Woody Gwyn (American/Texas, b. 1944), "Llegamos con Tres Heridas", oil on board mounted to panel, signed upper center, "Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM" label with artist and title on reverse of mount, 10 3/16 in. x 13 1/2 in., framed. Provenance: Collection of Wendy and the late George (1944-2013) Rodrigue. Note: New Mexico-based artist Woody Gwyn is well-known for his meditative landscapes and seascapes which reflect the artist’s exceptional ability to balance realism with abstraction. By often focusing on a horizontal format, Gwyn encourages viewers look at the world around them in new ways. As Lucy R. Lippard writes: “By compressing a landscape into a thin band, he concentrates its essence into a visual field we can comprehend, at the same time that it is about to escape us.” In “Llegamos con Tres Heridas (We Arrived with Three Wounds)” offered here, the artist’s emblematic landscape diverges into a composition featuring a figure and skull that remains evocative of earth and sky. The painting is from Gwyn’s series that combines imagery of figures, human and animal bones and aphorisms. The series can be beautifully described by a quote from Carlos Castaneda (included as the caption on one of the works): “The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.” Much like Gwyn’s landscapes, this work is charged with the physical and metaphysical reflections that permeate the artist’s canvases. George and Wendy Rodrigue developed a friendship with Gwyn during their regular travels through New Mexico and selected the two works on offer here for their personal collection. Ref.: “Artist Woody Gwyn.” Midland Reporter-Telegram. Jan. 17, 2006. www.mrt.com. Accessed Aug. 8, 2022. Rodrigue, Wendy. “Artist Friends: A Pilgrimage.” Musings of an Artist’s Wife. Oct. 17, 2010. www.legacyarttour.org. Accessed Aug. 8, 2022. “Woody Gwyn.” Modernism. www.modernisminc.com. Accessed Aug. 8, 2022.

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