Born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1936, Joseph Cave attended the University of Georgia (Athens, GA) where he studied painting from 1954-58. He went on to attend the San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco, CA) and received a BFA in Fine Arts in painting in 1962, and a Master of Arts in 1964 from San Francisco State University. Cave has taught at several institutions including The Memphis Academy of Art, Southwestern at Memphis, San Francisco Art Institute, and San Francisco State University. Though trained as an abstract expressionist, he is inspired by early landscape artists, American scene painters, and French Impressionists.

Cave primarily works in oils creating dramatic landscapes, harborscapes, and still-life paintings. He continues to create handsome etchings, often choosing floral still life or views of travels as subject matter. Recently Cave has begun working in egg tempera on artist’s panel for smaller paintings. He always prepares the surface before painting, making his own gesso with rabbit skin glue, titanium white pigment, and marble dust. Color, bold line, and shadow are masterfully woven together in each landscape painting culminating in “a place” where every viewer wants to be or has been.

It is likely that time spent in Portugal, where he lived for a number of years with his wife Jessica, and two children, Adam, and Sarah, had great influence on his painting. He has since returned to his native South Carolina where he resides in Georgetown in a lovely home which was once a schoolhouse that he and Jessica have painstakingly restored.

Joseph Cave's landscapes and still-life paintings are widely collected and have been in numerous one-man exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad.

Selected Corporate and Public Collections:

Capital Broadcasting Corporation, Durham, NC
Central Carolina Bank, Durham, NC
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC *
Glaxo Welcome, Inc. Research Triangle Park, NC
Hibernia Bank, San Francisco, CA
James Properties, Inc. (Hampton Inns), Wilson, NC
Mark Spano Communications, Inc. Chapel Hill, NC
Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis, TN
Moore Regional Hospital, Pinehurst, NC *
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Offices of US Senator John Edwards, Washington, DC
Ritz Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal
San Benito House, Half Moon Bay, CA *
TIAA-CREF, Raleigh, NC
Treyburn Corporation (offices of Terry Sanford, Jr.), Durham, NC
Wake Neurological Center, Raleigh, NC *

*Two or more paintings in their collection

Medium: Oil on Linen
Size: 36" x 46"
Price: $6,100
Framed
SOLD

Medium: Oil on Linen
Size: 30" x 38
Price: $5,200
Framed

Medium: Oil on Linen
Size: 36" x 30"
Price: $5,200
Framed

Medium: Oil on Linen
Size: 36" x 48"
Price: $6,000
Framed
SOLD

Medium: Egg Tempera
Size:11" x 8"
Price: $1,800
Framed

Medium: Oil on Linen
Size: 38" X 46"
Price: $6,200
Framed
SOLD

Medium: Oil on Linen
Size: 44" x 54"
Price: $6,800
Framed

Medium: Egg Tempera
Size:9 1/2" x 8"
Price: $1,700
Framed
SOLD

Medium: Oil on linen
Size: 36" x 30
Price: $5,200
Framed

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