July Lecture in the Catskills

This coming July 8th at 7 pm in the Catskill Mountains of New York, I’ll be a one-day guest lecturer at the <a href="http://grandcentralacademy.classicist.org/workshopslandscape.html">Grand Central Academy’s Summer Workshops</a> for a presentation on color and light.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7XrW7JXKAZtsI0JIh99CpLsJ2eyR1-6bjZ_hc9zh113WbyzQ_3BV8s8CkW8XaqEAlsT0pZ9JXNMKVx1rSEeWhR5phItxKhjRaTDYtv3uVpRBIiDBEibYHVf-L5hIioc8tj9Jjhs-kyzI/s1600/Tom_Kegler.sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7XrW7JXKAZtsI0JIh99CpLsJ2eyR1-6bjZ_hc9zh113WbyzQ_3BV8s8CkW8XaqEAlsT0pZ9JXNMKVx1rSEeWhR5phItxKhjRaTDYtv3uVpRBIiDBEibYHVf-L5hIioc8tj9Jjhs-kyzI/s400/Tom_Kegler.sm.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />I’ll give an evening lecture during the workshop of Senior Hudson River Fellow, <a href="http://www.thomaskegler.com/">Thomas Kegler</a> (above). His week-long course called “Field Study for the Studio Landscape Painter.” Tom’s work has the rare quality of being closely observed and poetically inspired, and he could have held his own with any of the traditional Hudson River School painters (Kegler's "Buffalo Creek Dusk," below).  <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt_ETptH3bSuPFud3EZb0DxEW6TPJXrj3qFYbxVBwDZDej6bILVm0h56wVtaaWBf2-czyA_okZ_iQcQQkXOgh4IY-r_M6yvfTpoJuS2BTrjUz5iCyQKQ3UZYDWq7ai7BN9_5YyyanNdzE/s1600/Kegler.landscape.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt_ETptH3bSuPFud3EZb0DxEW6TPJXrj3qFYbxVBwDZDej6bILVm0h56wVtaaWBf2-czyA_okZ_iQcQQkXOgh4IY-r_M6yvfTpoJuS2BTrjUz5iCyQKQ3UZYDWq7ai7BN9_5YyyanNdzE/s400/Kegler.landscape.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />My lecture will cover material from the new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Color-Light-Guide-Realist-Painter/dp/0740797719/ref=pd_ts_b_16?ie=UTF8&s=books"><i>Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter, </i></a>geared for plein air painters who want to explore the methods of the pre-impressionist Hudson River School Painters. Besides the digital slide show, I’ll have original paintings to show and books to share. If it’s like last time I visited, there will be plenty of opportunity for camaraderie and shop talk.<br /><br />The full course will go from July 5 - 17, 2011 (10 instructed days, 1 free uninstructed day). The tuition is $1350, which includes Mr. Kegler’s instruction, park fees, 2 group meals, and my lecture. The class is open and is now accepting registrations.<br />-----<br />Previous GJ Posts on the Hudson River Fellowship.<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Color-Light-Guide-Realist-Painter/dp/0740797719/ref=pd_ts_b_16?ie=UTF8&s=books"><i>Color and Light</i> on Amazon</a><br /><a href="http://grandcentralacademy.classicist.org/workshopslandscape.html">Grand Central Academy's Summer Workshops</a><br /><a href="http://www.thomaskegler.com/">Senior Hudson River Fellow, Thomas Kegler</a>

July Lecture in the Catskills

This coming July 8th at 7 pm in the Catskill Mountains of New York, I’ll be a one-day guest lecturer at the Grand Central Academy’s Summer W...

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True to Nature

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Gxn23d2_CvjspSyK4XepuzBHFftTXdLmz-I8B1_IXHEdayyPwTzPL1nvgWBrqgcxuqudBNI1ak4kpTcMOSSDhUdIdI-6NbF3yqIO668pKUVK625FAPD5LqVLWK0un5grzffIKsfCXUjm/s1600/William-Trost-Richards-Rock-Cliffs-and-Cove.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Gxn23d2_CvjspSyK4XepuzBHFftTXdLmz-I8B1_IXHEdayyPwTzPL1nvgWBrqgcxuqudBNI1ak4kpTcMOSSDhUdIdI-6NbF3yqIO668pKUVK625FAPD5LqVLWK0un5grzffIKsfCXUjm/s1600/William-Trost-Richards-Rock-Cliffs-and-Cove.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Gxn23d2_CvjspSyK4XepuzBHFftTXdLmz-I8B1_IXHEdayyPwTzPL1nvgWBrqgcxuqudBNI1ak4kpTcMOSSDhUdIdI-6NbF3yqIO668pKUVK625FAPD5LqVLWK0un5grzffIKsfCXUjm/s400/William-Trost-Richards-Rock-Cliffs-and-Cove.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />A<a href="http://www.amazon.com/William-Trost-Richards-Drawings-Watercolors/dp/0856676780/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1287938562&sr=1-1"> new book</a> about American landscape painter William Trost Richards describes the artist’s tribulations while painting the sea from life. Richards says: <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>“I watch and watch it, try to disentangle its push and leap and recoil, make myself ready to catch the tricks of the big breakers and am always startled out of my self possession by the thunder and the rush, jump backward up the loose shingle of the beach, sure this time that I will be washed away, get soaked with spray, and am ashamed that I had missed getting the real drawing of such a splendid one, and this happens twenty times an hour and I have never got used to it.”</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZEVnm16t28zIPwSRef3t5A7Ro8q-vT_td715TfcDERodybZ6YGtJ0mVxJ7IlegJsqi6V8rL9hNkhz_Gh3jUsDlrhi0Y-w8Nx34Vjn2BIV9J1KMhpa9ZF74zmD80htRtShSJRn5FbHao2-/s1600/William-Trost-Richards-Trees-and-Rocks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZEVnm16t28zIPwSRef3t5A7Ro8q-vT_td715TfcDERodybZ6YGtJ0mVxJ7IlegJsqi6V8rL9hNkhz_Gh3jUsDlrhi0Y-w8Nx34Vjn2BIV9J1KMhpa9ZF74zmD80htRtShSJRn5FbHao2-/s400/William-Trost-Richards-Trees-and-Rocks.jpg" width="293" /></a></div><br />The book was produced by the Cantor Arts Center of Stanford University in California, based on the sizable collection of WTR’s studies inherited by his youngest son in 1905 and donated to the museum in 1992. <br /><br />The 9.5 x 11-inch book has over 204 pages, with 250 color reproductions documenting the entire collection at Stanford. It includes his Ruskin-influenced early pencil studies of plants, his Adirondack landscapes, and his seascape studies in gouache and oil. Trost Richards was the king of gouache landscape, often working on toned paper to capture transitory atmospheric and aquatic effects.  <br /><br />The emphasis is on his small plein-air studies, which rival those of Frederic Church, Peder Monsted and Ivan Shishkin for impeccably accurate observation. Because Richards worked in this mode well after it was fashionable (he called  himself a “fogy”), he is not as well known as he deserves to be.   <br /><br /><br />---------<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/William-Trost-Richards-Drawings-Watercolors/dp/0856676780/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1287938562&sr=1-1">William Trost Richards—True to Nature: Drawings, Watercolors, and Oil Sketches at Stanford University,</a> by Carole M. Osborne. <br /><a href="http://museum.stanford.edu/index.html">Cantor Arts Center’s</a> recent exhibit ended September 26.<br />Previous GJ posts on Trost Richards: "<a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/02/outer-limits-of-pencil.html">Outer Limits of the Pencil</a>," "<a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/12/trost-richards-watercolor.html">Trost Richards Watercolor</a>," "<a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/09/called-away.html">Called Away</a>,"<br />Thanks, Margaret!

True to Nature

A new book about American landscape painter William Trost Richards describes the artist’s tribulations while painting the sea from life. R...

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