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Number 72 – August 27, 2024
State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg
Art of the State
My painting titled GH Old-Growth Forest (below) is on display in the State Museum of Pennsylvania’s
prestigious annual juried exhibition Art of the State. It is accompanied by 95 artworks chosen from 2,200 entries.
The exhibition runs from September 8 through January 5, 2025.
GH Old-Growth Forest, 36 x 74 inches, oil on linen, 2024
Focusing on old-growth forests
The subject of my painting in the State Museum exhibition, old growth forest, has been a strong focus in my work for the last couple years. Such lands are rare in the East, with only less than 1% of the original forest still intact here. I have always loved experiencing and painting these rare remnants of nature, lands granted free rein to develop entirely naturally. I will write more about this when the paintings are unveiled in my two 2025 solo exhibitions: (Gross McCleaf Gallery/Philadelphia/May and Groveland Gallery/Minneapolis/September).
Cover of the new book “The Intimate Landscape”
A new gouaches book in the works
Before Christmas, a new book of my gouache paintings (the little guys) will be published. Compared to my prior book of gouache paintings, this one will have 50% more pages and paintings, and will measure slightly larger, easily accommodating full-size reproductions of these small paintings. The Intimate Landscape will feature new paintings finished after my prior book on the subject, Gouaches, went to press in 2006. Barbara L. Jones, Curator Emerita at Westmoreland Museum of American Art, writes the foreword. Ordering details will be included in an upcoming newsletter.
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