Kentucky Avenue Winter (Very Large Original by Celebrated New Orleans Artist)

About the Item: We have a smaller painting by the same artist in our inventory that came with its COA from the fine Cole Pratt gallery in New Orleans, reflecting the $7,600 price of that one in 2017. This is significantly larger - with a more urban, industrial color palette. Richard Johnson's powerful abstract paintings with their distinctive 3D components are easily recognizable in New Orleans, where his paintings have become iconic. He is lesser-known nationally, so we are thrilled to present one of his paintings here, with another to follow before too long. Like most of his paintings, it is large, and has a lot of wall-power! His use of illusionistic shadows makes certain forms pop off the canvas. Ready to hang.

Proudly presented by Guy Lyman Fine Art, New Orleans, with our firm guarantee.

The following is an artist bio we pulled from AskArt:

Biography from Figge Art Museum/Davenport Art Museum

Richard Johnson's abstract paintings have always been about juxtapositions, about explosions of jagged masses next to crisply masked streaks of color both above smoky, air-brushed shadows. An interest in the ancient technique of trompe l'oeil (fool the eye) painting allows Johnson to layer hyperrealist mechanical imagery (resembling welded steel pipes) and "crumpled paper" with abstract expressionist splatters. Johnson, a long time professor of painting at the University of New Orleans, studied at the American Academy in Rome to gain an understanding of the Old Masters. His debt to the tradition of illusionist painting is as evident as his interest in contemporary collage and assemblage.