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Harry Orlyk
#5511 The Old Walker House: Modern Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting on Linen

2017

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landscape oil painting on linen on homasote board, unframed 13.75 x 18.25 inches Harry Orlyk is celebrated for his ability to capture an rural country landscape with impressionistic brushstrokes and a bright color palette. Painting daily, the artist drives throughout the upstate New York, stopping to observe and paint 'en plain air' whenever and wherever a landscape strikes him. Orlyk prefers to leave his canvases unframed to reveal the exposed linen which are nailed to sturdy homasote boards for easy installation. This painting is a perfect example of Orlyk's impressionistic aesthetic. Here, the artist captures a lush green farm field towards the end of summer. Pale green and yellow, orange leaves begin to appear atop late summertime trees and crop fields. The warm fall foliage contrasts against a bright blue sky. An old country farm house sits in the foreground against a row of orange tinted trees. Thick layers of paint are applied with expressive brushstrokes and culminate onto a textured, impasto surface. The artist's signature is located in the lower left corner. About the artist: Harry Orlyk was born in Troy, New York in 1947. In 1971 after graduating college, he went on to graduate school at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln . Over the next nine years, he was influenced by several Nebraskan artists. "Still-life painter Robin Smith taught me how to use paint without turpentine - to paint from the tube." He also admits the influence of photographer Lawrence McFarland who taught him what spiritual space was, and how to emphasize it. Lastly he credits well-known Lincoln painter Keith Jacobshagen with having impressed on him the importance of routine. He currently resides with his family in Salem, New York, near the Vermont border. About the work: For anyone raised in the country, Harry Orlyk’s impressionist oil paintings spark a sense memory that is at once shared and deeply personal. His work evokes a return to days spent as a kid when you played behind “Old Hap’s Barn”, or played hide-and-seek in the cornfield. If raised in the city, Orlyk’s paintings illustrate what you fantasized living in the country would be like. With each changing day and season, Orlyk reminds us of the simplistic beauty inherent in rural, small town America.
  • Creator:
    Harry Orlyk (1947, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2017
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 13.75 in (34.93 cm)Width: 18.25 in (46.36 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Hudson, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2272311841
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