366 Lower Yellowstone Falls

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Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 9,000.00 USD
Estimated at 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD
Lower Yellowstone Falls
Artist: Philbeck, PhilDate of Birth: b. 1968
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 x 48 inches
Signed: Signed lower left
Verso: Titled and dated 2015 verso

Born in Washington, D.C, landscape painter Phillip Philbeck has long made his home in rural Rutherford County, North Carolina. His subjects, mountains, rolling piedmont, and coastal views, appeal greatly to his artistic sensibility, as seen in the magnificent vistas, wide sandy shores, wonderful spring and fall foliage he paints. He only needs to venture outside of his home and studio to find inspiration for his next landscape.
Philbeck’s canvases revel in a profusion of details, and he is especially known for the skies in his images. “The sky sets the basic tone for my landscapes,” he says. Textures, shapes, and contrasts derived from many of nature’s wonders are rendered in vibrant colors and in interesting juxtapositions. Dramatic light and atmosphere bathe his scenes. Although Philbeck very much admires realism, he has a tendency toward romantic, emotional images such in the manner of the Hudson River School.
Philbeck’s father, who also painted, encouraged his son and nurtured the budding artist’s talents. Although basically self-taught, young Philbeck attended college where he was mentored by instructors who saw a passion and talent that they encouraged the artist to pursue.
Philbeck has a natural attraction to familiar places and things. He recalls fondly exploring the wooded landscapes of neighboring hills and mountains of his childhood, and he commemorates many of these moments in his works. The artist’s greatest enjoyment comes from knowing that viewers can relate to his paintings or be taken back to a time when nature was a new, awe-inspiring adventure.
When he is not painting, Philbeck enjoys constructing his own stretchers and frames and making music with his guitar.