Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings 1972-2008 July 27, 2010

This exhibition is the first major survey of paintings by the British-born, Yale-educated painter Rackstraw Downes (b. 1939), who divides his time between New York and Texas and has been painting exterior and interior panoramic scenes of the American landscape and urbanscape for over thirty-five years. The exhibition consists of approximately 32 works, many of them multiple-part paintings, created between 1972 and 2008. It begins with two of Downes's earliest plein air paintings.