Artist: Ed Mell
Title: Guardo Expanse
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30 x 60 inches
Signed: Signed lower right
Verso: Signed, titled and dated 2004 verso; Signed Ed Mell frame
Framed/Base: 35 x 65 inches
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Overall Dimensions
Height: 35.00
Width: 65.00
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Provenance:
Private collection, Arizona
“Within this country are mesas, buttes, spires, pinnacles, alcoves, arches, plateaus and oxbows, not to mention hoodoos, goblins, fins, needles and joints,” writes Donald Hagerty in Beyond the Visible Terrain: The Art of Ed Mell. “The land is a diverse, immense, magical cacophony of topography joined together by colored sandstone. As is the case for all landscape painting, the views Mell chooses for inclusion in his paintings are fragments, for he knows landscapes extend beyond the frame of the canvas. However, through his perception of imagined landscapes rather than actual ones, and through his skill, Mell is able to suggest limitless space in his work by the use of imaginative designs and a selective eye. His landscapes, with their nearly stripped-to-the bone design, make little attempt to detract the eye with realistic detail.”