Jim Thompson

"Rt. 30 - Caledonia, PA" - Contemporary Americana Road Painting

2009

This wonderful urban landscape painting showed up in our inventory, but we have lost the name of the artist who created it. At any rate, it depicts a train arriving in the station of...

(NOTE: sorry for the reflections on the glass. I didn't want to take apart this professional, expensive, triple-matted frame job; it will save you several hundred dollars . . . ) A gorgeous winter scene by Whidbey Island (Washington) painter Pete Jordan...

I was intrigued to find that Mrs. Paul Mellon (yes, that Mellon) was a collector of Mary Faulconer's work, and that a number of her paintings around this size had sold from the Mello...

A superb super-realist depiction of a sliver pitcher and a glass in a silver sleeve, by one of the best, Brandon Drake. Super-realists often like to tak...

Michael Miller's beautiful original photorealist Midwestern landscape painting "Camp Road" (2024) depicts a Midwestern barn lying at the end of a dirt road, surrounded by forestry an...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --New Landscapes is a series of landscapes painted over the past year. It includes the artist’s observations of oceans, wooded hill...

Intersection 18x14, oil on panel City Scene Landscape The artist is a regional landscape painter working in oils and pastels whose subject matter varies from the mountains and desert of west Texas to the wetlands along the Texas coast, with a strong focus on Texas forests and trees. and to the Rocky Mountains The artist is in corporate and private collections around the world. Garrett Middaugh is a regional landscape painter working in oils and pastels whose subject matter varies from the mountains and desert of west Texas to the wetlands along the Texas coast, with a strong focus on Texas forests and trees. His palette is muted, stark, embracing the neutral colors of everyday experience. Avoiding the romantic, his landscapes are often painted at high noon or in the dead of winter. He paints in a fluid hyper realist style and feels most influenced by other landscape artists such as Neil Welliver and Rackstraw Downes. He sees landscape painting as a form of meditation, projecting outward, while solving equations and mapping the scene, realizing accuracy of objects and relationships, of light, color, textures, distances. "Landscape painting is for me a means of projecting outward, of meditating, examining the here and now of place. The process often feels similar to the satisfaction of solving math equations, intuitively realizing accuracy of objects and relationships, of light, color, textures, distances. For the most part I paint Texas. For several years I devoted a significant amount of time to painting its forests -- the complexity of forest alleviated my sense and the nearness and density of growth was comforting. I have also ventured into west Texas and Big Bend, and occasionally have attempted to capture the mesmerizing serenity of central Texas farm and ranchland." Garrett Middaugh Also shown is a new Texas tractor painting...