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Capitol Reef Enamel Copper Landscape Painting by Irwin Whitaker

1985

'Canyon De Chelly' enamel on copper plate by Irwin Whitaker. Enamel measures 16.25" W x 12.25" H, frame measures 19.5" H x 23.5" W. Irwin Whitaker - Oklahoma-born artist who was pro...

Vibrant Stephen Thomas Rascoe oil on board titled Sierra Madre. circa 1969. Amazing color combination! Rascoe was a well-known Texas artist and professor who produced a prolific bod...

San Rafael Reef #2, acrylic on panel, 11 x 37 1/2 inches, $2,200 “It is my feeling that the desert country of the American West is too large, too wild, too gorgeous to be encompassed by traditional landscape painting. Our inherited aesthetic defines beauty in landscape as green and arable land or grand, breathtaking places. I feel the need to expand that definition. I want to portray the desert as it is right now; to dispense with the limitations of what has come before, to quietly point out the beauty of places that are harsh and forbidding to habitation but express an aesthetic of the wild. I strive to go beyond the sentimentality that often defines our images of the West. The scale of many of my pieces (an extreme horizontal) is a compositional strategy to capture the vastness of these places.” – M. Knudsen Mark Knudsen...

Midcentury acrylic painting on canvas that deconstructs a Western landscape and recomposes it with lines and color. Signed Yanosky 1974 in the lower right and titled on the back, Ear...