Larry Horowitz "East and West" (2015)

LARRY HOROWITZ EAST AND WEST

EAST COAST

FRONT COVER :

Softening Dusk

WEST COAST

2015

oil on canvas

Grand Sky (detail)

30 x 40 in.

2015 – see page 24 /

OPPOSITE :

WEST COAST

Foggy Coast (detail)

2015 – see page 11

LARRY HOROWITZ EAST AND WEST Twenty Years of Landscapes with Franklin Bowles Galleries

S an Francis co / New York

L A R R Y

H O R O W I T Z

Twenty Years of Landscapes with Franklin Bowles Galleries Franklin Bowles Galleries is celebrating our 20th year representing the quintessential American poet of the landscape, Larry Horowitz. In our anniversary exhibition, EAST AND WEST, we find romanticism, emotional travelogue, and maps of personal experience voiced in Larry’s art. A wonderful metaphor for the artist’s affinity with both American coasts can be seen in his recent paintings of the Point Montara lighthouse (see pages 16– 17). Originally constructed in 1881 in Wellfleet Massachusetts, the lighthouse now graces the California coast near Half Moon Bay. A series of paintings in this exhibition depicts the lighthouse at different times of day. The images have a plein-air immediacy similar to that of Monet’s haystacks, while the joy which imbues the canvases is clearly the artist’s own response to his discovery of the lighthouse’s migration.

Larry’s painting in plein-air connects him to the Provincetown and Hudson River Schools of American painting. However, his intense push-and-pull technique derives from Hans Hoffman whose influence was imparted through his teachers Wolf Kahn and Paul Resika who both studied with Hoffman. Kahn and Resika, of course, link Larry back to the Abstract Expressionist generation of painters in New York in the 1950s.

Within the California School of Western painting, William Wendt, in particular, has resonated deeply with Horowitz. In a recent painting, For Ed (opposite), a dove gray path with periwinkle shadows leads upwards to a lone red barn over a field of blazing yellow blooms. Finally, the eye comes to a stop in the sky, a long line of infinite space. The line, which shades from electric blue to deepest violet, seems to push down and hold the viewer in a state of transcendence. In Wassily Kandinsky’s The Spiritual in Art, specific colors were associated with different emotional frequencies. Larry Horowitz’ vivid color palettes express heightened emotional levels of engagement with particular places, unique moments observed by the artist.

Describing himself as a true romantic – a painter on a spiritual quest, Horowitz’s physical journey for this project included travel by car on both coasts. From the mountain landscapes of Vermont to the Northern California wine-growing valleys, his travels are documented in pastel, watercolor and oil and peppered with stories of the places and the people he encountered along his way. There is a transcendental quality in Larry’s painting that reflects his inner journey.

Island at Sunset (page 28), begins with hot orange underpainting; the pale peach glow of the sunset on a Maine lake throws the reflections of the trees onto the water. Behind this panorama the dark blue-violet mountains of the Appalachian range anchors the weightlessness of this shimmering moment.

Horowitz follows a long line of painters in his relationship to the American landscape. The early 20th-century artists Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keefe and Charles Burchfield all espoused reverence for nature. Burchfield spoke of seeing the energy emanating from the landscapes he painted. For O’Keefe, the great seer of Western art, the landscape became an inner mirror, a reflector of the soul. In Grand Sky (cover image and page 22), which shows the subtle gradations of afternoon light reflected in a sky of twenty shades of blue, one has the impression of a world wrapped in color and defined by awe of the natural world in all its glory. This sentiment would have been a familiar one to both Burchfield and O’Keefe. Perhaps in its minimalism this painting reveals an even deeper connection to these iconic American painters.

What Larry Horowitz brings to his art on both coasts, in both the East and West, is his own rhythm, his own sense of self. The artist has discovered within himself a synchronicity with nature that flows from his inner eye. In the paintings of Larry Horowitz, we find ourselves in nature’s heart, everywhere it beats… in each vivid color, each energetic line and each lush heavy stroke of the knife.

L E S L I E L U N D , Curator, Franklin Bowles Galleries OPPOSITE :

EAST COAST

For Ed

2015

oil on canvas

44 x 59 in.

3

EAST COAST

Port Jeff, II

2014

oil on canvas

26 x 30 in.

EAST COAST

4

Fall Stream, I

2014

oil on canvas

32 x 13 in.

EAST COAST

Lush Spring

2015

oil on canvas

51 x 76 in.

5

EAST COAST Sparkling Winter Morning 2015 oil on canvas 51 x 51 in.

EAST COAST

Winter Afternoon

2014

oil on canvas

28 x 38 in.

7

EAST COAST Spring Field 2015 oil on canvas 54 x 59 in.

8

WEST COAST

Foggy Coast

2015

oil on canvas

28 x 44 in.

9

WEST COAST Flower Fields, Chandon Vineyard 2015 watercolor 16 x 25 in.

WEST COAST

10

Wildflowers, Chandon

2015

oil on canvas

20 x 56 in.

Napa Valley, California

WEST COAST Cabernet Rows Chandon oil on canvas 15 x 15 in.

2015

WEST COAST Fauve Spring Chandon 2015 oil on canvas 24 x 33 in.

WEST COAST Newton Sunset oil on canvas 38 x 14 in.

2015

11

WEST COAST

Sunset from the Newton Winery

2015

oil on canvas

36 x 52 in.

OPPOSITE :

12

WEST COAST

Napa Mauve

2015

oil on canvas

59 x 78 in.

EAST COAST

14

Plein Aire Fall Forest

2015

oil on canvas

24 x 36 in.

EAST COAST

Fall on Crystal Brook

2014

oil on canvas

36 x 48 in.

15

Point Montara Lighthouse Montara, California

Nearly 90 vessels had met their demise on the jagged rocks off Montara by the mid-1800s, but it wasn’t until two highprofile incidents in 1868 and 1872 that Congress finally took action; in 1875 they established the Point Montara Lighthouse as a fog signal station with a kerosene lantern.

WEST COAST Lighthouse, Pt. Montara oil on canvas 25 x 13 in.

16

2015

In 2008 historians discovered that the current Point Montara Lighthouse was much older than previously thought and was in fact the same cast iron tower that had first been erected in 1881 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts (image at bottom right) as the Mayo Beach Lighthouse. It stood there until it was decommissioned in 1922. From Cape Cod, the lighthouse made a 3,000-mile journey to Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay, where it waited in a depot until finally being installed at Point Montara in 1928. It is currently the only known lighthouse to have stood watch on two oceans.

WEST COAST

EAST COAST

Dusk, Point Montara

2015

Nor'easter at Mayo Beach

oil on canvas

2015

15 x 58 in.

oil on canvas

13 x 50 in.

17

WEST COAST

The Double Ender

2015

oil on canvas

10 x 25 in.

WEST COAST Point Montara, II 2015 oil on canvas 30 x 38 in.

18

WEST COAST

Pt. Montara, Breeze from the North

2015 oil on canvas

24 x 46 in.

19

EAST COAST

20

Napa Valley Spring

2015

oil on canvas

38 x 60 in.

EAST COAST

Fall Stream, II

2015

oil on canvas

51 x 80 in.

21

22

EAST COAST

Truro Shadows

2015

oil on canvas

17 x 17 in.

OPPOSITE :

EAST COAST Grand Sky 2015 oil on canvas 51 x 59 in.

EAST COAST Fall Creek 2014 oil on canvas 36 x 24 in.

WEST COAST

Blankiet Winery

2015

oil on canvas

23 x 30 in.

OPPOSITE :

WEST COAST Vertical Vista 2015 oil on canvas 31 x 13 in.

24

WEST COAST Eucalyptus on the Oakville Cross 2015 oil on canvas 59 x 76 in.

25

EAST COAST

EAST COAST Violet Winter Sky

2015

Indian Neck Path

oil on canvas

50 x 13 in.

2015

oil on canvas

26 x 30 in.

Jay Sunset

2014

OPPOSITE : EAST COAST oil on canvas 64 x 77 in.

EAST COAST

28

Island at Sunset

2015

oil on canvas

26 x 38 in.

EAST COAST

Jay Panorama

2014

EAST COAST

Country Lane Shadows

watercolor

2015

8 x 46 in.

oil on canvas

18 x 54 in.

29

Stewart Ranch Napa Valley, California Visitors approaching Napa Valley from the south may be surprised to see not grapes, but beautiful black and white Galloway cattle dotting the green hillside at Stewart Ranch.Today the ranch is owned and managed by Paul and Ailene Pritchett Tarap. Ailene is the great-granddaughter of Charles Stewart who immigrated from Scotland; Paul's family settled in the area in the 1890s. Both families have been in the Napa Valley cattle business since the early 1900's.

In 1987 Ailene met and fell in love with the Galloway breed.

Today their grass-fed animals are raised from birth in Napa Valley and supply some of the finest restaurants and specialty food shops in the region

WEST COAST Belted Galloways 2015 oil on canvas 44 x 14 in.

WEST COAST

1916 Barn at Stewart Ranch

2015

oil on canvas

19 x 26 in.

WEST COAST

Antique Barn at Stewart Ranch

2015

oil on canvas

48 x 76 in.

31

EAST COAST

Red Sunset

2015

oil on canvas

18 x 24 in.

EAST COAST

OPPOSITE :

EAST COAST

Mauve Forest

2014

oil on canvas

Ochre Mood

2015

oil on canvas

25 x 32 in.

35 x 45 in.

33

EAST COAST Winding Path

EAST COAST Fall at the Ferguson’s 2014 oil on canvas 20 x 24 in.

2015 oil on canvas 39 x 14.5 in.

EAST COAST Rocky Coast, Rhode Island 2015 oil on canvas 20 x 24 in.

34

EAST COAST

Secluded Mountain Lake

2014

oil on canvas

36 x 52 in.

35

EAST COAST

36

Cloud Reflections Dusk

2015

oil on canvas

36 x 60 in.

Mussel Rock The Pacific Oean, California

WEST COAST

Carriage Tunnel, Mussel Beach

WEST COAST

Mussel Beach, I I

2015

watercolor

18 x 24 in.

Opposite Mussel Rock in Pacifica, is a low cliff promontory pierced by a tunnel about 10’ wide, 10’ high and 90’ long. Known as Tobin’s Folly, the tunnel was carved through the solid Franciscan rock for Hibernia Bank cofounder Richard Tobin in 1874. He wanted to be able to ride his buggy back and forth between his family’s city home and their house in Rockaway Beach, Pacifica, south of San Francisco.

The tunnel was a disaster from the beginning.

First, Pacific storms deposited sand in the tunnel cavity and eroded sand from the approach to the tunnel. Then in 1906, the San Francisco earthquake broke off much of the surrounding rock and threw it into the ocean, leaving the tunnel in its present state – several feet higher than the surrounding land, making it a “tunnel to nowhere.”

2015

watercolor

15 x 25 in.

37

38

OPPOSITE :

WEST COAST Napa River 2015 oil on canvas 36 x 48 in.

WEST COAST The Sutro Baths 2014 oil on canvas 36 x 48 in.

Index 1916 Barn at Stewart Ranch Antique Barn at Stewart Ranch Belted Galloways Blankiet Winery Cabernet Rows Chandon Carriage Tunnel, Mussel Beach Cloud Reflections Dusk Country Lane Shadows The Double Ender Dusk, Point Montara Eucalyptus on the Oakville Cross Fall at the Ferguson’s Fall Creek Fall on Crystal Brook Fall Stream, I Fall Stream, II Fauve Spring Chandon Flower Fields, Chandon Vineyard Foggy Coast For Ed Grand Sky Horse and Sky Indian Neck Path Island at Sunset Jay Panorama Jay Sunset Lighthouse, Pt. Montara Lush Spring

30 31 30 24 11 37 36 28-29 18 16-17 25 34 23 15 4 21 11 10 9 2 22 40 26 28 28-29 27 16 5

project manager

Stacey Bellis

catalog design

LEFT:

Horse and Sky

WEST COAST

OPPOSITE :

WEST COAST

BACK COVER :

2015

Mauve Forest Mussel Beach, II Napa Mauve Napa River Napa Valley Spring Newton Sunset Nor'easter at Mayo Beach Ochre Mood Plein Aire Fall Forest Point Montara Lighthouse Point Montara, II Port Jeff, II Pt. Montara, Breeze from the North Red Sunset Rocky Coast, Rhode Island Secluded Mountain Lake Softening Dusk Sparkling Winter Morning Spring Field The Sutro Baths Sunset from the Newton Winery Truro Shadows Vertical Vista Violet Winter Sky Wildflowers, Chandon Winding Path Winter Afternoon Yount Mill Road

oil on canvas

Point Montara Lighthouse

WEST COAST

Yount Mill Road

D. Lee Myers

2015

2015

photography

52 x 15 in. oil on canvas

oil on canvas

36 x 50 in.

35 x 23 in.

32 37 13 38 20 11 16-17 33 14 Inside back cover 18 4 19 33 34 35 Inside front cover 6 8 39 12 23 24 26 10 34 7 Back cover

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