In the Audubon Tradition Exhibition

About Jeff Gandert

 Artist Jeff Gandert was born with a passion for wildlife and the natural world and specializes in wildlife and landscape painting.

 Artists typically have a passion for one or two types of subject matter and /or style such as American Impressionist, Willard Metcalf  with his stunning New England scenes, and artist John Singer Sargent, the premier portrait painter who later in life devoted so much passion to landscape painting.

 “I think it’s a very natural passage for an artist to specialize like this. It certainly is for me. I’ve always been excited by both wildlife and landscape. It could be a woodchuck dosing in the sun or maybe a migrant flock of blackbirds spilling across an October sky. The vibrancy and electricity within the natural world, whether it be wildlife or landscape, is something I never tire of. In fact the reverse is true. My passion for the natural world continues to grow. This type of specialized interest affords an artist a lifetime of study of his subject matter”.

 Jeff’s paintings have been exhibited across the country and around the world including the Society Of Animal Artists annual exhibition and tour as well as the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum’s Birds in Art Exhibit and World Tour. His 2002 exhibit “Wildlife, Landscape & Wildlife in Landscape” at the Journey Museum in Rapid City South Dakota was just one of his many one-man exhibitions. His paintings have won him numerous national awards including three time winner of the top award at the Kentucky National Wildlife Exhibition, the Society of Animal Artists Elliot Liskin Memorial Award for Representational Painting and the coveted Society Of Animal Artists “Award Of Excellence”.

 

 

Winter Red Fox

$1850

Acrylic

12″x9″

If from some unforeseeable fate I was left only be able to paint foxes for the rest of my days it would certainly be a blissful fate. I simply never tire of them and they are at their visual best when in a winter thaw and surrounded by a patchwork of earth, leaves and grasses beginning to show through the melting snow. The two are inseparable and it’s difficult for me to get a new idea for a fox painting that doesn’t include that very situation. Foxes just look fantastic in a thaw.

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Erica Wainwright
Cincinnati Museum Center

Slate Colored Junco

$1295 Sold

Acrylic

8″x10″

Juncos go hand in hand with winter. One of the first to show up at my feeders in November their tones of grey and white are a great complement to snowy days and the golden colored weedy plants they forage around.

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Cincinnati Museum Center

October Ending

$12500

Acrylic

22″x28″

“October Ending” is a scene I have come across a number of times on both the east and west side of Michigan’s lower peninsula. This scene was from the Traverse City region along Lake Michigan in late October and a day when a real change in the season was in the air with gathering storm clouds and a building wind ripping across the bay. While the Blue Jay may chose to ‘winter it out’ there, most of the migrating birds still in the area would be heading south come nightfall. The morning will see spitting snow and all but a few of the golden birch leaves stripped away leaving barren branches stark against the cold, steel grey sky. I cherish fall in Ohio but I have to say of that state up north that the sweet, intoxicating aroma of their autumn’s decaying, fermenting leaves and a free flowing English Setter coursing out in front of me in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula grouse woods is most certainly the grandest of all siren songs. If you ever catch that aroma you will have to go back, it’s unlike anything else.

How to Purchase
To purchase this artwork please email the name of the piece you want along with the artist’s name.
EMAIL TO:
Erica Wainwright
Cincinnati Museum Center