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Why Draw A Landscape?: A Portfolio Of Prints By Contemporary Artists, University Of Richmond Museums
Why Draw A Landscape?: A Portfolio Of Prints By Contemporary Artists, University Of Richmond Museums
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Why Draw a Landscape?: A Portfolio of Prints by Contemporary Artists
August 20 to December 7, 2003
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Introduction
Why Draw a Landscape? features a portfolio of prints on the theme of landscape in contemporary art, commissioned by Crown Point Press in San Francisco and completed in 1999. Each of the eleven participating artists answered the question with a print that attests to the vitality of the natural world.
Collectively, this portfolio includes a diversity of artistic approaches, ranging from documentary accuracy, to expressive images, to abstraction in which areas of colors suggest the …
Erling Sjovold: Recent Paintings, University Of Richmond Museums
Erling Sjovold: Recent Paintings, University Of Richmond Museums
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Erling Sjovold: Recent Paintings
October 16 to December 11, 1999
Marsh Art Gallery
Introduction
Erling Sjovold's exhibition features his recent watercolors and oil paintings, works where the artist's desire to "slow down time" for reflection is the basis for images that even include the element of time as subject matter, both literally and figuratively. Like many artists that are described as "second sight artists," he creates images that require careful looking beyond the surface realism, works that do not reveal their full statements at first sight. His paintings are rich with layers of meaning that lead the viewer to deeper …