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Article: Daisy Craddock at Fischbach.(American landscape painting)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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New York-based Daisy Craddock, a Tennessee native, is known for her paintings of majestic magnolias and other natural icons of the South, as well as of the broader American landscape. In her oils on canvas, the play between dark colors used to sketch out the somewhat abstract, underlying physical structure of dominant elements, and lighter yellows, ochers and finely tuned greens, give her pictures a somewhat melodramatic air. In her skyscapes and landscapes, among them spare shoreline vistas, Craddock uses many layers of paint to build up her luscious colors.
At Fischbach, Craddock surprised longtime viewers with more purely abstract, conceptual and thematically ...