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Western Paintings and Sculpture including Contemporary Native American Art Session I
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- Sale 835
Live
| Denver
May 6 | 8:00 AM MDT
Live
| Denver
Sale 835
| Denver
| Denver
Estimate$8,000 – $12,000
Provenance:
Michael Wigley Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Private Collection, acquired from the above
Richard Schmid has often been called an artist’s artist because of the popular classes he teaches as well as the instructional books and videos he has created. In his own work, Schmid has developed a personal poetic approach to realism, and although he is perhaps best known for his nudes and floral still life paintings, he is also a superb painter of landscapes, as seen here in Spring Morning in Gaylordsville, a scene from the Connecticut town where Schimd and his family once resided. Balancing lights and darks, thins and thicks, and keeping his palette cool and limited, Spring Morning in Gaylordsville becomes an ode to the reemergent year, where the structure peeking through the trees, in the light that falls on it, is at one with the process of renewal. You can almost hear the birdsong and the natural world yawning as it awakens.
-James D. Balestrieri
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