DANIEL BLAGG (American, b. 1951). Wooded Landscape with River, 1988. Oil on canvas. 128-1/2 x 96-1/2 inches (326.4 x 245...

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DANIEL BLAGG (American, b. 1951)
Wooded Landscape with River, 1988
Oil on canvas
128-1/2 x 96-1/2 inches (326.4 x 245.1 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: Daniel Blagg 88

Fort Worth artist Dan Blagg is well known in the Texas arts community for his striking images of both rural and urban landscapes. When painting the natural landscape of Texas, as he does in Wooded Landscape with River, Blagg often eschews the sweeping vistas found in the work of other Texas artists in favor of more intimate compositions, focusing on a single turn of a river bend where the only hint of sky is reflected in the water. The scale of this monumental painting plays on tension between formal abstraction and a faithful rendering of the subject. From a distance one feels as if they could step into the life-sized canvas, but when viewing it up close the viewer is overwhelmed by its abstract style and painterly rhythms.




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