Next solo exhibitions Opens soon! May 3 – 31, 2025 Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Haven
NEW PAINTINGS FOR THIS SHOW WILL BE POSTED SOON – be alerted by email. Opening reception May 3rd, 1-4 pm 2026-2027 / January 2026 – Spring 2027 Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania: The Intimate Landscape 2026 / May 30 – July 4 Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Next group exhibition August 2 – September 2, 2025 Crary Art Gallery, Warren, Pennsylvania: National Parks and Beyond
In Print Summer 2025 edition Pittsburgh Quarterly magazine Review, by poet Fred Shaw, of Paquette’s new book “The Intimate Landscape” [shown at right]
May 2025 edition Fine Art Connoisseurmagazine
Preview, by Peter Trippi, of Paquette’s one-man Gross McCleaf Gallery exhibition “Haven”
Paquette’s prize-winning G.H. Old Growth Forest [right] was featured in Art of the State exhibition at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, ending January, 2025.
G.H. 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) was installed at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada from 2022-2025,
and is now available at Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia. Here’s the link to some of the other 41 Paquette
paintings which the U.S. State Department has selected
for exhibitions at 21 diplomatic facilities on five continents.
Paintings selected for exhibition at the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia 2024Sanctuary Between the Cities, 28 x 42, 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, 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, was prominently shown with Meryl Streep for long segments of seven scenes in Steven Soderbergh’s film “Let Them All Talk“.
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.
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.
