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Shuttle Discovery titled "Shuttle Discovery: Return to Flight". In 2003, Prey was commissioned by the President and First Lady to paint the official White House Christmas Card. Prey's painting is included in the White House permanent collection. In 2004 the New York State Senate honored Prey with the Senate's "Women of Distinction Award". Prey was also honored by the Heckscher Museum of Art at their 2011 Celebrate Achievement Gala for her achievements and contribution to American art and culture. Heckscher Museum Director Michael Schantz stated, "Barbara is one of America's most gifted watercolorists whose works are rooted in the grand traditions of American landscape painting." In 2008, Prey was appointed by the President and approved by the Senate to the National Council of the Arts, which advises the National Endowment for the Arts. Chairman Dana Gioia stated to ARTFORUM "Barbara Prey's nomination continues our tradition of having prominent visual artists as members of the National Council of the Arts." She has lectured at the National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dartmouth College, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum Madrid. In 2015 Prey's painting The Collection was selected by the U.S. State Department as the July 4th image for every U.S. Ambassador and Embassy invitation around the world for their Embassy celebrations. Prey has been commissioned by Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
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to the relative transience of human life. Our imaginations are not only enticed by the houses, boats and sheds themselves, but also by the exquisitely wrought details that animate the compositions." The idea of
American identity plays a large role in Prey's work both in subject matter and context. An article in
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has said that Prey's works "connects us, as viewers, to the land (and the sea); these scenes link us to place, history, and elemental human pursuits in the face of our frenetic, technology-dominated lives. The pristine landscapes and seascapes… suggest the power and permanence of nature in contrast
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Prey is both an oil and water color painter but her primary medium is watercolor. She has said, "watercolor is a lot like jazz you kind of know where you're going, but you're going off along the way." She has expressed an interest in the use of strong color, especially applied to her study of Maine
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Prey was commissioned by NASA to paint four paintings for their collection. She has painted the x-43, the world's fastest aircraft; a commemorative work for the anniversary of the Space
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Returning to New York in 1981 from her studies and exhibits in Europe, Prey lived in New York City where she worked in the Modern
Painting Department at Sothebys. It was also at this time that she began to focus intently on drawing, and to sell her work to publications such as
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Foundation from 1986 to 1987 to Tainan, Taiwan, where she was a visiting professor in
Western art, enabled her to continue to study with several Chinese master painters. She continued to exhibit in Asia where she painted her first large, full-sheet paintings.
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Prey's work has been featured in many national and international exhibits. For the past three years, her work has been featured in the
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Barbara Prey to create the world's largest known watercolor painting (8 by 15 feet) for its new Building 6, which opened in Spring 2017. She has worked in oil painting and illustration, the latter of which she contributed to
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During this time, Prey continued work on her watercolors. She began selling her work to family and friends, then made sales through private exhibitions and social gatherings, eventually retaining representation with numerous galleries.
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landscapes; "A clear blue sky speaks to your soul — it's like a piece of music." Referring to her White House Christmas card in 2003, an article in
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Barbara Ernst Prey was born in New York City in 1957. Her mother Peggy Ernst was an artist and Head of the Design Department at New York City's
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