A colorful, loosely rendered oil painting of a man dressed in a purple coat and trousers, white…

Bicycle Man

Artist Frances Hynes (American, born 1945)

Date1992

Mediumoil on canvas (varnished with soluvar)

Dimensions50 5/8 × 60 3/4 × 1 5/8 inches (128.6 × 154.3 × 4.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of the artist.

Object number1999.2.1

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Copyright© Frances Hynes. The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextFrances Hynes lives and works in New York, and holds a master’s degree from New York University. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and the Art Students League in Woodstock, New York. Hynes is a founding member of Independent Studios I, a group of artists that has maintained a cooperative workspace in Long Island City, NY since 1978. Frances Hynes conveys a high sympathetic and personal sense of place in her paintings—intimate, painterly abstractions with underlying grid structures where foreground and background collapse. Hynes aims to convey the feel of a place, rather than the actual look of it. She calls her paintings “memory-scapes” and the everyday locales are seemingly nondescript but made uniquely her own through sense of style and emotion.

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