Mary Sipp Green - Beyond the Visible,Findlay Galleries, New York

Wed 11 Jun 2025 to Fri 1 Aug 2025

32 East 57th, 2nd Floor, NY 10022

Mon-Fri 10am-6pm

Mary Sipp Green’s evocative landscapes transcend the boundaries of realism, inviting the viewer into a world shaped by memory, light, and atmosphere. Her signature skies — layered with subtle, radiant hues — do not merely depict a scene; they reveal its emotional and spiritual resonance.

“I began painting what I saw — realistic, recognizable scenes,” she explains. “But over time, I longed to express something deeper. I wanted my work to speak beyond appearances, to capture a sense of place as it exists in memory and feeling.”

This shift in vision emerged in Dusk on Goldenrod, a turning point in Sipp Green’s career. Inspired by a familiar meadow suddenly transformed by goldenrod and shifting light, the painting marked her transition from realism to something more intuitive and poetic.

A native of New York, Mary grew up drawing in her father’s Manhattan art studio. She studied fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology and later ran a boutique in Greenwich Village. Eventually, she moved to the Berkshires, where she embraced painting full-time. “I needed to see what my work could become — I knew I would regret not trying.”

Her influences include George Inness, Albert Pinkham Ryder, James Whistler, Mark Rothko, and the Luminist painters — artists known for their spiritual engagement with light, tone, and space.

Findlay Galleries is proud to present the work of Mary Sipp Green — a Massachusetts-based artist whose paintings open a window into the soul of the landscape.

“These are paintings to live with. Restrained and blurred, with a minimum of edge, they quietly draw you in, enveloping you as in a dream. There are forms enough to suggest a landscape, a seascape, or trees nestled by a stream. The time of day seems to be at twilight or just before dawn. Over it all is light - light as radiance, light emerging from shadow. Mary Sipp Green has brought her art via expert training to its present day stage over a quarter-century of painting. Its dependable quality will not escape you. Most remarkable to me, is a special sense of emergence. Put another way, her visions seem to find their path from within, rather than be forms applied to a surface…Her paintings offer a delicate serenity and peace.”