![]() Hurley became attached to the fantastic beauty of cloud-enhanced skies over incredible landforms when he flew military aircraft over almost half the world. Hurley articulately communicates his awe as well as his scientific understanding of nature to the viewer. Hurley finds it difficult to meet the demand for his large romantic mountain filled landscapes under fantastically lit billowing cloud formations. His persistence resulted in major commissions and inclusion in the finest art collections. Instead I spent hours in museums and galleries in front of the best paintings I could find so that I could learn how to paint well,” Hurley said. I was tempted to go back to college but was advised not to because I had a unique vision that probably wouldn’t survive the tearing down process of academia. “I knew to get good at anything you had to work and study hard. “When I told my family I wanted to be a professional artist I was disowned, divorced and denigrated as some kind of crazy man,” Hurley said during a studio visit.ĭespite the reactions of friends and family Hurley persisted and, though it took years of struggle, became renown for his mastery of the western landscape. Their works range from spectacular mountains under heavenly skies, abstracted details, modernist inspired aerial views to glowing sunlit trees and crumbling architecture.Įngineer, military pilot, attorney and widely acclaimed landscape painter Wilson Hurley fell in love with New Mexico’s landscape as a child but didn’t become a fulltime artist until he was in his forties. New Mexico is especially magnetic to artists who are dazzled by the variety of landscape elements, deep canyons, high mountains, vast deserts and the clear dry air that adds countless miles to ones ordinary field of vision.Ĭontemporary artists Wilson Hurley, Alan Paine Radebaugh, Elmer Schooley and Doris Steider live and paint in New Mexico. Though he took artistic license for compositional and other purely aesthetic ends Bierstadt was essentially a truthful depicter of our sensational landscape.Īmerican artist Thomas Moran was a visual Shakespeare of the American West who convinced Congress, through his rapturously eloquent murals, to set aside the lands surrounding Yellowstone as a national park.īierstadt, Moran and other Hudson River painters who rendered the West left behind an inspirational legacy that spawned generations of artists who painted in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. ![]() When German born landscape artist Albert Bierstadt painted his sublime panoramas of the American West during the 1850s he was seen by many to be a painter of fiction. ![]() Since the Hudson River School first received critical acclaim in the 1820s American landscape painting has grown toward domination of the genre with dramatically romantic vistas, breathtaking waterfalls, frighteningly beautiful canyons and stunningly vast horizons. It evolved during the Renaissance to become fully realized in Europe by the Barbizon painters of mid-19th century France. Landscape painting was born on the walls of ancient temples and in the villas of Pompeii. Print this page using your web browser for a copy of the resource list. Scroll down to see a resource list of related galleries and artist studios with links.
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