New book of gouache paintings: The Intimate Landscape 192 pages / 148 new opaque watercolor paintings. Pre-order now!
Art in Embassies: Monrovia and Ottawa: Onoko Falls will be returning from the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa in early 2025 (contact if interested), while two other paintings are bound for the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia, for the tenure of Ambassador Toner’s post there. Details in next section.
Current exhibition — ending soon!
September 8 – January 5, 2025
Paquette’s award-winning GH Old Growth Forest is on display at The State Museum of Pennsylvania exhibition, Art of the State. Details in next section.
Next solo exhibitions: May 2025 Philadelphia – Gross McCleaf Gallery September 2025Minneapolis – Groveland Gallery
Art of the State exhibition State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg
Selected from among 2,200 entries, Paquette’s GH Old Growth Foresttook 3rd-place award for Painting in The State Museum of Pennsylvania‘s premier annual juried exhibition, Art of the State, which features 96 artworks. The exhibition runs from September 8 until January 5, 2025.
GH Old Growth Forest, 36 x 74 inches, oil on linen
On display in the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa into 2025Onoko (Lower Falls), 54 x 38 inches, oil on linen
Onoko (Lower Falls) is installed at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada.
Here’s the link to some of the other 41 Paquette
paintings which the U.S. State Department has displayed in exhibitions at 21 diplomatic facilities on five continents.
Paintings installed at the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia
Here’s the link to some of the other 41 Paquette
paintings which the U.S. State Department has displayed in exhibitions at 21 diplomatic facilities on five continents.
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, a short video on YouTube, shows
some of the process of developing a recent large oil painting. LINK to YouTube video
U.S. State Department / Art-in-Embassies video 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 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 Jimmy Fallon / Lucas Hedges interview and clip showing Phantom Canyon III. A larger Paquette painting in the ship’s collection,Broken-Limbed Tree, is in the adjoining Windsor Suite.
Selected recent exhibitions (for a more complete list of exhibitions: Resume) 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-Explorednarrated 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 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.
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 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.
