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Johnson Hagood
Johnson Hagood is a painter working in Charleston, South Carolina, in the luminist style. His oil and pastel paintings are influenced by the Hudson River School and primarily Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett, and Sanford Robinson Gifford. Hagood paints the rapidly disappearing barrier islands and marshes of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Some of his canvases are in an elongated horizontal format, a format also favored by Heade, and include sunrises or sunsets, also another fleeting element in his work. Sometimes the only human evidence in his paintings is the occassional light emitting from a far off land bank at dusk - a constant reminder of the eventual development of a vanishing landscape. Hagood is also intrigued by the nocturne work of Frederick Remington and Charles Rollo Peters, a California painter, and has studied Remington's palette, which he uses in his Nocturnes. Inspired by Alfred Hutty and other artists of the Charleston Renaissance, he has also been exploring the urban scene in Charleston, particularly the east side & upper west side. This is another part of the vanishing South as the area becomes more and more gentrified. His work is included in hundreds of private collections and in the collections of Bank of America, Bellsouth, City of Charleston, Carolina First Bank, Gibbes Museum of Art, Morris Museum of Art, Roper Hospital, Safety Kleen Corporation, & Wild Dunes Corporation. My Blog Tropical Light For images and descriptions of my own paintings. A work in progress! Sold works: |
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