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Quick CURRENT and UPCOMING news


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 Connoisseur
magazine
Preview, by Peter Trippi, of Paquette’s one-man Gross McCleaf Gallery exhibition “Haven”


New gouache paintings book
More info / Order here

Some RECENT news items


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 2025

Onoko Falls painting
Onoko (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 2024

Sanctuary Between the Cities, 28 x 42, oil on linen
 

Sky Ascending, 36 x 46 inches, oil on linen
Sky Ascending, 36 x 46 inches, oil on linen

Triptych commission

Light in the World, 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
2022

Arrival at the Collections Study Room, Georgia Museum of Art
Arrival 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
Painting with Meryl Streep in Let Them All Talk
 

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 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

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