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a national organization to show and promote works by professional women artists founded in 1896 |
Board of Governors
| Maryann Burton, President Maryann graduated from the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art. Her professional career includes Ziff Davis Publications, Park Avenue, New York, in the Advertising Department. Owner and operator of MBurtonArt Studio & Gallery in Moonachie, NJ, she teaches Watercolor classes, and hosts other artist’s workshops. She also enjoys teaching Plein Air painting at different locations. Maryann is the recipient of many awards and accolades that include Manhattan Arts International “Outstanding Woman Artist Achievement Award”. She has attained signature status in The New Jersey Water Color Society, North East Watercolor Society, and the Hudson Valley Art Association. An elected member of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, serving as a board member and Chair of its Benefit Reception for the Metropolitan Museum of Art American Wing Travel Fund, a fellow with the American Artists Professional League, and the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society. She has also served as a curator and awards judge for many exhibitions. |
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| Rebecca Rosenheck, 1st Vice President, Annual Juried Exhibition Chair Rebecca Rosenheck is an award-winning artist that paints from life and tries to capture the light. Working primarily in pastel and oil, Rebecca paints the luminous colors she sees, which can’t be discerned from photographs. Rebecca is an associate member of Pastel Society of America and a signature member of Pastel Society of New Jersey. For CLWAC, Rebecca held the position of Co-chair of the Annual Open Exhibition in 2022. Rebecca holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Lafayette College. Her engineering background informs and enhances the drawing and spacial ability seen in her paintings. She has studied pastel painting with Catherine Kinkade, PSA at the Montclair Art Museum and she has studied oil painting with Rebecca Jean Leer, OPA at the Ridgewood Art Institute. |
| Kelly Ufkin, Treasurer When Kelly was six years old her family relocated from Riverside, California to Portland, Maine. This is where she spent most of her life until she went to college in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Marywood University became her home for seven years and where she earned a BFA in Art Therapy and minor in Psychology. Kelly had decided to remain at Marywood to receive a Master of Fine Arts in Painting degree. During the seven years she studied abroad for two semesters in Florence, Italy where she was trained in oil and fresco painting. Europe was a life altering experience for her, and she continues to travel abroad for inspiration. Being able to study the masters from Musee Marmottan Monet, Louvre, Uffizi and others have broadened her skills and highly influenced her work. Since completing her master's degree in May of 2012 Kelly returned to Maine. |
Joyce Zeller, Investment Treasurer
Joyce Zeller, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club’s Honored Member of 2018, is a many-talented artist, an organized inspiring leader, a successful business owner, a constant traveler and a patron of the arts. As the Club’s president from 2006-2009, she focused on strengthening the Club’s public image. And she was the driving force behind the publication of “The Chronicle”, a richly illustrated narrative of the CLWAC’s first one hundred and twenty years. She continues to be an enthusiastic advocate and publicist for the organization. She also established an annual scholarship at the Art Students League for a promising female artist and managed to modernize the Club’s website.
During her early career, Joyce studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and later taught a course in entrepreneurship there. While teaching, she opened a clothing and shoe boutique in New Jersey and New York which occupied her for many years.
Selling her business so that she could develop as an artist, her first love, she studied at the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League and the New York Academy School.Portraits became Joyce’s specialty. Four Federal Court judges of the Southern District of New York commissioned her services for their official portraits. Her portrait of the 81st US Attorney Michael Mukasey is hanging in the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. Other public commissions include portraits of Dr. Cynthia Starr, of the Dr. Starr Breast Cancer Center of Warren Hospital in Phillipsburg, NJ and Headmasters of the French American School in Mamaronek, NY. These works are classically composed, three-quarter length views in oil and are strong and dignified, showing a gravitas befitting the subjects position and the public places where they hang.
Other works of family groups also make up her oeuvre. These paintings place the subjects in homelike environments that give further clues to the personality and character of the depicted families. The drawings of children, mostly head studies in pastel or graphite, give off a sensual and quiet beauty. There is an inner emotion evident in these small, delicate depictions. And, in addition, her pet portraits have garnered interest: Gallery&Studio magazine commented on her ability to imbue a pet portrait with a formal rigor that makes what could be a sentimental portrait into a success in purely aesthetic terms.
Joyce has had a solo exhibit and also been accepted into many juried exhibitions in the metropolitan area. Many awards have come her way, including ones from the Salmagundi Club, the Greenwich Art Club and the coveted Horse Head Award from CLWAC. She sits on the board of the Artists’ Fellowship and is a member of the Portrait Society of America, the Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists and Allied Artists of America. She is also an associate member of the Pastel Society and a permanent advisor to CLWAC. The board of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club is proud to have Joyce Zeller, a lady with a quiet demeanor and fierce energy, as our Honored Member for 2017.