With a stringent palette and relentless attention to topographical landmarks as well as the distances between them, Patrick George imposed an intimate order on the pastoral landscape.
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920, an exhibition of “vital naturalism,” now on view at the Florence Griswold Museum
Degas and Van Gogh shared common ground in their disdain for convention, or more to the point, a willingness to circumvent conventional means when necessary, which is to say frequently.
I’m lucky in the sense that I am able to portray my feelings with a brush rather easily. I don’t know whether I can attribute this to slow accumulation over a lifetime—looking at so many paintings, the careful observation of everything.
Welliver’s palette, devoid of earth tones, was chosen to suggest the presence of air and to create an image that would parallel, rather than replicate, the luminosity of nature.