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Jim Woodson Art

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An intuitive artist, renowned Texan painter Jim Woodson is best known for his vivid landscape paintings of the American Southwest. 

Woodson creates richly colored depictions of hilly desert terrain and mountain ranges that teem with energy. While his works have been described as Impressionistic at times, Woodson integrates abstraction in his paintings and he has over the years cited the Bay Area figurative movement — and its pioneering members Richard Diebenkorn and David Park — as influences.

Woodson grew up in the city of Waco and was drawn to creative expression as a child. He studied at Arlington State University but eventually transferred from there to Texas Christian University (TCU). Before he moved on to TCU, while in his sophomore year at Arlington, he met art professor Joe Farrell Hobbs who taught him the core principles of painting. For Woodson, the instructor was an example of a person who made a career out of art.

Woodson finished his undergraduate work at TCU in 1965 and went on to the University of Texas in Austin (UT). After earning his graduate degree, he felt disillusioned by the academic and theoretical nature of the school’s MFA program.

In 1967, a newly married Woodson moved to San Francisco. After a series of unsatisfying jobs on the West Coast, he returned to Texas. In 1974, Woodson returned to TCU, only this time as an instructor. The position was initially a one-year, semi-formal appointment. He spent the next 39 years teaching art students how to make art — officially retiring in 2013.

While teaching and post-retirement, Woodson had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Texas, Oklahoma and California. His work is held in the public collections of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the El Paso Museum of Art, the San Antonio Museum of Art and other institutions.

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Interspersed Field Realization, Big Bend, TX
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
"Interspersed Field Realization, Big Bend, Texas," by artist Jim Woodson is oil on canvas. The unframed dimensions are 24 x 48 inches. The artist signed and titled the painting on ve...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

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Canvas, Oil

Unfolding Temporal Manifestation
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
Short Statements on Painting by Jim Woodson (in no particular order): Remember less, Explore More Learn then forget, then look and discover Move Thought into Thinking A verb is more...
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2010s American Realist Jim Woodson Art

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Canvas, Oil

Temporal Conflated Disturbance
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
Short Statements on Painting by Jim Woodson (in no particular order): Remember less, Explore More Learn then forget, then look and discover Move Thought into Thinking A verb is more...
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2010s Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

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Canvas, Oil

Unfolding Temporal Clarifiers
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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2010s Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Resolving Contingent Permutations, High Desert
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

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Canvas, Oil

Recovered Arising Perceived Emanations
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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2010s Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

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Canvas, Oil

Discerned Inward Temporal Saturated Materializations
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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2010s Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

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Canvas, Oil

Emerging Barely Differentiated Presences
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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2010s Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

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Canvas, Oil

Spontaneous Temporal Emanations
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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2010s Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

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Canvas, Oil

Realizing Revealed Contingent Anomalies
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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2010s Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

Materials

Paper, Oil

Interrupting Temporal Emergents Incorporated
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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2010s Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Intermediating Semi-Articulated Mediations No. 3 (High Mesas, NM)
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

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Canvas, Oil

Dimly Arising Approaches Comprehended
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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2010s Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Anticipating Temporal Consequences
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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2010s Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dimly Apprehended Embedding Locality
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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2010s Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

Materials

Paper, Oil, Acrylic

Simultaneous Coalescing Recollections, High Desert
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Reflected Simultaneous Externalizations
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

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Paper, Oil

Integrating Activated Continuum
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Merged Integrating Recollections
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert lands...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Compacted Entry with Vertical Organization
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Temporally Compatible Conceptions No. 2
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert lands...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

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Acrylic, Oil, Paper

Closely Contained Preliminary Anticipations
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert lands...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Post Differentiated Coherences Recollected, New Mexico
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Reflected Simultaneous Coalescence, High Desert
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

Materials

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Revealing Semi-Emerged Premonition
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jim Woodson Art

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Oil

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