LOUISA MCELWAIN
Distant Trumpeter
January 31 - March 22, 2025
LOUISA MCELWAIN |Distant Trumpeter
1953 - 2013
January 31 - March 22, 2025
Louisa McElwain’s paintings tell her story in vivid swaths of color and light that dance unyielding across the canvas. Not merely a catalogue of her career and life, they chronicle the artist’s journey into the heart of the Southwestern landscape. They recount her transcendent experience with subject and medium, even as they become a narrative about energy, its genesis, and eventual manifestation on canvas.
An innate desire to channel nature’s magnificence lay at the center of McElwain’s work. Through thick, heady strokes of luminous pigments, she managed to build a connection among physical, spiritual, and external forces in two dimensions. To achieve this, she harnessed the paint’s ability to capture and suspend energy—a gift made visible in the rich hues, intricate light play, and variety of textures that fill every piece.
Covers: Louisa McElwain,Ghost Ranch, Shining Stone (detail), 2001, oil on canvas, 54” x 62” (full image on page 7)
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Louisa McElwain, Fanfare, 2001, oil on canvas, 54” x 62”.
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Louisa McElwain, Ghost Ranch, Shining Stone, 2001, oil on canvas, 54” x 62”.
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Louisa McElwain, A Red Canyon, 1993, oil on canvas, 36”x 48”.
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Louisa McElwain, In the Gorge, 2000, oil on canvas, 44” x 72”.
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Louisa McElwain, Pasture Spring, Rocks, Grass, 2001, oil on canvas, 46” x 64”.
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Louisa McElwain, High Desert Meadow, 1991, oil on canvas, 34” x 46”.
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Louisa McElwain, Palo Quemado, 1993, oil on canvas, 40” x 50”.
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Louisa McElwain, Deep Arroyo North of Black Mesa, oil on canvas, 34“ x 46”.
Louisa McElwain, Bosque, 1995, oil on canvas, 24” x 36”.
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Louisa McElwain, Boletes, 2003, oil on canvas, 8“ x 16”.
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Louisa McElwain, High Desert, Winter Afternoon, 1992, oil on canvas, 26” x 26”.
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Louisa McElwain, Riverbend, 2011, oil on canvas, 18”x 54”.
Louisa McElwain, One Curious Cow, 2006, oil on canvas, 12” x 24”.
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Louisa McElwain, The Smiling of the River, 2006, oil on canvas, 24”x 20”.
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Louisa McElwain, Sam’s Tractor Repair, 2008, oil on canvas, 24“ x 36”.
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Louisa McElwain, Big Red, Blue and Yellow, 2008, oil on canvas, 24”x 36”.
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Louisa McElwain, Untitled (Beach), oil on canvas, 6” x 8”.
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