Fred Easker’s landscape paintings offer exquisite views of otherwise common terrain. His epic panoramas are seductive and contemplative. The artist paints each landscape so that they wrap around the corners and edges of his tightly stretched canvases giving each work an added uniqueness and strong sense of energy.
"While I have been influenced by the 19th century American landscape tradition and by my mid 20th century Iowa predecessors, Grant Wood and Marvin Cone, I am informed as well by the meditative qualities of Mark Rothko, the energy-from-within character of many of Jackson Pollock's drip paintings, and the abstract visual stories told within a larger formal structure of the 1980's paintings of Joseph Raphael. I have an affinity as well for Minimalism and from my still-life days, the sublime subtleties of color and structure seen in the work of Morandi. " -Fred Easker
UPPER IOWA AFTERNOON, Oil on Canvas, 15 x 60" - sold
VIEW FROM FERRYVILLE, Oil on Canvas, 18 1/4 x 54" - sold
MORNING ISLANDS, Oil on Canvas, 10 x 40"
BLUE CREEK AFTERNOON, Oil on Canvas, 15 x 45"
SUMMER VIEW NEAR ROOT RIVER, Oil on Canvas, 15 x 60"
William Nichols
