Paradise Within
Date1998
Artist
Ronnie Landfield
(American painter, born 1947)
MediumAcrylic on paper
Dimensions22 1/4 x 30 in. (56.5 x 76.2 cm)
Credit LineTHE DOROTHY AND HERBERT VOGEL COLLECTION: FIFTY WORKS FOR FIFTY STATES, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2008
Object number2008-37
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextRonnie Landfield’s early influences include many of the Abstract Expressionist painters—Jackson Pollock, Hans Hoffman, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, and Franz Kline. He recalls being inspired in 1961 having read an article about the group in Life magazine. Indebted to this tradition, Landfield uses the emotive quality of line and color to express feelings. He—along with Brice Marden, Larry Poons, and others—were part of the mid 1960s movement known as Lyrical Abstraction.
