Flat iron Building 2008 Purchase Award Salmagundi Club NY
Oil
8 x 6
2020
Here is the "Flat Iron Building" painting the Salmagundi Club purchased for their permanent collection at the 2008 Thumbox Exhibition. Below is the testimonial letter wriiten by the club president:
Michael Budden has been an exhibiting Artist Member of the Salmagundi Club in New York City since 1999, and his oil paintings have graced the walls of nearly every exhibit held since he joined the Club. For a number of years he submitted mostly bucolic rural scenes marked by a graceful and elegiac style. From his riverbanks to his country farms, these landscapes won numerous awards and were very popular in both the Club Auctions and the annual Thumb-Box Exhibition. Recently Michael has begun to show New York City street and park scenes, and this new work is a departure and very exciting. He has a gift for capturing light so clearly that it defines a moment in time and space that is evocatively real. So good is this new work that his “Flatiron” oil painting was awarded the Salmagundi Club Purchase Prize, and it will be added to the Club's Permanent Collection. The Salmagundi Club is honored to have such a fine artist among its roster of exceptional painters.
Claudia Seymour, President
Salmagundi Club
47 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10003
Michael Budden has been an exhibiting Artist Member of the Salmagundi Club in New York City since 1999, and his oil paintings have graced the walls of nearly every exhibit held since he joined the Club. For a number of years he submitted mostly bucolic rural scenes marked by a graceful and elegiac style. From his riverbanks to his country farms, these landscapes won numerous awards and were very popular in both the Club Auctions and the annual Thumb-Box Exhibition. Recently Michael has begun to show New York City street and park scenes, and this new work is a departure and very exciting. He has a gift for capturing light so clearly that it defines a moment in time and space that is evocatively real. So good is this new work that his “Flatiron” oil painting was awarded the Salmagundi Club Purchase Prize, and it will be added to the Club's Permanent Collection. The Salmagundi Club is honored to have such a fine artist among its roster of exceptional painters.
Claudia Seymour, President
Salmagundi Club
47 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10003