Jack Stuppin creates landscapes that celebrate nature, but he is certainly not a traditional plein-air artist. As Susan Krane of the San Jose Museum of Art explains, “Stuppin’s landscapes are amplified, as if quick glimpses that he has forever exalted and memorialized. The scenes he offers the viewer are held taut, orderly patterned and captured in brilliant Technicolor. They may remind us of the modernist masters of metaphorical landscapes (from Grant Wood to Marsden Hartley to Arthur Dove), and of images that are part and parcel of Americana.”
In his essay, highly-respected art critic Donald Kuspit relates the work to the writing of Walt Whitman, noting that the paintings are “…realistic and idealistic at the same time, reminding us that one without the other is existentially incomplete.”
- softcover ISBN – 978-0-938175-40-7
- hardcover ISBN – 978-0-938175-41-4
- published by the San Jose Museum of Art, California and Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, California
- written by Susan Landauer and Donald Kuspit
- format: softcover and clothbound with dustjacket
- dimensions: 9.25” x 9.25”
- 72 page plus cover / 43 color plates
- publication year: 2008
- softcover: $25
- hardcover: $35
- order number: softcover: FAP-105S / hardcover: FAP-105-H
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- FAP-105
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- Songs of the Earth: Landscapes by Jack Stuppin
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