Alan Paine Radebaugh
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Alan Paine Radebaugh, a contemporary American artist, was born May 2, 1952 in Boston, Massachusetts, raised in Maine and New York, and moved to New Mexico in 1979.
He grew up painting, primarily in oils. At the College of Wooster, where he enrolled to study premed, he spent his time taking photographs and designing jewelry. He left Wooster to become a jeweler, later spent ten years designing sculptural art furniture, and returned to painting full time in 1988.
Radebaugh's work has been shown in museums and galleries in the United States and abroad. In 2004, he had a 20-year retrospective, Alan Paine Radebaugh: Chasing Fragments 1984–2004, in Albuquerque, NM. In 2007 Mass: Of Our World, exhibited at the Jonson Gallery of the University of New Mexico Art Museum, won an award for excellence in fine arts.
His artworks are housed in the collections of corporations and cultural institutions including Albuquerque Museum; New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; Ohio State University–Shisler Center, Wooster, Ohio; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico; The College of Wooster, Ohio; and University of New Mexico Art Museum.
Writing about New Mexico landscape artists, critic Wesley Pulkka commented, "Dappled by sunlight and rough textured as tree bark, Radebaugh's surfaces celebrate nature like a Gerard Manley Hopkins
poem."
In a later analysis of Radebaugh's work, Douglas Kent Hall
wrote, "Radebaugh is clearly a landscape painter. Yet, he is a landscape painter of a very different kind…. To a certain degree Radebaugh is doing what Jackson Pollock
did as an artist….Radebaugh, too, is an action painter….The action he presents is in slow motion, few drips, if any, but plenty of gesture. The painting is what he creates….If Pollack and others from the abstract expressionist school freed line and form from their traditional roles in painting, Radebaugh has responded to their spontaneity and extended it with his almost self-conscious linear detailing."
He grew up painting, primarily in oils. At the College of Wooster, where he enrolled to study premed, he spent his time taking photographs and designing jewelry. He left Wooster to become a jeweler, later spent ten years designing sculptural art furniture, and returned to painting full time in 1988.
Radebaugh's work has been shown in museums and galleries in the United States and abroad. In 2004, he had a 20-year retrospective, Alan Paine Radebaugh: Chasing Fragments 1984–2004, in Albuquerque, NM. In 2007 Mass: Of Our World, exhibited at the Jonson Gallery of the University of New Mexico Art Museum, won an award for excellence in fine arts.
His artworks are housed in the collections of corporations and cultural institutions including Albuquerque Museum; New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; Ohio State University–Shisler Center, Wooster, Ohio; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico; The College of Wooster, Ohio; and University of New Mexico Art Museum.
Analysis of Work
David L. Bell, writing about Radebaugh's sculptural furniture, noted that it has "acute proportion, impeccable detailing."Writing about New Mexico landscape artists, critic Wesley Pulkka commented, "Dappled by sunlight and rough textured as tree bark, Radebaugh's surfaces celebrate nature like a Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous 20th-century fame established him among the leading Victorian poets...
poem."
In a later analysis of Radebaugh's work, Douglas Kent Hall
Douglas Kent Hall
Douglas Kent Hall was an American writer and photographer. Hall was a fine art photographer and writer of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, essays, and screenplays...
wrote, "Radebaugh is clearly a landscape painter. Yet, he is a landscape painter of a very different kind…. To a certain degree Radebaugh is doing what Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock , known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and...
did as an artist….Radebaugh, too, is an action painter….The action he presents is in slow motion, few drips, if any, but plenty of gesture. The painting is what he creates….If Pollack and others from the abstract expressionist school freed line and form from their traditional roles in painting, Radebaugh has responded to their spontaneity and extended it with his almost self-conscious linear detailing."
Further reading
- Douglas Kent Hall, "Art of Albuquerque 2002: A World of Paint and Polish," Art of Albuquerque (Albuquerque: Magnifico, 2002), 4.
- The Collector's Guide, "Alan Paine Radebaugh," Art Journey New Mexico: 104 Painters' Perspectives (Cincinnati: The Collector's Guide, 2009), 162–63.