Signed Kathryn Stedham Painting - "Cloud Tree" (2021)

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Nov 10, 2022

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• Lot Description
  Kathryn Stedham (American, Contemporary). "Cloud Tree" oil on canvas, 2021. Signed on lower right as well as on verso with title and date. A breathtaking painting by American artist Kathryn Stedham. Stedham's composition features a voluminous cluster of billowing clouds that appear to be supported by a lone curvaceous tree trunk, hence the title "Cloud Tree". Stedham blends figurative interpretation with abstraction as well as a brilliant color palette, delineating the striking clouds of violet, fuchsia, white, lavender, cyan, and azure hues against a dramatic sky rendered in myriad shades of blue - a virtual kaleidoscope of cobalt, royal, and azure hues. All is delineated with Stedham's gestural Alla Prima painting technique - a method where paint is applied wet on wet rather than letting the earlier layers dry, enabling the artist to capture dazzling light and color. A luminous example of Kathryn Stedham's impressive artistry set in an attractive custom frame. Size (painting): 30" L x 24" W (76.2 cm x 61 cm) Size (frame): 33.25" L x 27.25" W (84.5 cm x 69.2 cm)
  
  Creating cloud trees is a Japanese practice of shaping trees to resemble an array of clouds. As opposed to bonsai trees, cloud trees are not miniature and are planted in soil rather than pots. On the other hand, similar to bonsai designers, cloud tree designers meticulously prune leaves to create cloud-like shapes, leaving the trunk and branches exposed.
  
  This painting was acquired from Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The following is Blue Rain's informative artist biography for Kathryn Stedham: "Moving to the West in 2005 was a life-changing event that brought Kathryn Stedham face-to-face with a true calling: painting the infinite spaces of the American Southwest. Little did she realize at the time, that this would combine two personal rudiments: painting and contemplation. Forever fascinated with stories about the West and Westward Expansion she explains, 'I would happily board a time machine, if there were such a thing, to experience first-hand this important period in American history and our connection to the land.'
  
  Feeling an urgency to portray this space, rooting out the mystic snippets of a quickly vanishing landscape, Stedham seeks to capture its raw elegance in the rapidly changing light, vast distances, rugged escarpments, colorful mesas and hidden arroyos—to excavate the bones of existence in this terrain where the West is still wild and free and to be an explorer of this ineffable mystery.
  
  Trained as an Academic Realist, Stedham began her career as a figurative painter. But her interest evolved, through a period of pure abstraction, into the gestural Alla Prima painting style for which she is known today. This approach combines representational landscape forms with an expressionistic modernist sensibility.
  
  Stedham has exhibited as an artist for over 35 years and her paintings have been featured in public and private collections throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada. She is a long-time student in the Sanbo lineage of Zen Buddhism. In addition to her studio practice, Stedham travels internationally, rides horses and teaches oil painting workshops. Stedham currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico."
  
  Provenance: private Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA collection; ex-Hugh K. Terrell estate, representative Priscilla T. Bisher, purchased from Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, July 28, 2021
  
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  Condition

  Signed by the artist on lower right as well as on the verso along with the title and date. There is a Blue Rain Gallery tag on the verso that lists this painting for $5800. Painting is excellent overall and is mounted in a custom frame which is also excellent save minor scuffs. Fit with suspension wire and ready to display.
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