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Theodore Waddell
Big Sky Angus
2017

Name: Big Sky Angus
Brand: Theodore Waddell
Rating: 5 (24 reviews)

About the Item

This modern, large scale landscape painting is a permanently joined triptych. Dark valued shapes speckle the green, blue foreground. The viewer could view these as abstract shapes or as Waddell's iconic cows, reduced to specs for scale to the opaque mountain in the background. The mountains are a complex gradient of a purple, aqua, blue, and back to purple. This color and value rendering gives a sense of morning light and mist as the sun rises behind the mountains. The sky is a soft, creamy yellow and blue with suggested clouds as the sun slow rises. The heart and hand needed to create a strong American painting is not limited to those living east of the Mississippi. It is a product of endless work, self-evaluation, and the courage to allow one's paintings to evolve. It demands the marriage of the artist's lifestyle and his work. Theodore Waddell exemplifies this definition. His enthusiasm and lifestyle are reflected in the way he works and the imagery he uses. Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the movement of the paint throughout the paintings, but the subjects are frozen. They are not frozen as a stagnant object, but captured as a solitary image. Captured, interpreted, and enveloped in the landscape. They are carved out of, or laid onto the green and grey-yellow of the spring and summer, or the white canopy of winter. And sometimes there are ghosts in the paintings, the faint image of what has changed in the piece or decays in the pasture. These ghosts are metaphors for the struggle and change that is constant in life; our own mortality. Waddell states, "The understanding of death brings about a feeling of wonderfulness and appreciation of life and just how fragile and magical it all is." Whether Waddell is studying the changing seasons, animals as individuals, or the later figures, one can see his magic in his reverence for nature and celebration of paint. He is a painter's painter: strong hearted, sure handed, and high spirited. Therefore, if I must categorize Waddell, he will live in the ranks of American painters and not be limited to the confines of the western artist. Jennifer Complo McNutt Curator of Contemporary Art Eiteljorg Museum

Creator:
Theodore Waddell (1941, American)
Creation Year:
2017
Dimensions:
Height: 120 in (304.8 cm)Width: 126 in (320.04 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Encaustic,Oil
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Bozeman, MT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU49832333911

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