Theodore Waddell
Marini's Mare
1999

Name: Marini's Mare
Brand: Theodore Waddell
Price: 36800 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

This a large scale portrait of a filly nursing from a mare. There is a sense of light in the piece that hints at a landscape's horizon line, but the central focus are the two horses. The painting's palette is an unsaturated and soft use of blues, yellows, greens, and browns. It is essentially a pastel earth tone color set. The horses stand on a heavily textured background, while the horses themselves are non-descriptive and abstract. Theodore Waddell's sophisticated modernist paintings have attracted widespread recognition. A native Montanan cattle rancher, Waddell most often paints freely-rendered range animals roaming the vast plains of Eastern Montana. In his work he draws a deliberate parallel between his subject and the elements of abstract art: cattle and horses are motifs formally arranged on the flattened and enveloping painted "ground" characteristic of modernism. Noted earlier for heavily textured surfaces, Waddell's recent paintings are more atmospheric, with translucent wax medium layers suggesting the drift of grazing animals, transitions of days, and the procession of the seasons. Theodore Waddell was born in Billings, MT in 1941 and raised in Laurel, MT. He studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, Eastern Montana College, and Wayne State University, Detroit (MFA, 1968). Waddell taught at the University of Montana from 1968 to 1976, and has since been a full time artist and rancher. He has had over ninety one-man exhibitions, major surveys at the Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, and the Denver Art Museum.

Creator:

Theodore Waddell (1941, American)

Creation Year:

1999

Dimensions:

Height: 58 in (147.32 cm)Width: 60 in (152.4 cm)

Medium:

Canvas,Encaustic,Oil

Movement & Style:

Modern

Period:

1990-1999