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John Cole: The Enduring Northwest Landscape
John Cole The Enduring Northwest Landscape Author:Deloris Ament Tarzan, John Cole John Cole is a painter whose canvass, building on the compositional and coloristic freedom of the 20th-century masters, evoke the natural world of the Northwest in its rugged variety. This catalogue of a retrospective exhibition at the Whatcom Museum of History and Art samples thirty years of his painting and graphic work; it includes images of... more » such diverse natural features as towering Alaskan glaciers and rushing Oregon waterfalls. An avid outdoorsman, Cole's painting excursions usually include hiking, camping, and fishing as well as painting and drawing. Decades of these trips into the wilderness have given him an intimate familiarity with the landscape. This deep understanding of nature is clearly communicated in his paintings. Cole's bold color combinations and abstracted shapes convey the essence of the region's beauty. As shown in the abundant color plates and profiled in the essay by Deloris Tarzan Ament, Cole delves deeply into the enduring Northwest landscape.« less