Here's an oldie but goodie. I recently came across this pastel that I did in February of 1997. It belongs to a good client & friend. I was not the best record keeper in the past and it feels good to be able to document this piece. When it was done, where, who owns it, & etc.
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.