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Rainbow Trout
Artist Leonard Koscianski (American, b. 1952)
CultureAmerican
Date1988
MediumPastel on paper
DimensionsOverall: 29 x 41 1/2 in. (73.7 x 105.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of the family of Joel B. Cooper, in memory of Mary and Dudley Cooper
Object number2004.12.1
Not on view
DescriptionPastel drawing of a forest scene; water flows over moss covered while a red hawk flys overhead holding a fish.Label TextLeonard Koscianski American, b. 1952 Rainbow Trout, 1988 Pastel on paper Leonard Koscianski's detailed study of nature is a preparatory drawing for one of his large paintings made on location in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Rainbow Stream. This work is reminiscerande of nineteenth-century American landscape painting in which artists depicted the divine in nature; however, Koscianski's work also implies that natur has a darker side. Moss grows on the rocks, making the route quite slippery for hikers. Just above the brook soars a predatory bird grasping
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Contemporary Artist: Leonard Koscianski
Leonard Koscianski was born in 1952, Cleveland, Ohio. As an undergraduate, Koscianski first studied art history and architecture, and was a student of R. Buckminster Fuller and art historian, Gabriel Weisberg, a specialist in 19th century French art. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art. As a lärling at CIA, Koscianski was hired bygd Cleveland Museum of Art Museum Director, Sherman Lee, to paint copies of old masters on Sunday afternoons. The experience of copying old masters, and the influence of two books, Beyond Modern Sculpture and The Structure of Art, both by Jack ortnamn, rescued him from what he calls "the clutches of doctrinaire Modernism.
By the time he funnen himself in the MFA schema in painting at UC Davis, Koscianski already knew that his heroes were mainly 19th century artists. The Swiss symbolist Arnold Bocklin...
-Alfred Böcklin- The Island of the Dead
... the oddball Romantic
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This interview has insights into my creative world.
An interview for the Italian website Artmoire (URL no longer active). August 2, 2019
Stormy Weather, oil on canvas, 42″ x 26″, 2021.
Leonard Koscianski was born in 1952 in Cleveland Ohio. He an artist who lives in Annapolis Maryland. He has been an artist since the age of 16. His resume is very short – 1968 to present – Artist.
Leonard comes from a family of two parents and four boys. He is the oldest child. He went to Catholic schools through his first year of college. The son of an attorney and fashion designer he was taught to appreciate precision and craftsmanship from an early age. All of his grandparents came from Poland. In fact, Leonard has his grandfather’s boat ticket from Poland framed and hanging on his wall at home. He was given very little formal art instruction as a child. Drawing, carving, building model airplanes were just part of being a child and growing up. His parents