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Rackstraw Downes

Rackstraw Downes (Born 1939) is active/lives in New York, Texas / England.  Rackstraw Downes is known for Panoramic realist landscape and marine painting-plein aire, prints.

Rackstraw Downes was born in Kent, England in 1939. Often described as a realist painter, Downes prefers not to use that term. He views the act of seeing and the art of representation as culturally taught, with different cultures accepting different delineations of the world as realistic. He does not think of himself as a landscape painter, but as a painter of his surroundings—his environment.

Often painted in a panoramic format, Downes's images evince careful attention to details as well as to broad expanses of their surroundings. Created plein air in locations as diverse as metropolitan New York, rural Maine, and coastal and inland Texas, and without resorting to the use of photography, his compositions feature horizons that bend according to the way the eye naturally perceives.

Downes often works in series, examining single scenes from multiple angles, over time, and in the process reveals changing qualities of light and shadow as well as changes in his own point of   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3679 characters.]  Artist bio

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The Pulp Mills at Madison

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Olsen's Reunion , 1982

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APPROACH TO THE HOLLAND TUNNEL WITH 75 VARICK , 1989

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110th and BROADWAY , 1978-80

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In the High Island Oil Field , 1988

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Penobscot Poultry Garage, Belfast, Maine

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