1980s "Apache Trail Landscape" Impressionist Style Landscape Mixed-Media Painting by James Conaway

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"Apache Trail Landscape" unframed original mixed media watercolor painting and colored pencil on paper by American artist James Conaway. Matted, … more "Apache Trail Landscape" unframed original mixed media watercolor painting and colored pencil on paper by American artist James Conaway. Matted, not framed. Hand signed by the artist, bottom left. Matted Size: 30" x 37", Image Size: 21-1/2" x 29-1/2". Circa 1980s. Condition of both artwork and mat is Excellent. 100 percent guarantee of authenticity. Certificate of Authenticity is included. Make an offer!

BIO:
JAMES CONAWAY (1932 - )

Contemporary Minnesota Painter

The freshness and vitality of James Conaway's colors, added to the excitement generated from his sense of movement across the landscape, gives the viewer a sensation of being propelled above all these abstract shapes as if in a shooting plane heading toward a distant horizon. Conaway will contrast the juxtaposition of large flat areas and areas of great detail with lush, painterly qualities. Although his work can give a totally spontaneous feeling, upon close inspection one can see the lines and shapes that run throughout the painting that makes all elements work together.

The light, textures, forms and colors of the vast space of the Southwestern United States continue to lure this Midwest artist. Born in Illinois and educated at Southern Illinois University and the University of Iowa, where he received his MFA in 1967, he now lives and paints in Minneapolis. "I escape to the desert several times each year," Conaway says, "because I need more visual information and inspiration to keep me going through the long Minnesota winters."

He works in his 1,500 square foot studio in a renovated historic building in the Warehouse District of downtown Minneapolis. Traffic Zone as the building is now called was founded in 1994 as an artists' co-op of 23 mid-career artists. Jim is also a teacher. He taught painting, drawing and ancient art history at the college and university level for 38 years. Since his retirement from teaching in 1996, he has been a full-time artist. Conaway calls his landscapes "studio inventions" and says "they do not exist anywhere." His landscapes have never been about a sense of place, naturalism or realism but are a result of his dialogue with the painting. "This dialogue comes as a result of my experience of drawing in the landscape and my knowledge of classical aesthetics and art history." less