CURRENT:
INTIMATE LANDSCAPES [solo] Erie Art Museum Erie, Pennsylvania
Gouache paintings from four decades, joined by some large oil paintings from private collections. Part 1: June 11 – November 15, 2026
Europe and America from Acadia to Yosemite Gallery talk – Friday, July 31, 5 – 6:30 pm Part 2: December 11, 2026 – June 2027
National parks, wilderness areas, and old-growth forests, Mississippi River plus more local scenes.
Reception – Friday, December 11, 5-10 pm
For more information on events/purchasing: Intimate Landscapes exhibition
CURRENT:
89th NATIONAL MIDYEAR EXHIBITION Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH July 12 – August 20
[included work, shown in studio photograph: G.H. Old Growth Forest, 36 x 74, oil on linen – winner of the Mastery of Medium, top award in this exhibition]
CURRENT: FLUID: WHAT IS MARINE ART, AND WHAT CAN IT BE? Minnesota Marine Art Museum Winona, Minnesota Curated works from the permanent collection May 2024 – present [painting in photo: Alma’s Buena Vista, 40 x 60, oil on linen]
Recent:
WE, TOO, ARE MADE OF WONDERS Georgia Museum of Art Athens, Georgia an exhibition curated from works in the permanent collection. January – June 2026 [painting in photo: Reckoning After the Flood, 40 x 48, oil on linen]
Recent PRESS
The Vindicator– July 13, 2026 Tribune Chronicle – July 14, 2026 “Butler carries on tradition of championing American art” article by Susan Wojnar about the 89th National Midyear exhibition at Butler Institute of American Art, in which Paquette’s painting G.H. Old-Growth Forest was given the top award, “Mastery of the Medium”
Erie Times-News – June 30, 2026 “Railbound Vision: Thomas Paquette rode the rails to find his way as a landscape painter” front-page article by David Bruce about Paquette’s Erie Art Museum exhibition Times Observer – June 30, 2026 “Two Paquette exhibitions overlap in June”
front-page article in Warren, PA, newspaper about Paquette‘s exhibitions in Erie and Minneapolis, MN
American Art Collector – June 2026 “Love of the Land” feature article by Sarah Gianelli about Paquette’s concurrent exhibitions at Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA; and Lowry Hill Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
More RECENT news
Historical Society of Pennsylvania acquires Paquette sketchbooks
– Sketchbooks from Maine and the South of France, along with two gouache sketches for a 32-foot-wide commissioned canvas, and two oil sketches on paper, were acquired by the HSP in late summer 2025.
sketchbook page, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
On display in the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa into 2025Forbidden Falls, 54 x 38 inches, oil on linen
Glen Onoko (Lower Falls), aka Forbidden Falls, was installed at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada, from 2022-2025. Here’s the link to some of the other 46 Paquette
paintings which U.S. State Department curators have selected
for exhibitions at 21 diplomatic facilities on five continents.
Triptych commission Light in the World triptych, 60 x 120 inches, oil on linen
This installation of a triad of paintings, Light in the World,
was commissioned for the new headquarters of an
international philanthropic organization.
Georgia Museum of Art Collection 2022Arrival at the Collections Study Room, Georgia Museum of Art
The Georgia Museum of Art recently acquired Reckoning after the Flood,
oil on linen, 40 x 48 inches, a key work from the traveling solo museum exhibition
about the Mississippi River, America’s River Re-Explored. It joins two smaller Paquette works in the collection since his solo exhibition. The GMoA hosted Vibrant Excursions in 2000, a one-man exhibition of Paquette’s paintings.
Bemidji State University Art Collection 2022
Paquette at the presentation of the collection
Paintings that had been on long-term loan to the Bemidji State University in Minnesota, were recently gifted to the institution,
establishing a new Permanent Art Collection to augment the university’s renowned Harlow ceramic and extensive Kleven Print Collections.
The works on display at the A.C. Clark Library include a series of large paintings done while Paquette was on a three-year fellowship-residency at the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts in Miami Beach in the early 1990s.
LINK – Listen to a short public radio interview recorded when the paintings were given and the collection was inaugurated. Shown at left is one of the smaller paintings.
Video: A Painting’s Progress 2021
A Painting’s Progress is a short video showing
some of the process creating a large oil painting. LINK to YouTube video
Video: U.S. State Department / Art-in-Embassies 2021
The U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies program has produced a video about Paquette and his forty+ paintings
selected for diplomatic installations on five continents. LINK to YouTube video
Paquette painting in Soderbergh film 2021
Phantom Canyon III, one of the Paquette paintings in the collection of Cunard Line’s
elegant flagship Queen Mary 2, shared the screen with Meryl Streep for long segments of seven scenes in Steven Soderbergh’s 2021 film “Let Them All Talk“.
Recent acquisitions • In 2026, Erie Insurance purchased two new works for their headquarters. • In 2025, Historical Society of Pennsylvania acquired as a gift from the artist two sketchbooks from Maine and the South of France, along with two preparatory gouache sketches for his 32-foot commissioned painting from the State of Minnesota. and two oil sketches on paper. • In 2022, a major private philanthropic organization purchased four site-specific works for their new headquarters. A Paquette triptych in this collection measures 10 feet across by 5 feet high. • In 2022, Georgia Museum of Art acquired a large painting, Reckoning after the Flood, for their collection. • In 2021, five museums acquired new paintings for their collections: The Brinton Museum (Wyoming), Wildling Museum of Art (California), St Bonaventure University Permanent Art Collection (New York), Susquehanna National Heritage Area (Pennsylvania), and Bemidji State University Permanent Art Collection (Minnesota). • In 2020, Minnesota Marine Art Museum acquired the major painting, Alma’s Buena Vista, for their permanent collection. • Also in 2020, Erie Insurance purchased the large oil painting, Cleft [60 x 46 inches, oil on linen] for their collection. • Dubuque Museum of Art and Principia College added Paquette paintings to their permanent collections in 2019 and 2020. • Fox Creek Crossing [64 x 63 inches, oil/canvas] was acquired in 2019 by the Erie Art Museum‘s permanent collection from a private collector in Miami, FL, who bought it when it was shown at the Bass Museum of Art in 1990. • In 2018, the U.S. Department of State acquired Headlands [50 x 40 inches, oil/linen] for permanent installation at the new NATO Headquarters in Brussels. This and selected other Paquette paintings from twenty-one Art in Embassies exhibitions can be seen here. Headlands was originally created for the solo museum exhibition, On Nature’s Terms.
Videos • Gallery Talk, at opening of Living History solo exhibition at Lowry Hill Gallery, May 2026 • On Nature, Instagram live interview at Gross McCleaf Gallery, October 2022 • Thomas Paquette, video produced by William Wallace III, WPSU public television, July 2019 • The United States Department of State’s Art-in-Embassies program has produced a newvideo about Paquette and his forty paintings selected for exhibitions at embassies on five continents. Link:YouTube •A short video discussing the process of painting, using “Ironwood Trail” as an example. • A short video created by Stratos Media Solutions for InScale Architects about the design of the Paquette painting studio. • A short video discussing the small Paquette paintings that are part of the 2020 Brinton Museum exhibition. • A short video introducing the paintings in the 2020 Near Horizons exhibition at Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis. • Video: Introduction to America’s River Re-Explored • Video: Gallery Walk and Talk at the opening of “America’s River Re-Explored” at Minnesota Marine Art Museum.
