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In a recent article, the New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl described the landscape artist Rackstraw Downes’s work as evidence that “painting can be truer than photography,” and looking at the ...

His “passion for facts, his desire for exactitude, makes for a sort of urgent dryness, an excruciatingly low-keyed, almost insensible skin-of-the-teeth element of poetry in his painting.” That’s from ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. "Paint what you see! Paint what you see!" so exclaims Stanley Lewis to a ...

British-born artist, teacher, editor and writer Rackstraw Downes will speak on “Thoughts of a Painter” April 30. There will be a reception at 5:30 p.m., and the lecture begins at 6 p.m. at the ...

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A native of England who has spent more than two-thirds of his life in the United States, a painter who studied English literature at college and remains very much a writer and literary man, and a ...

""Just the facts,"" a phrase much invoked in discussions of Downes' work, is elevated to an aesthetic practice by these three essays and more than 100 plates. Typically producing realistic landscapes ...

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Betty Cuningham Gallery January 24 - March 1, 2008 Rackstraw Downes’ paintings reveal the material function of the American landscape. He works onsite, with attention to the slow, unfolding process of ...