Jean Richardson – Intimado

650,00

Etch by Jean Richardson (1940-….)

  • State: Excellent condition
  • Total dimensions: 68,5 x 53 cm (unframed)
  • Dimensions picture: 45,5 x 30 cm (unframed)
  • Signed: Yes, in pencil (lower right corner)
  • Numbered: 11/99 (lower left corner)

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Jean Richardson in born in Hollis, Oklahoma, 1940

The image of the horse is the perfect vehicle to express my true subjects; motion and energy. The horse as a real being is lovely in itself and I enjoy the power, the speed, and the physical beauty of the animal. My paintings, however, take this real image and make it a symbol. The horse as a metaphor for the human spirit; unbridled, striving, sometimes heroic, often restless, full of energy, floating above us, calling us to other realms.

I propose that this is not a new theme. Every culture has had at the center of its stories about itself a mythical figure of the horse. From the incredible images on the walls of prehistoric caves, to the tales of Norse mythology, to the modern play “Equus”, the horse has been powerfully represented in the arts.

In this tradition, but in the contemporary vocabulary of twentieth century painting, I have tried to explore my subject and find therein my own emotional response.

Jean Richardson is an artist best known for her large, abstract paintings of horses. Using a palette of jewel tones and deep earthen hues, she splashes colors across a heavily textured background letting her image emerge. Almost hidden in an explosion of brush strokes, the horses of Richardson’s imagination plunge and leap across her canvas.

An Oklahoma native, Richardson has had a lifelong interest in Western “myth”. Although she uses the contemporary vocabulary of modern painting, she finds deep connections to the frontier west.
“Jean Richardson paintings seem to express to us the spirit and energy of the American West. The wild abstracted horses of her ‘Sky Herds’ are like a pageant acted out upon the grand stage of the prairie skies. Yet the subject matter is only incidental to the emotional content of these paintings, where exuberance, grace, energy, and joy are the themes woven into painterly, textured canvasses.

Public Collections
The Bank of Santa Fe, New Mexico
University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, Oklahoma
Southwestern Bell, Washington, D.C.
Phillips Petroleum Corporation, Washington, D.C.
Arthur Anderson Companies, St. Charles, Illinois
Marriott Hotels Corporation, Washington, D.C.
State Collection of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
AT&T, San Ramon, California
Yellow Freight, Kansas City, Missouri
Raymond James Financial, Inc., St. Petersburg, Florida
Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Tupperware Corporation, Orlando, Florida

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