Ronnie Landfield masterpieces

Edge of September
Edge of September

Colour was not given to us in order that we imitate Nature.  It was given to us so that we can express our emotions - Henri Matisse

Ronnie Landfield's lyrical abstraction

Ronnie Landfield (b. 1947), from the The Bronx in New York, is an American abstract painter, known for his abstract landscape paintings, and have become icons of the modernist Color Field movement*.

He cited these artists that were important influences on his work:
  • and the Chinese Landscape Painting Shan Shui (shan = mountain, shui = water).
Had more than 65 solo exhibitions and more than 200 group exhibitions.
His works are reflections of both Chinese landscape painting and the Color Field idiom.


* The color field painting movement was formed in the 1940s through independent attempts by Ad Reinhard, Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell...
Color Field painting, a kind of abstract painting during 1950s and 1960s, characterised by large areas of a more or less flat single colour

Favourite masterpieces

Across The Fall
After The Rain
Break of day
Cliff Entrance - 1978
Color Fields II - 1973
Edge of September
Going to Montana - 1989
In the Mist
In the Smoke
Journey to the east
New Beginning
Pale Companion - 1978
Rite of Spring - 1985
The Shepherd - 1987
Untitled - 1969
Cliff Entrance (1978), By the silence, Dusk to Dawn, Untitled (1969), The shepherd (1987)
Cliff Entrance (1978), By the silence, Dusk to Dawn
Untitled (1969), The shepherd (1987)

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