Keith jacobshagen biography
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ABOUT KEITH JACOSBHAGEN
KEITHÂ JACOBSHAGEN (b. 1941, Wichita, Kansas)
I’m a Midwesterner who has stayed put to make sense of where I live.
Keith jacobshagen biography
My interest in the land is crystallized in my paintings about it.
By combining intimate reflections with a deep understanding and respect for nature, Keith Jacobshagen celebrates landscape in a manner reminiscent of the early Dutch masters.
Through their trademark low horizons and wide, dominant skies, Jacobshagen’s paintings elicit a variety of emotions inspired by the Midwestern countryside.
At the site, Jacobshagen takes notes that include exact time and location as well as other intangibles such as wind levels and smells.
In this manner, his small works are akin to diary entries or the comprehensive landscape descriptions of a Willa Cather novel. Though Jacobshagen moves into the studio as his paintings increase in size, each work maintains the same freshness of life as those painted in the field.
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