William Paterson Ewen 1925 - 2002

Private Collector, New York

Carmen Lamana Gallery, Toronto

This work is in pristine condition. The edges are irregular, as can be expected with rag paper.
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Ewen was famous for combining painting and sculptural traditions in his art work.  His trademark products were large panels of plywood gouged with a router and then roughly worked over with paint to depict dramatic meteorlogic or cosmic events.

Ewen's lifelong fascination with science was to become the source material for his most important art. 

This fine work, Hail Storm, is half diagram and half  skyscape. Ewen has knitted together a physical sense of the air and the atmosphere with an analytic  lesson in weather conditions and scientific facts cleverly and emotionally illustrated.