About The Artist:
Ralph Eugene Della-Volpe
Ralph Eugene Della-Volpe was a prolific fine art painter who, drawing from nature, created masterworks of color, pattern, form, light and shadows for much of his long life of 94 years. Born May 10, 1923 Ralph was aware that as an artist he lived much of the time inside his own head. He once told an audience "most laymen feel that the artist is some far out beatnik on Cloud 9, floating above anything worldly. This is not true." Even at an early...
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About The Medium:
Oil
Process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. Commonly used drying oils include linseed oil, poppy seed oil, walnut oil, and safflower oil.