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Robert Jordan A Retrospective July 1 - July 25, 1998. Robert Jordan (1925-1993), an artist specializing in American landscapes and interiors, developed a distinctive style as well as a quiet, but important, voice in the tradition of American masters such as Inness, Homer, Eakins and Hopper. The threads that tie Jordan's work to the American masters of the past are an uncommon observational skill and great subtlety and refinement in his treatment of light and shadow. Hauntingly lovely, as opposed to "pretty", Jordan's paintings are of dense forests, moonlit meadows and shadowed coves from Maine to the Carolinas. Figures in Jordan's landscapes and interiors, when they appear at all, are frequently uncertain and tenuous‹people quietly or suddenly aware of or overwhelmed by the mystery, immensity and indifference of nature. An observer of nature in all its forms, Jordan's affinity for the natural world and its deceptive simplicity radiates from the ripping lake surfaces, early moons and breezy sitting rooms captured in his paintings. Hilton Kramer in The New York Times, 1979, wrote: "The romance of light and shadow dominates this series of American landscapes and interiors in which a suggestion of the anecdotal lives on easy terms with flawless pictorial technique. One is reminded, from time to time, of Edward Hopper in the way Mr. Jordan constructs his homely scenes of quiet country life, but there is nothing of Hopper's dour emotion here. There is instead an easier attitude towards experience-a felicitous tranquility and an evident love of nature combined with a conviction that painting has not yet lost its power to evoke a common alphabet of feeling." If you are interested in any of these works, feel free to email geeta@creiger-dane.com. The navigation buttons on the upper right will take you to the top (this page), previous, and next page in this show. You may click on our logo at any time to return to our home page. We hope you enjoy your visit, and invite you to sign our Guest Book. |
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 The Shadowed Cove with artist's notes The Beech Forest Barn at Night Carolina Woods Moonwalk Moon and Boulder Light in the Cove October in Virginia The Sitting Room Julio's Studio December Moon November, Pinkham Notch Borderland |