This great painting shows another lowcountry thunderstorm rolling in over the marsh. The with herons part refers to a small flock of little herons flying away from the storm - you can barely see them in the real painting.
Absolutely beautiful! The drama of the thunderstorm to come is so captivating.We share a love for Martin Johnson Heade, who painted the Southern New England marshes where I live.
Johnson Hagood is a painter working in Charleston, South Carolina, in the luminist style. His paintings are influenced by the Hudson River School and primarily Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett, and Sanford Robinson Gifford. Hagood paints the rapidly disappearing barrier islands and marshes of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Frequently his canvases are in an elongated horizontal format, a format also favored by Heade, and include sunrises or sunsets, also another fleeting element in his work. The only human evidence in his paintings is the occassional light emitting from a far off land bank at dusk - a constant reminder of the eventual development of a vanishing landscape. His work is included in over two hundred private collections and in the collections of Bank of America, Bellsouth, City of Charleston, Carolina First Bank, Gibbes Museum of Art, Morris Museum of Art, Roper Hospital, Safety Kleen Corporation, & Wild Dunes Corporation.
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Absolutely beautiful! The drama of the thunderstorm to come is so captivating.We share a love for Martin Johnson Heade, who painted the Southern New England marshes where I live.
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