WOODY GWYN
American, b. 1944
Woody Gwyn is considered one of America’s foremost contemporary landscape painters. He is known for vibrant panoramas that contrast nature with manmade structures. Giving equal importance to foreground and background, his subjects include Western mesas, wooded clearings, highways and roadsides, and long stretches of ocean. As the American landscape evolves, Gwyn familiarizes us to the shifts. His art embraces landscape as something bigger than us. The scale of many of his panoramas is so great that standing too close renders them abstract. One must step back for perspective.
Woody Gwyn was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1944, and raised in Midland, Texas. Mentored by artist Peter Hurd, he studied at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as well as with Andrew Wyeth and his family. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in national and international museums including Le Centre Nationale des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France; the Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel; the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery of George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe.
Texas Tech University Press produced his monograph, Woody Gwyn, which records his significant contributions to contemporary landscape painting. He received the 2010 New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, New Mexico's highest artistic honor.
Gwyn currently lives and paints in Galisteo, New Mexico..
American, b. 1944
Woody Gwyn is considered one of America’s foremost contemporary landscape painters. He is known for vibrant panoramas that contrast nature with manmade structures. Giving equal importance to foreground and background, his subjects include Western mesas, wooded clearings, highways and roadsides, and long stretches of ocean. As the American landscape evolves, Gwyn familiarizes us to the shifts. His art embraces landscape as something bigger than us. The scale of many of his panoramas is so great that standing too close renders them abstract. One must step back for perspective.
Woody Gwyn was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1944, and raised in Midland, Texas. Mentored by artist Peter Hurd, he studied at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as well as with Andrew Wyeth and his family. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in national and international museums including Le Centre Nationale des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France; the Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel; the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery of George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe.
Texas Tech University Press produced his monograph, Woody Gwyn, which records his significant contributions to contemporary landscape painting. He received the 2010 New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, New Mexico's highest artistic honor.
Gwyn currently lives and paints in Galisteo, New Mexico..
SOLD - Tourists II, Oil on Canvas, 60 x 70 inches
SOLD - Clouds Over Highway, Oil on paper, 28 x 41 1/2 inches, 34 x 47 3/4 inches framed, signed lower right
SOLD - Old Homestead, Gouache on board, Signed lower right, 21 3/4 x 27 1/2 inches
Railroad Crossing, Gouache on board, Signed lower left, 12 1/4 x 27 1/4 inches
SOLD - Last February, 1967-68, Oil on panel, 27 x 37 inches