Abstract Landscapes

Neuman’s exploration of the abstract landscape spans nearly half a century. During this time, he turned his artistic gaze (and his brush) towards America’s Mountain West, the spires of the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, Maine’s storm-battered coast, and more elusive locales.

His extraordinary stylistic range is most evident in these works. The orderly, almost modular composition of Elko Morning (1967-71) finds its foil in the frenetic brushwork in Sagrada Familia (1981), and the painterly brushwork in Winter Storm Schoodic (2001)  agitates the surface of an otherwise restrained composition. Elsewhere, the triangular mountains in Somes Sound (1968) and Somber Landscape (1967) offer a distanced view of the primary motif in Neuman’s Mirage series, where they consume the entire canvas.