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Jeff Aeling
Line of Cumulus East of Clayton - Large Scale Landscape Oil Painting with Clouds

2008

$16,000
£12,189.34
€13,910.92
CA$22,483.79
A$24,503.37
CHF 12,975.59
MX$294,311.29
NOK 164,273.86
SEK 151,033.65
DKK 103,899.17

About the Item

The subdued lavender and rose tones in this horizon painting recall Aeling’s extended observation of evening light on the Nebraska and Kansas plains. His interest in meteorological transitions—especially the boundary where the sun drops below the landmass—creates a scene that is both literal and dreamlike. The vast emptiness reinforces a theme central to Aeling’s work: the human presence felt only by its absence, replaced by a direct encounter with the immensity of land and air. Jeff Aeling Line of Cumulous East of Clayton Oil on panel 36h x 24w in 91.44h x 60.96w cm JAE047 Jeff Aeling (1958–2025): The Sky Remembers Through Jeff Aeling’s eyes, the landscape becomes a world shaped as much by air as by earth. In works such as North of Las Vegas, NM and Pond Near St. Cloud, MN, he balances the quiet structure of plains and wetlands with skies alive in constant motion. His mastery of atmosphere is unmistakable in Light Pillars (2023) and Light Pillar (2023), where rare optical events turn night into architecture. Even intimate scenes like Crabapple, Dogwoods, and Red Bud find their emotional power under skies that lend the land its shifting character. Aeling’s winters in Hawaii deepened his sensitivity to movement and weather. Surfing taught him to read the rhythm of the ocean, a knowledge reflected in Wave, Kauai (2018), where a breaking wave becomes a luminous wall of force. In Volcano (2023), he channels the islands’ elemental drama, linking fire, vapor, and sky through the same atmospheric vocabulary found in his plains paintings. Though often compared to American landscape painters like Church and Bierstadt, Aeling’s work engages modernity in subtle ways. He began his paintings with the camera—driving for hours to capture a fleeting alignment of cloud, light, and terrain. In the studio, he removed all traces of people or infrastructure, preserving the landscape as a pure, uncontrollable presence. This blend of tradition and contemporary practice allowed him to honor the past while speaking clearly to the present. Together, these works—whether a crashing wave, a blooming tree, a volcanic plume, or a column of winter light—form a portrait of the world as Aeling experienced it: vast, luminous, and alive with change. The Sky Remembers is both a tribute and an invitation to see the land with the reverence he carried throughout his life. Jeff Aeling (1958-2025) Iowa City, IA Represented in Chicago by Gallery VICTOR Education BFA, Painting and Printmaking, Kansas City Art Institute – Kansas City, MO School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL Solo Exhibitions 2016 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2015 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2014 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO 2013 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2012 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2011 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2010 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL Richard Demato Fine Arts Gallery - Sag Harbor, NY William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2009 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2008 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2007 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2006 Tory Folliard Gallery - Milwaukee, WI William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2005 Lisa Kurts Gallery - Memphis, TN Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL 2005 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2004 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2003 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ Lisa Kurts Gallery - Memphis, TN Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2002 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL Perimeter Gallery - New York, NY 2001 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2000 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 1999 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 1998 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO Leedy-Voulkos Art Center Gallery - Kansas City, MO Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL 1996 Grand Arts - Kansas City, MO 1994 Gallery V - Kansas City, MO 1993 Sean Kelly Gallery - Kansas City, MO 1991 Tribal Textile Gallery - Kansas City, MO Selected Group Exhibitions 2022 Kiss Me, It’s Beginning to Snow, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2021 2019 Es-Scape, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Earth Wind Fire, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2018 Portraits and Places: Select works from Gallery Victor Armendariz, curated by Corporate Art Advisory, Metropolitan Capital Bank, Chicago, IL Art Hamptons, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Bridgehampton, NY Front and Center, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2004 Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Perimeter - Chicago, IL and New York, NY FADA - Los Angeles, CA 5 Views of the Midwest Traveling Museum Show 2003 Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Perimeter - Chicago, IL and New York, NY FADA - Los Angeles, CA 2002 Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Perimeter - Chicago, IL and New York, NY Exhibition of Works from Permanent Collection, Daum Museum - Sedalia, MO FADA - Los Angeles, CA Winter in Tucson, Medicine Man Gallery - Santa Fe, NM 2001 Los Angeles Art and Antique Show Medicine Man Gallery - Santa Fe, NM 2001 FADA - Los Angeles, CA Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Perimeter - Chicago, IL and New York, NY 2000 Art San Francisco - San Francisco, CA Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Perimeter - Chicago, IL and New York, NY FADA - Los Angeles, CA Landscape, Des Lee Gallery, Washington University - St. Louis, MO Landscape, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1999 Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Perimeter - Chicago, IL and New York, NY 1998 Going Places, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO Summer, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Perimeter - Chicago, IL and New York, NY Air, Land and Sea, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO 1997 Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Perimeter - Chicago, IL and New York, NY Summer Show, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO 1994 Summer Invitational, Sean Kelly Gallery - Kansas City, MO Collections 4 Point Energy American Century Investments Art Embassies Program - Zimbabwe Biltmore Hotel - Phoenix, AZ Capri Capital - Chicago, IL Charles Schwab - Denver, CO D.S.T. Systems Daniel Taylor and Associates Exeter Oil Corporation Federal Reserve Bank - Denver, CO Federal Reserve Bank - St. Louis, MO Federal Reserve Bank -Kansas City, MO First Western Trust Bank Gates Rubber Company Grand Hyatt Denver Convention Center H&R Block Hall-Marshall Collection, Hallmark Hall-Silva Collection, Hallmark Johnson County Community College Johnson National Bank - Racine, WI Kansas City Art Institute Kansas State University Madison Dearborn Partners National Association of College Business Offices Renaissance Grand Hotel - St. Louis, MO Sprint St. Regis Hotel - Los Angeles, CA Wilmington Trust Company Museum Collections Beach Museum - Manhattan, KS Daum Museum - Sedalia, MO Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO Museum of the West - Tucson, AZ Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art - Overland Park, KS Tucson Museum of Art - Tucson, AZ
  • Creator:
    Jeff Aeling (1958, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2008
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 44.5 in (113.03 cm)Width: 80.5 in (204.47 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Chicago, IL
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: JAE0471stDibs: LU554317101122

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