Stephen Hannock is considered one of the top American landscape painters working today. Represented in major international collections and reflecting a Romantic tradition that dates back to the Hudson River School, his majestic works are renowned for their extraordinarily luminous quality. Hannock renders pure iridescent reflections of light through his signature technique of polishing the oil on the canvas with sandpaper. The hushed reverie of earth and sky captured in these hauntingly evocative paintings echoes the idyllic grandeur of such nineteenth-century masters as J.M.W. Turner, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and Louis Rémy Mignot, among others. The Academy Award he shared for his landscapes in the film What Dreams May Come has enabled Hannock - a craftsman in an art all too rare - to reach an even wider audience. Reawakening one of the most significant styles of American painting, Stephen Hannock illuminates the wonder of the American landscape in this beautiful compendium. -- from dust jacket.
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