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Charles Kanwischer

(Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1962 - )

Dark, Gray, Light

2000-2001

Graphite on gessoed paper

18 x 22 x 1 in. (45.7 x 55.9 x 2.5 cm)

Collection of the Akron Art Museum

Gift of the artist

2005.25

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Many of Kanwischer’s drawings of trees have soft, diffuse forms. Like American landscape painters at the turn-of-the-twentieth-century, he purposefully minimizes detail in order to emphasize mood. “I quote landscape tradition consciously,” he says, “but the digital sourcing of my work is very methodical, and that keeps the images from becoming too sentimental.”

Keywords
Landscapes
Trees
Drawings
Ohio