Isbn: 9781889921099 - augustus w. dunbier: paint for the love of color (1 Ergebnisse)

Pictorial wrapper. Zustand: As New. 8.5 x 10.25" oblong; Glossy pictorial wrapper; oblong octovo. Plate credits: Great Plains Sky (cover) 20x24 inches 1953, A self portrait - Augustus W. Dunbier (frontispiece) 34x26 inches 1950; Augustus Dunbier was one of the best known artists in the Midwest in the early and mid twentieth century. He as also the first Nebraska artist to paint regularly in the Southwest, where from 1922 he established a seasonal pattern of working in Taos, new Mexico. There he became close friends to artists Walter Ufer and Eanger Couse, members of the legendary Taos Society of Artists. Dunbier painted the mountains of Montana and Colorado, the coasts and harbors of Massachusetts, Maine, Oregon, and Alaska and the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona. the greater part of hid impressionist landscapes were painted close to home in Nebraska where he loved the hills and trees, lakes and rivers, farm scenes and cityscapes. Known as a colorist, his paintings are characterized by assertive, contrasting colors, and bod brushwork. His landscapes were both realistic and capturing of intangibles such as season, temperature and weather, often painting "en plein-air," out-of-doors.…