Neil Jenney

Collection of the artist
Donated by the artist

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of very light wear and handling along the lateral sides of the artist's frame. There are no signs of restoration under ultraviolet light inspection. Framed in artist's frame.
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North American Vegetae (2007) is a work that continues Jenney’s painterly investigations of the native landscape. Drawing on the techniques of the American Luminists, Hudson Valley School, and regionalists such as Grant Wood, he has made successive iterations of the theme in paintings of dramatic horizontal proportions, surrounded by heavy black frames the artist considers part of the works themselves. Here the frame is almost coffin-like in its bearing, encasing the long, narrow slit of a view onto a scene of dense forest growth. Thick vines and green foliage are visible against the dark folds of the base of a massive tree trunk in what is perhaps a subtropical Southern forest. Intuitive line and atmospheric color, hallmarks of his realist style, lend the work a reverential beauty and moral weight.