In his book “American Tradition in Painting”, John McCoubrey, writes, “Nature, particularly in America, cannot be shaped or hollowed, as European painters, establishing an ideal order, have molded it. Spaciousness is at home in America, not only in our landscapes but in all our painting. Thus, figures in American pictures-like their viewers-are not given an easy mastery of the space they occupy. Rather, they stand in a tentative relation to it, without any illusion of command over it.” My recent work embodies this concept. It looks to American realist, and regionalist painting of the 20’s, and 30’s with the emphasis on a spacious landscape and man’s tentative place in it. Even when building large construction projects man is subordinated to the light and earth and vegetation of the landscape.

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