Lockwood "Woody" Dennis (American, 1937-2012). "Silver Terrace" oil on canvas, 2001. Signed in lower right with another signature, date, and inventory number on verso. A wonderful painting by Lockwood Dennis capturing the picturesque landscape of San Francisco's Silver Terrace neighborhood, replete with colorful city buildings scattered between verdant, rolling hills. The linear structure of a beam bridge horizontally divides the background, all beneath the brilliant violet, azure, and coral pink hues of a California sunset. Lockwood seemed to enjoy capturing views where the natural and the built environments met. The joining of these disparate themes seems to parallel the painter's own style, known for its 'painterly' yet simultaneously graphic quality and allowing Lockwood to deliver the scenes through his modernist aesthetic with an emphasis on contrasting planes, geometry, and vibrant brushstrokes. Size: 14" W x 11" H (35.6 cm x 27.9 cm)

Lockwood "Woody" Dennis was driven to paint throughout his 45 year career. Painting was the most personal and rewarding artistic endeavor for Dennis. Each canvas reveals new aspects about him as a person - his approaches to life, the environment, and art. During the early years, Dennis was most influenced by the works of Post-Impressionist pioneers of early Modernism such as Cezanne and Matisse. In time, Dennis developed a graphic style informed by the style and imagery he created for his woodblock prints.

Lockwood Dennis was quite eloquent and insightful when asked about his art. The following is an excerpt from the "On Impetus" section of his "Philosophical Musings on Painting": "The impetus to paint is always an experience - a specific place, weather, ordinary things remembered. A celebration of just being here, experiencing the world. The experience itself is somehow lost in the process, and, anyway, its not intended that it should be conveyed. The result is a picture animated by that experience. Dennis continues, "A painting starts with an exuberance. It's good to be alive. The work is a wonderful place. The feeling seems to cover everything, but it relates especially to past experiences, beginning further back than I can remember. It becomes specific in associations with past experiences: Portland, Eastern Washington, Africa; but not with an exact description. The memory of a precise place and time - a moment of past reality is too terrible to bear, there is such a sense of loss, of things gone forever. So it is a present experience, based on the past. And perhaps the cartoon character adds the levity to remove it from the past, or 'animate' it in the present."



Provenance: Lockwood Dennis Art Estate, Boulder, Colorado, USA

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Signed in lower right with another signature, date, and inventory number on verso. Small mark on verso of canvas that does not impact the painted imagery. Otherwise, in excellent overall condition.