Maine / Turkey. 1921 - 1998
Landscape, interior, still life
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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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Abstract painting, wood animal sculpture, commercial art
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Maine, Hawaii, California. 1916 - 1991
Modernist sea-landscape, non objective
Delaware, Maine. 1875 - 1952
Landscape, coastal views and genre painting
New York, Maine / Russian Federation. 1887 - 1946
Seascape, landscape, and portrait painting, mural
Maine. 1831 - 1903
Landscape and marine painting, printmaking
California, Maine / England. 1831 - 1915
Landscape, marine, and portrait painter, survey artist
Maine, Pennsylvania. Born 1947
Mod face-artifact-word, collage
New York. Born 1949
Sculptor-large-scale abstraction
New York, Massachusetts. 1896 - 1984
Marine, interiors, cities and landscape paintings
New York, Maine. 1912 - 1995
Modernist-leaning landscape-figure-genre, engraver
Maine, California. 1903 - 1984
Landscape, marine, genre and figure painting
New York, Maine, Massachusetts. 1893 - 1958
Marine, landscape and genre painting
Maine, Vermont. 1917 - 2017
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Maine, New York / Italy. 1906 - 2000
Highly abstract painting, marine, figure and landscape
Massachusetts, Maine, New Mexico. 1928 - 2015
Coastal landscape, marine and figure painting, illustration
New York, Maine, California. 1887 - 1968
Modernist landscape, figure and genre painting
Maine, Massachusetts. 1846 - 1925
Marine, coastal landscape
New York / Greece. 1890 - 1967
Abstract, non-objective painting, collage, mixed-media
New York, Maine / Sweden. 1887 - 1971
Landscape, ballet figure and genre painting
New York, New Jersey / Hungary. 1886 - 1952
Figure-nude, still life and portrait painting
New York, New Jersey, North Carolina / Netherlands, Belgium. 1829 - 1905
Landscape, figure, genre and portrait painting, teaching
Pennsylvania, Connecticut. 1883 - 1976
Landscape, portrait and marine painting
New York, New Mexico. 1923 - 2013
Conceptual art, collage, constructions
New York, Tennessee. Born 1937
Assemblage, pop-art painting, circus themes, whimsy
New York, Connecticut. 1956 - 2022
Modern figure painting; cartoonish collages
Massachusetts. 1871 - 1953
Landscape, genre and botanic painting
New York, California, Maine. 1887 - 1966
Abstract sculpture, modernist landscape and figure painting
Massachusetts, New York, Illinois. 1864 - 1931
Impressionist marine and shore-harbor views painting
Massachusetts / Europe. 1849 - 1903
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