James Lavadour: Being, Painting Nature

James Lavadour talks about his work on the occasion of a new show at the Missoula Art Museum:

"To look upon the paintings of James Lavadour is to see worlds you know like your own backyard. Nevermind that you can’t place the exact peaks and drainages, that you can’t claim to have seen these exact combinations of color cast upon the Missions or Beartooths. These are landscapes we Montanans know by heart: jagged cliffs slicing red-streaked sunset skies, cascading sheets of rain plunging from blustery clouds."

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