Triangle Arch Canyonlands
2000. Original painting. [25inX18.5in]. Oil on canvas. Oil painting by Southwestern Painter John De Puy. This large painting features large, bold color fields in shades of red, purple and blue. Signed by the artist on the reverse of the painting. Very good. Item #61835
Inspired from a young age by expressionist painters such as Van Gogh and Emil Nolde, De Puy uses traditional European techniques to explore the soul of the landscape of the southwest. In the words of Stan Steiner, De Puy's "work is unique and strongly individualistic, though, at once indigenous to this land. For he has probed, with his cutting line, beneath the deserts and mountains, into the bare bone of the rock of this land and has dared to seek the secrets of its womb." De Puy's works speak of a time sense other than our western European linear time, and instead speak of something deeper, more spiritual. De Puy was one of the late author Edward Abbey's oldest and closest friends. They first met in New Mexico in the 1940's and used to burn down billboards together in their desert beautification attempts. Abbey immortalized De Puy in an essay he wrote about De Puy entitled "My friend Debris."
Price: $2,000.00