Original Heywood Painting on Auction

In support of America’s oldest non-profit art organization, American Realist Anne Heywood, has donated her original pastel painting, “GMO’s Snax” to the Copley Society of Art, Boston, for their annual Fresh Paint 2019 Auction event. “It is my pleasure to promote the mission of the Copley Society, which is “[to provide] a platform for arts cultivation while engaging and educating the public,” explains Heywood. “This is why I am donating 100% of the proceeds from the sale of this piece to the Copley Society.”

Heywood’s “GMO Snax”, 13″ x 23″, is a Boston city scene of the snack shack on the Esplanade, seasonally boarded up and overlooking the Charles River, with the skyline of Cambridge in the distance. An unusual “early season” version of an otherwise colorful and popular area, Heywood explains that all of the painting’s elements — the yellow snack shack, the puddles on the ground, and the black-and-white background — lend to the feeling of the rainy spring Boston has experienced this year. “There is definitely a sense of place and time to this piece,” she says with a smile.

The Copley Society of Art’s Fresh Paint Auction takes place at the Gala on Thursday, May 16th, 2019 from 6:30 to 8:30 at the Copley Society of Art, 158 Newbury Street, Boston. Gala event and  ticket information is online at https://www.copleysociety.org/events/31st-fresh-paint-auction-and-gala. To browse the paintings up for auction, https://www.copleysociety.org/. For further information, 617-536-5049.