Alexis Rockman is a representational painter who has for years been concerned with bringing unseemly incidents in the natural world to light.

"To be a representational painter was pretty bleak during the 50's," Alex Katz, the painter, recalled.

At first, Alice Mason did not see any link and warned her daughter against marrying a representational painter.

In the late 19th century, photographers proved they could do the work of representational painters, only faster and better.

Dorian Allworthy is an American representational, tonal-realist painter working in Chicago.

(He is a careful representational painter, not a Pollock.)

Long ago, when pressed to interpret his work, he said: "I am a representational painter, but not a painter of appearances.

With that end in mind, the council intentionally started the project by inviting largely realistic, representational painters, like Rackstraw Downes.

This small but revealing show makes it clear that Tillim was not a very good representational painter.

The mission of the Foundation was to recognize and promote innovative, contemporary representational painters and sculptors.