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Michael Godfrey Art

Contemporary American artist Michael Godfrey is a representational landscape artist whose work hangs in many private and corporate collections. Born in Germany in l958 and raised in North Carolina, he earned a BFA in Fine Arts and began his painting career in oils and watercolors. He spends hours field sketching and photographing, preparing for a well-thought-out painting. Typically, he starts a major work using small oil studies done on location. These field studies provide color accuracy and photographs provide special details. Godfrey composes his paintings from on-site sketches in the field and photographic references. In studio, work progresses in successive layers of paint and light is orchestrated to create a painting that appeals to his internal sense of order.

A landscape artist has to have knowledge of many disciplines (geology, chemistry, physics, architecture), to understand the world in which they are trying to create. An artist must observe with the idea that what is observed must be interpreted and distilled. For a landscape artist, it is just as important what is not included in a work as what is eventually laid down.

“I ask myself, ‘what is the dominant truth – is it color, shape of land forms, or time of day.’ I try to understand what I am seeing, so that the final work will capture the visual emotion.” - Michael Godfrey

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Morning Has Broken; Carmel, California
Morning Has Broken; Carmel, California

Morning Has Broken; Carmel, California

By Michael Godfrey

Located in Pasadena, CA

Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist. Signed "Michael Godfrey" on lower left FRAMED: 30.75" x 42.75" x 1.375" UNFRAMED: 24" ...

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2010s Realist Michael Godfrey Art

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Canvas, Oil

Morning Surf, Garrapata
Morning Surf, Garrapata

Morning Surf, Garrapata

By Michael Godfrey

Located in Pasadena, CA

Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "Godfrey" on lower right FRAMED: 14.25" x 14.25" x 1.75" UNFRAMED: 8" x 8" Exhibited Monumental Miniatures 2022...

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2010s Realist Michael Godfrey Art

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Oil, Panel

Morning at Rocky Point
Morning at Rocky Point

Morning at Rocky Point

By Michael Godfrey

Located in Pasadena, CA

Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "Godfrey" on lower right FRAMED: 12.25" x 15.375" x 1.75" UNFRAMED: 6" x 9" Exhibited Monumental Miniatures 202...

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2010s Realist Michael Godfrey Art

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Oil, Panel

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