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. Paquette judged the paintings for the Plein Air Festival at Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, NY, in late September. |
U.S. Embassy in Ottawa 2022 – 2025 |
Onoko (Lower Falls) is installed at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada, LINK to some of the other 41 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 |
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 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 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> |