Eric Fischl, who observed her drawing from live models, says: “I couldn’t take my eyes off her work. I had never seen anyone capture, with such fluid grace and comfort, the depth of observation of the human form as she was able to do so quickly and precisely in watercolor”. According to Adele Chatfield-Taylor, President of the American Academy in Rome, “she is a classically trained painter, but her work is absolutely contemporary”. Although her subject is Rome, a city thousands of years old, Wendy’s work is not a throwback. Born in Boston, Wendy Artin received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 and an M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1990.