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Tom Uttech
Wisconsin native Tom Uttech is one of the Midwest’s most acclaimed landscape painters, known for creating richly imagined scenes inspired by his travels throughout the Boundary Waters of Minnesota and the wilderness regions of Ontario and Manitoba. Working from his converted barn-studio outside Milwaukee, Uttech draws upon decades of firsthand experience in these remote landscapes, transforming them into poetic visions that blend observation, memory, and imagination.
Widely recognized for his contributions to contemporary American landscape painting, Uttech’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, Tucson Museum of Art, Museum of Wisconsin Art, and numerous collections throughout the United States.
The Tory Folliard Gallery has represented Tom Uttech since his first exhibition in 1990.
Oil Paintings
MAMAKADENDAGWAD (1112)
Oil on Masonite
9 ¼ x 12” (Image)
15 ¾ x 18 ¾” (Framed)
$18,000.00
“My paintings are based on my experiences walking and paddling through the northern woods and the Boundary Waters. I find myself drawn toward the north country for inspiration because that’s where I grew up. It’s in my blood. It is my home”
-Tom Uttech
NIN BANITAWA (#1093)
Oil on Panel,
9 x 26 ½” (Frame)
$18,000.00
“The characteristics of the place that I have identified as ‘home’ are important ingredients that create the sense of the north woods. Glacial evidence from mounds of exposed bedrock. The erratic house-sized rocks lying around the woods. The evergreen trees, the moss that grows on the ground, the magic of hearing wolves howling at night, the light, the quality of reflections in the water. It all wraps up into a single thing.”
-Tom Uttech
BISIW AWAN (#789)
Oil on Linen
25 ½ x 25 ½” (Image)
33 ½ x 33” (Framed)
$45,000.00
MADABIMIGAD (863)
Oil on Linen,
8 ¾ x 9 ½” (Image)
14 x 14 ¾” (Framed)
$16,000.00
“The paintings are never about any specific place or time. They are instead, fictional recreation, allegorical and metaphorical representation of the northern woods.”
-Tom Uttech
NIN GIBAGAWAIGE (973)
Oil on Linen,
23 x 25” (Image)
31 x 33” (Framed)
$45,000.00
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Etchings and Lithography
TICHI BWA WABANG, Ed. Of 35
Lithograph
20 x 22” (Image)
32 x 33” (Framed)
$4,000.00
“My work evokes a world untouched by human influence—one of winding waterways, rocky shorelines, dense forests, and abundant wildlife.”
-Tom Uttech
WAABANONG Ed. Of 20
Etching
8 x 7 ½” (Image)
14 ½ x 13 ¾” (Framed)
$750.00
GIIWEDIN Ed. Of 20
Etching
8 x 7 ½” (Image)
14 ½ x 14 ½” (Framed)
$750.00
KASAKOGWOG, Ed. Of 10
Lithograph,
31 x 35” (Image)
37 x 42” (Framed)
$3,500.00
“The act of painting, printing, and photographing is a means to an end, a way to transport a viewer into a state of mind. I’m interested in using art to reflect on, share, and support the things I love in life.”
-Tom Uttech
MAKWA MOSS, Ed. Of 25
Etching
9 x 7” (Image)
15 x 13” (Framed)
$750.00
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Watercolors
NIN BAMIA #1104
Watercolor on Paper
9 x 12” (Image)
15 x 18” (Framed)
$7,500.00
“Above all else, I want my paintings to be interesting. Interest leads to curiosity and that to knowledge. Since these pictures are about nature and our role in it, the knowledge gained might grow into love of nature, and thus into concern for its well-being. This concern could lead to action to protect nature and, therefore, ourselves.”
-Tom Uttech
INAMON (1148)
Watercolor on paper
7 ½ x 5 ½” (Image)
15 ¾ x 13 ¼” (Framed)
$6,000.00
ZAAGIDAWAA (1146)
Watercolor on paper
12 x 9” (Image)
19 ¼ x 15 ¾” (Framed)
$7,500.00
MANITOU FEAST III (189)
Watercolor on paper
10 x 10” (Image)
17 x 17” (Framed)
$7,500.00
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