| Quick updates | American Art Collector magazine [Sep-Oct 2023] features Paquette’s work in a special collectors’ article titled Stepping Out by John O’Hern. In another call to jury duty, Paquette judges the works from the Plein Air Festival at Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, NY, September 16. Three Paquette gouache paintings were selected for an exhibition honoring the Centennial of the Allegheny National Forest, opening at the Crary Art Gallery regional museum in Warren, Pennsylvania, September 22. |
| U.S. Embassy in Ottawa 2022 – 2025
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Onoko (Lower Falls) was selected for installation at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada, See here some of the other 40 Paquette paintings which the U.S. State Department has displayed |
| Triptych commission
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This triad of paintings, Light in the World, was commissioned for the |
| Georgia Museum of Art Collection 2022 
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The Georgia Museum of Art recently acquired Reckoning after the Flood, oil on linen, 40 x 48 inches, |
| 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, LINK – Listen to a short public radio interview recorded when the paintings were given and the collection was inaugurated. |
| Video: A Painting’s Progress 2021  |
A Painting’s Progress, a short video on YouTube, shows |
| U.S. State Department / Art-in-Embassies video 2021  |
The U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies program |
| Paquette painting in Soderbergh film 2021  |
Phantom Canyon III, one of the Paquette paintings in the collection of Cunard Line’s elegant transatlantic steamship Queen Mary 2, shares the screen several times with Meryl Streep in Steven Soderbergh’s recent film “Let Them All Talk“. The painting was prominently shown for long segments of seven scenes. LINK to YouTube video A larger Paquette painting in the ship’s collection, Broken-Limbed Tree, is in the adjoining Windsor Suite. LINK to news article: “From Canvas to Silver Screen, Local Artist’s Work Displayed in Streep, Soderbergh Film“ |
| Selected recent exhibitions (for a more complete list of exhibitions, please see CV) 2023 SOLO: Nature as Muse. Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY 2022 SOLO: On Nature. Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2021 SOLO: From the North. Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2020 Here and There. EVOKE Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 2020 SOLO: Near Horizons. Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2020 SOLO: Thomas Paquette: From the Surface. James K. Schmidt Gallery, Principia College, Elsah, IL 2019 SOLO: Thomas Paquette: Defined by Water. Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2018 –2019 SOLO traveling museum exhibition: America’s River Re-Explored – Paintings of Mississippi from Source to Gulf Videos for this exhibition: • Introduction to America’s River Re-Explored narrated by Thomas Paquette • Gallery “Walk and Talk” at Minnesota Marine Art Museum |
Recent acquisitions
• 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 Storm, 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.
| Recent videos • On Nature, Instagram LIVE interview with Morgan Hobbs of 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 new video 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. |
| Recent interviews, articles and reviews [more complete bibliography here] • Nature as Muse, Art Sync interview with Elizabeth Johnson, October 2022 • A Road Leading Many Places, International Artist magazine, October/November 2021 • Preview: From the North: Thomas Paquette, by John O’Hern, American Art Collector magazine, November 2021 • Thomas Paquette, WPSU public television, produced by William Wallace III, July 2019 • Life on the Mississippi by Rochelle Belsito, American Art Collector, April 2019 • A conversation with painter Thomas Paquette by Katie Carter, KBXE-FM and Minnesota NPR affiliate stations, September 2018 – also: Giving Back to Inspire the Future • Artist carries his work and its message to a wide audience interview with NPR Morning Edition host Jay Moran, WBFO-FM, Buffalo, NY, September 2018 • The Mississippi and More. Thomas Paquette of Warren has his own style by Brian R. Sheridan, Lake Erie Lifestyle Magazine, July 2018 • Atmospheric Lands by John D. O’Hern, American Art Collector magazine, September 2018 • America’s River Re-Explored by Charley Parker, Lines and Colors blog, July 2018 • What Might Happen? Thomas Paquette’s Mississippi River Odyssey by John Hulsey, The Artist’s Road, June 2018 • Thomas Paquette’s Visions of the Mississippi River by Dean Klinkenberg, Mississippi Valley Traveler, April 2018 <More Bibliography here> |