Owings Gallery: Field Notes

Owings Gallery presents Field Notes, an exhibition of wildlife paintings, prints, sculptures, and watercolors on view this spring at Owings Gallery on Palace.

The artists in this exhibition share a close relationship with the landscapes and animals they depicted. Carl Rungius spent decades hunting and painting in the Canadian Rockies and Alaska before becoming widely regarded as one of North America’s most important wildlife painters. Herbert Dunton, a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists, knew the open country of the early West through lived experience rather than distant observation. Dave Wade spent more than forty years in the high country of Wyoming and the canyonlands near Zion observing, photographing, and sketching the subjects that later appeared in his paintings. Wade passed away in 2019, and the two large canvases included here are among the last significant originals still available.

The exhibition also includes works by Gustave Baumann, Bror Nordfeldt, Arthur Dove, William Marple, Howard Post, Illa MacAfee, Thomas Quinn, and Charles Prutzer. Across generations and artistic traditions, these artists shared a commitment to careful observation of the natural world.