Ruth LaGue

Family Farm, Original Painting

2023

Artist Comments
Artist Ruth LaGue paints an impressionist landscape of the lush countryside. A glimpse of a white barn with a turquoise roof emerges from the stand of trees in the background. Ruth offers a balanced palette of warm greens to cool greens and blue, revealing portions of the red underpainting. Her intuitive usage of solid and vibrant colors aptly presents the peace and serenity of the pastoral scene.

About the Artist
In her abstracted landscape paintings, Ruth LaGue pares composition down to its barest form. Through simple color, line and form, landscapes are invoked, rather than detailed. Ruth adjusts the placement of the horizon line in her paintings to suggest a range of natural formations. She stretches form, line and color to their limits, providing the least amount of visual information needed to understand the landscape. Her color palette is nuanced and each color is distinctly her own. She is deeply influenced by her childhood in Alaska and her travels to India. While in India, she found an indelible connection between the vast, wild landscape of her childhood and the limitless internal landscape of the soul. Ruth’s beautifully simplified landscapes become metaphors for the spiritual or otherworldly realms inherent in both nature and in the self.

Words that describe this painting: landscape, barn, country, countryside, sky, peaceful, serene, field, bright, farm, trees, grass, barn, acrylicpaint, small, impressionism, impressionism, landscape, acrylic painting, green

Family Farm
Ruth LaGue
Acrylic painting on Paper mounted on cradled wood
Natural wood edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2023
12 in. h x 12 in. w x .75 in. d
1 lbs. 0 oz.