Of our major artists, J. Alden Weir is one of the least likely to inspire impassioned tribute. It’s not for lack of effort; in fact, the problem is that he tried too hard.
You have to make a choice each time you draw. It is striking how different artists will be attracted to different landscape elements. That is one of the exciting aspects of landscape drawing and painting.
Seven of Jerry Weiss’s landscape paintings will appear in an exhibition at the Main Street Gallery of Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek, in Chester, Connecticut.
“The sketchbook is the work of art not a preliminary to it,” writes James Lancel McElhinney in his 76-page volume Mapping & Mobility: The Sketchbook Art of James Lancel McElhinney, Volume 1.