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Cynthia Harris-Pagano specializes in oil and pastel portraits in her North Light Studio in Otisville, New York - one hour Northwest of New York City.
Her studio, especially built on to her home brings in a North light which gives beautiful light and shade to the face and clothing.

Traveling to a client's home to sketch and photograph, or, working from a favorite photograph sent to her, Ms. Harris-Pagano concentrates inwardly on the intonation of color, light, and how personality is expressed.

In High School Cynthia traveled by herself on the Long Island Railroad, from Plandome, LI to take classes at the the Art Students League. At Vassar College she took classes in sculpture with Concetta Scarvaglione (who came two days from New York City.), then switched to painting with Rosemarie Beck.

Settling in Otisville with her husband, Angelo, and two children, she painted a semi-abstract series of large paintings, Genesis: Creation and Flood. After this and other large feminist/psychological paintings, she came to her full commitment in portrait painting.

This led her back to the Art Students' League Anatomy Lectures with Robert Beverly Hale and to a workshop in North Salem, NY with Daniel Greene.

Then, the attachment of a North Light Studio of her own, in Otisville, and six more years of study with John Osborne at the Ridgewood Art Institute, New Jersey. This effort represents a "picking up" of the thread, started in Barbizon, France (Corot and Others Plein Air), and continuing thru the Academy Julien, Paris (where Women were first permitted to paint the figure). Cynthia’s portraits are now in public and private collections in the USA, Canada, England, Sweden and Italy.

Cynthia Harris-Pagano is a member of The Portrait Society of America, and The Catharine Lorillard Woolfe Art Club.

2021 Best in Show, ”Portrait of Rebecca,” Middletown Art Group Online Juried Show, Orange County Community College, Middletown, NY
2019 Two Artists Still Life Exhibit, The Berkshire Bank, presented by The Goshen Art League

Five Portraits of Musicians featured in “Music: A Visual Perspective,”,Orange Hall Gallery, Middletown, NY

2018 “North Light: A Painter’s Study”, Created and curated by Cynthia with her own and works of other artists, Amity Gallery, Warwick, NY

Award of Excellence, Middletown Art Group, Orange County Community College, NY

Second Prize Floral Exhibit, Wallkill River School Art Gallery, Montgomery, New York

Chosen as an artist/mentor for Hudson Valley Artist Mentors, curated by Mary Mugele Sealfon, The Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY

2017 Featured Artist in Wurtsboro Art Alliance Exhibit, John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, NY
2016 Solo Exhibit, “Painting in North Light”, Desmond Campus, Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh NY
2015 Featured in Exhibit “The Art of Portraiture” where Cynthia gave “Master Class” lecture, “Portrait History in Western Art: A Painter’s Study”. Orange Hall Gallery, Orange County Community College, Middletown, NY
2015 First Prize, ”Portrait of Angelo Conducting”, Juried Portrait Exhibit, Wallkill River School Art Gallery, Montgomery, NY
2013 Showing of d the "Genesis: Creation and Flood" paintings in Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. The painting Firmament was chosen for Parting Shot by Chronogram, Arts and Culture, Magazine. To see a slide show of this series, click here.
2012 “Best in Show” at the MAG Juried Show, Orange County Community College, Middletown, NY
2011 “Best in Show” at the MAG Juried Show, Orange County Community College, Middletown, NY
2006 Connecticut Pastel Society Award at the 34th Open juried Exhibition of the Pastel Society of America, The National Arts Club, NYC
2005 American Artists Professional League Award at the Ridgewood Art Institute 26th Annual Regional Open Juried Show, Ridgewood, New Jersey
2005 “Best in Show” at the MAG Juried Show, Orange County Community College, Middletown, NY
2004 “Best in Show” at the MAG Juried Show, Orange County Community College, Middletown, NY
2002 Arthur Maynard Memorial Award at the Ridgewood Art Institute.
1997 “Young Woman in Brown Vest” was reproduced in Pastel Highlights, in 1997, an American Artist Publication.
1976 Featured artist in the Hudson Valley Magazine



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