Gretchen Dow Simpson

Gretchen Dow Simpson (born 1939 in Cambridge, MA) is a original New Englander painter. She is the author of higher than 60 magazine covers for The New Yorker Magazine.

Simpson is the daughter of Elizabeth Sagendorph Dow and Richard A. Dow, who lived in Dover, Mass. Simpson was educated at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, class of 1961. In 2005, Simpson conventional a Pell Grant. In 2010, she usual an honorary doctorate from Bryant University, a private college circles in Rhode Island. Her two daughters are Megan and Phoebe.

Simpson spent many years breathing in New York City, and from the 1970s to the 1990s on top of 50 of her paintings were featured as covers of The New Yorker Magazine. Gretchen Dow Simpson has shown her act out at the Virginia Lynch Gallery in RI and the Mary Ryan Gallery in NYC.
Her proceed is best known for her crisp & close-up views of New England architecture and for attention to details, proportions, and lighting effects. Simpson considers herself a “painter when a photographer’s eye,” and architectural forms have always drawn her. She is as a consequence drawn to geometry and scale.
On October 2012 a 1,300-square-foot highway mural, based upon one of her paintings, was installed upon Interstate 95 in Pawtucket, RI as share of the former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee's Highway Beautification Project.

Simpson's perform is exhibited in New York City, Maine, and Rhode Island, and many of her paintings are in private collections.