Zapata Evening by Russ Tanner
Zapata Evening by Russ Tanner
20x24" Original Oil Painting on Linen
27x31" framed
Signed lower left
Landscape painting of southwestern Colorado.
Artwork is in excellent, original condition
The sale of this painting benefits the Thompson Education Foundation Homelessness Assistance Program as part of the Colorado Governor's Art Show fundraising efforts and the generous donation by the artist.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
A landscape artist of the west, Russ- Tanner captures light, color and expansiveness in his Plein Air and Studio paintings. His passion- for expressing mountains and vistas represent a window to this world through his eye and his brushwork. He followed his heart’s passion, becoming a full time artist in 1992, with a degree from The American Academy of Art, honing his artistic skills as an illustrator for Hallmark Cards and in commercial art, advertising and design arenas. Influenced by the art of John F Carson, Edgar Payne, and Nicholai Fechin, Russ works in a broad-brush impressionist style, grounded in his own style of painterly realism. His attention to color and value, by painting from life, along with design, add a dimension to his paintings that have been recognized by both collector and art critics.
As a Signature Member of Oil Painters of America, he exhibits in national and regional shows. His work can be seen in major galleries in New Mexico, Wyoming, Texas and Utah and in national and international corporate and private collections. Tanner’s art is of the land itself, a testament to its wide-open spaces, to the beauty of it-s high mountain majesty and of its hard, angular places. He has been inspired by the majesty of the Southwestern mountain ranges and the subtle beauty of the deserts. His love of nature and places of beauty are conveyed by his -honest realism mixed with the softer subtleties of impressionism.
The recipient of a Merit Award from the 1997 Oil Painters of America National Show and voted a signature member of OPA, Russ has exhibited in numerous national and regional competitions. His painting A Room with a View was awarded Top 100 finalist in the 2002 Art for the Parks Painting Competition.
