Scott Christensen (Amer., b. 1962), "Big Sandy, Patterns of Fall", 1999, oil on canvas panel

sight: 20 x 24 in., frame: 28 x 32 in.

Provenance: Property from the lifelong collection of a prominent artist in San Antonio, Texas

Scott Christensen didn't begin painting until he was in college, but he credits his basic interest to seeing his wheel-chair bound grandfather painting. Christensen nearly had the same fate as he fractured a vertebra in a college football game, and switched his energy to art from a consuming passion for sports. His initial dedication to art came from standing on a stream bank in western Nebraska, where it was quiet and beautiful. His influences include his friend Daniel Gerhartz and Swedish painter Anders Zorn, whose paintings taught him to soften edges. Christensen has also been much influenced by Russian painters Isaac Levitan and Ilya Repin. He creates both plein-air and studio paintings from quickly done field sketches, and travels widely in the western United States, roaming the outdoors with a field box, a few tubes of paint and many sheets of canvas board.

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