAnticipation: Artists and institutions to watch in 2007<\/a>\u201d, December 31, 2006<\/span><\/p>\n

June Wulff, The Boston Globe<\/u>, Sidekick <\/em>\u201cScenes and the city<\/a>\u201d, March, 2007<\/span><\/p>\n

Review by Ron Fletcher, The Boston Globe<\/u>,\u00a0 \u201cWalls of Logan\u2019s Terminal C provide a way station for art<\/a>\u201d - - \u201cWalls of Logan\u2019s Terminal C provide a way station for art<\/a>\u201d\u00a0 July, 2006<\/span><\/p>\n

Interview by Chris Bergeran, \u00a0Metrowest Daily News<\/u>, \u201cA brush with the law<\/a>\u201d, May 28, 2006<\/span><\/p>\n

Interview by Chris Bergeran, \u00a0Metrowest Daily News<\/u>, \u201cA brush with passion<\/a>\u201d, September 15, 2005<\/span><\/p>\n

News From the Boston University School for the Arts<\/u>, Class notes, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n

Susan Bickelhaupt and Maureen Dezell, \u00a0The Boston Globe,<\/u> Names and Faces<\/em>, \u201cFinishing Touches<\/a>\u201d, July 10, 1996<\/span><\/p>\n

Figaroscope<\/u>, Paris, Expositions, \u201cDavid Wells Roth\u201d, October 26, 1988<\/span><\/p>\n

Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe<\/u>, \u201cGreat Views\u201d, June 12, 1987<\/span><\/p>\n

Review by Louis Williams, Middlesex News<\/u>, \u201cSudbury artist, a master in the making<\/a>\u201d June 27, 1985<\/span><\/p>\n

Interview by Donald Heinrich, Something ELSe<\/u>, \u201cA foreign Palette - Two artists in Paris<\/a>\u201d, December 20, 1984<\/span><\/p>\n

Review, The Middlesex News<\/u>, \u201cSudbury artist exhibits in honor of Boston 350\u201d July 1, 1980<\/span><\/p>\n

The Boston Sunday Globe<\/u>, \"Scholastic art awards of The Boston Globe\", February 9, 1975<\/span><\/p>\n

Interview by Lorelei Snyder, The Fence Viewer<\/u> (Sudbury, MA), \"Washington Stamp Board Will View Sudbury Student's Art<\/a>\", 1970<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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