SHELDON FINE ART
Bach
Del-Bourree
Del-Bourree Bach has enjoyed a successful career as an artist for more than twenty-five years. His paintings have won over one hundred awards in international, national and regional competitions and exhibitions and are in private and corporate collections throughout the United States and abroad.
He is an award winning artist member of the Salmagundi Club New York, where he exhibits regularly and has served as Chairman of the Art Committee and on the Jury of Awards.
For many years Del worked as a free-lance illustrator. His work regularly appears in the New York Times, National Review, Saturday Review, Psychology Today, and other publications. His many book illustrations include Atom and The Exploding Suns, both by the late Isaac Asimov. He has been a featured artist in Art Direction Magazine and his drawings have been used to advertise Koh-I-Noor pens. He has done poster and publicity artwork for many arts organizations, including the New York Philharmonic and Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Beginning in 1993, Del began to pull away from the commercial art world and concentrate on his painting. At the time, he often sold his work on the streets of Manhattan, frequently in front of the Metropolitan Museum, where he was bale to get immediate reactions from the public on a daily and personal basis. During this time, Del became a strong advocate for the rights of street artists and is still closely involved in their cause. In 1998 Del helped to spearhead a class action lawsuit on behalf of the artists. The recent federal court decision in favor of the plaintiffs preserves and protects the First Ammendment rights of all artists to display and sell their work in public spaces.
Del is a contemporary realist and enjoys painting many different subjects and locations. Although he is perhaps best know for his paintings of the sea and life in and around it, he is always looking for new inspiration from the world around him.
