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Born 1939 Kent, England. Known for: Panoramic realist landscape and marine painting-plein aire, prints.
Rackstraw Downes was born in Kent, England in 1939. Often described as a realist painter, Downes prefers not to use that term. He views the act of seeing and the art of representation as culturally... Read full biography
Rackstraw Downes was born in Kent, England in 1939. Often described as a realist painter, Downes prefers not to use that term. He views the act of seeing and the art of representation as culturally taught, with different cultures accepting different delineations of the world as realistic. He does... Read full biography
Rackstraw Downes was born in Kent, England in 1939. Often described as a realist painter, Downes prefers not to use that term. He views the act of seeing and the art of representation as culturally taught, with different cultures accepting different delineations of the world as realistic. He does not think of himself as a landscape painter, but as a painter of his surroundings—his environment. Often painted in a panoramic format, Downes's images evince careful attention to details as well as to... Read full biography
Rackstraw Downes was born in Kent, England in 1939. Often described as a realist painter, Downes prefers not to use that term. He views the act of seeing and the art of representation as culturally taught, with different cultures accepting different delineations of the world as realistic. He does not think of himself as a landscape painter, but as a painter of his surroundings—his environment. Often painted in a panoramic format, Downes's images evince careful attention to details as well as to broad expanses of their surroundings. Created plein air in locations as diverse as metropolitan New York, rural Maine, and coastal and inland Texas, and without resorting to the use of photography, his compositions feature horizons that bend... Read full biography
Rackstraw Downes was born in Kent, England in 1939. Often described as a realist painter, Downes prefers not to use that term. He views the act of seeing and the art of representation as culturally taught, with different cultures accepting different delineations of the world as realistic. He does not think of himself as a landscape painter, but as a painter of his surroundings—his environment. Often painted in a panoramic format, Downes's images evince careful attention to details as well as to broad expanses of their surroundings. Created plein air in locations as diverse as metropolitan New York, rural Maine, and coastal and inland Texas, and without resorting to the use of photography, his compositions feature horizons that bend according to the way the eye naturally perceives. Downes often works in series, examining single scenes from multiple angles, over time, and i... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004McGowan, Alison C (Editor)1,512 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997Marquis Who's Who1,515 pagesInk, Paper, Metal, Wood Painters and Sculptors at Crown Point Press
1996Brown, Kathan287 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993Bowker R R1,473 pagesArt Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991Wheeler, Daniel344 pages (color)Sport in Art From American Museums
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Plimpton, George; J. Carter Brown128 pages (color)Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting
1989Arthur, John159 pages (color)The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989Fresella-Lee, Nancy222 pages (color)American Realist Painting 1945-1980
1989Ward, John L431 pagesTransformation of the Avant-Garde The New York Art World 1940-1985
1987Crane, Diana194 pagesDictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987Cummings, Paul653 pages20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art
1987Cummings, Paul176 pages (color)Realism Today: American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection National Academy of Design
1987
(Exhibition catalog)Dobkin, John (Preface); John I.H. Baer, (Essay)120 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986Jaques Cattell Press1,292 pagesAmerican Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985Krantz, Les347 pages (color)Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection
1984Severinghaus, J Walter333 pages (color)Rackstraw Downes
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Yau, John19 pages (color)Perspectives on Contemporary American Realism
1983
(Exhibition catalog)Goodyear, Frank H91 pages (color)A Heritage Renewed Representational Drawing Today
1983
(Exhibition catalog)Plous, Phyllis87 pages (color)Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
1981
(Exhibition catalog)Armstrong, Tom301 pages (color)1981 Biennial Exhibition Whitney Museum
1981
(Exhibition catalog)Armstrong, Tom (Foreward)159 pagesContemporary American Realism Since 1960 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
1981Goodyear, Frank H, Jr.255 pages (color)American Realism and the Industrial Age
1980
(Exhibition catalog)Doezema, Marianne147 pages (color)A Selection of American Art The Skowhegan School 1946-1976
1976Institute of Contemporary Art194 pagesThings Seen
1974Geske, Norman115 pages (color)