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Feb 1, 2000 · Louisa McElwain | A Life in Full. Anvil II, oil, 58 x 72. By Gussie Fauntleroy. Louisa McElwain serves almond tea in a red-and-white polka-dot tea set, with raisin and chocolate chip cookies baked by her two young daughters. Assorted animal sounds—the sporadic shrieking of cockateels, the soft scuffling of a lop-eared rabbit across the smooth ...
LOUISA MCELWAIN 1953 - 2013Contact EVOKE Contemporary for further information. LOUISA MCELWAIN. Louisa Mcelwain has been a resident of New Mexico since 1985. Louisa McElwain is a plein-air artist, an impressionist, who loves to paint the New Mexico sky and landscape.
(1953 – 2013) Louisa McElwain adored summer storms, especially the way the light changes and the clouds dance across the horizon ahead of the rain. Living in the country, 20 miles outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Louisa was in tune with the changing weather. If it looked like “one of those days,” she was quick to pack up her pick-up truck and head out to find that “power spot” for ...
When Louisa McElwain isn’t painting, chances are she’s tackling the chores endemic to her farm north of Santa Fe near Española, where she raises horses and cattle and keeps fruit and vegetable gardens. On the grounds is a studio, mainly for the contemplation and storage of finished works, all of which have been painted outdoors.
View Louisa McElwain's available paintings Louisa McElwain matches her expressive style to the rhythms of the Western land and sky by Gussie Fauntleroy; photos by Mark Nohl Published online courtesy of Western Art & Architecture, June/July, 2012 Louisa McElwain, Exsultate, oil on canvas, 60"x72" New Mexico painter
Louisa McElwain has lived and painted in New Mexico since 1985, working outdoors under a variety of conditions, open to the impulse of changing light, wind, heat, cold, insects and forces of Nature, which bring life to her paintings. For McElwain, painting is a physical meditation, a dance to the tempo of the evolving day.
View Louisa McElwain’s 42 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available paintings for sale and learn about the artist.
