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1923 Tulsa, Oklahoma - 2002 Del Mar, California. Known for: Painting, teaching.
Gibson Byrd (1923-2002). Gibson Byrd, a figurative and landscape painter, was a master of coloristic subtleties and atmospheric effects. Byrd's interest in figurative painting had a long history,... Read full biography
Gibson Byrd (1923-2002). Gibson Byrd, a figurative and landscape painter, was a master of coloristic subtleties and atmospheric effects. Byrd's interest in figurative painting had a long history, going back to the early 1950s. His work emphasized social realism, angst and banality in the twentieth... Read full biography
Gibson Byrd (1923-2002). Gibson Byrd, a figurative and landscape painter, was a master of coloristic subtleties and atmospheric effects. Byrd's interest in figurative painting had a long history, going back to the early 1950s. His work emphasized social realism, angst and banality in the twentieth century, and auto-biographical fantasy. In the early 1980s Byrd turned away from a narrative, psychological approach and focused his attention on the rural landscape. These landscapes focused on rural... Read full biography
Gibson Byrd (1923-2002). Gibson Byrd, a figurative and landscape painter, was a master of coloristic subtleties and atmospheric effects. Byrd's interest in figurative painting had a long history, going back to the early 1950s. His work emphasized social realism, angst and banality in the twentieth century, and auto-biographical fantasy. In the early 1980s Byrd turned away from a narrative, psychological approach and focused his attention on the rural landscape. These landscapes focused on rural southern Wisconsin (including a 10-foot square oil painting modeled on a landscape near Cross Plains that welcomed passengers to the Dane County Regional airport for more than a decade starting in 1988), and also coastal southern California where he... Read full biography
Gibson Byrd (1923-2002). Gibson Byrd, a figurative and landscape painter, was a master of coloristic subtleties and atmospheric effects. Byrd's interest in figurative painting had a long history, going back to the early 1950s. His work emphasized social realism, angst and banality in the twentieth century, and auto-biographical fantasy. In the early 1980s Byrd turned away from a narrative, psychological approach and focused his attention on the rural landscape. These landscapes focused on rural southern Wisconsin (including a 10-foot square oil painting modeled on a landscape near Cross Plains that welcomed passengers to the Dane County Regional airport for more than a decade starting in 1988), and also coastal southern California where he retired to in 1991. His strong feel for the land was in part derived from his Shawnee Indian heritage. Although best known as an oil paint... Read full biography
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