About the Poster Art
Northampton at Night by Randall Deihl, Courtesy R. Michelson Galleries
Randall Deihl is one of the valley's most acclaimed artists and perhaps the most prominent figure in what has become nationally known as the Northampton Realist School. His best known painting, Sweets, an interior of Northampton's Academy of Music, hangs in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and other Deihl paintings of the area grace the walls of such major institutions as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently, he lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife, artist Nancy Hill, whose work also is exhibited at R. Michelson Galleries.
Northampton at Night was painted in 1993. It was the view from Randy's studio when he lived at the corner of Main and Masonic streets. This was what he saw when looking out the back window. It reminded him of the Flemish School and Vermeer's View of Delft.
The poster graphics are by Alexis Neubert of Alexis Design Studio.
