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Post by whollygoats on Aug 23, 2013 4:41:32 GMT
Paul A. LanquistI collect his work on teeshirts, when I find them. They are relatively rare.
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Post by Mari on Aug 23, 2013 6:03:23 GMT
It looks like those drawing on old cookie or cereal boxes.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 23, 2013 7:22:01 GMT
I like them. The pics. Though did he include the huge writing or is that people using his paintings as advertising for Oregon etc?
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Post by JoeP on Aug 23, 2013 10:00:19 GMT
I like them too!
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Post by jayme on Aug 23, 2013 11:17:29 GMT
So do I!
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 23, 2013 13:27:20 GMT
Yeah, they are basically 'used' on various tourist trinkets. Coffee cups, teeshirts, posters. I have a small chalkboard with Multnomah Falls, which hangs in the kitchen. The writing is usually part of each piece. He has done scenes beyond his usual stomping grounds of the Pacific Northwest; he has a series of the more well known National Parks.
I think of the style as a recapitulation of the travel posters of the 1930s.
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Post by Kye on Aug 23, 2013 14:05:51 GMT
They look Group-of-Seven-y.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 23, 2013 15:43:13 GMT
I really like Group-of-Seven stuff; I saw a retrospective at some museum out in the wilderness outside of Toronto and enjoyed it. I see what you mean, but PAL does not even try for the terra nullis look. I sense a strong presence of Arts & Crafts sensibilities, too. He has human interest in many forays into human subjects as well, like the Washington State ferry plying the island passages in Puget Sound, or the Crown Point observation amidst the Columbia Gorge panorama. So, if you took Group-of-Seven's presentations of wilderness and melded them with Soviet heroic idealism propaganda (witness the Washington State logger)...then PALs would be close.
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Post by Kye on Aug 23, 2013 15:46:50 GMT
His stuff is very nice! I notice he has some things having to do with Canada also.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 23, 2013 20:15:27 GMT
Yeah, well...He's a Pacific Northwesterner and we all want to take British Columbia with us when we secede and form Cascadia. It just wouldn't be Cascadia without Victoria, Vancouver, Kamloops, Pentiction and Kelowna, Revelstoke, Prince George, Nelson and Cranbrook with us. Besides, for classic scenes of natural beauty, Canuckistan is replete with such.
You'll note that he uses bull moose for several settings. Good taste, no?
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