Lot 463
**Originally Listed At $350**
Lockwood "Woody" Dennis (American, 19372012). "House 10" oil on canvas, 2008. Signed, dated, and titled on verso. A cool hush settles over "House 10," where a pale gabled structure stands nestled between two dark evergreens, its symmetry and stillness evoking the quiet permanence of place. Painted in 2008, this oil on canvas showcases Lockwood Dennis's enduring fascination with architectural presence and the poetics of suburban form. The composition is symmetrical and iconic, a study in balance and soft tension. Flanked by dense green trees that rise like sentinels, the central house emerges in tonal contrast - cool blues and silvers gently reflecting the waning light beneath a canopy of bare, sienna-toned branches. Purple shadows skirt the foundation. An ochre-hued lawn spreads out before the steps, flattened and golden in the winter light. Above it all, the washed sky fades to a soft neutrality, heightening the scene's introspective stillness. Size: 10" W x 8" H (25.4 cm x 20.3 cm)
As in many of Dennis's works, this house is not just a structure, but a vessel of lived experience - familiar yet formal, grounded yet fleeting. It speaks to the artist's lifelong exploration of space, atmosphere, and the fragile hold that places have on us over time. Dennis once wrote: "The impetus to paint is always an experience - a specific place, weather, ordinary things remembered." In "House 10," that remembrance is distilled into form, light, and presence - clear, composed, and quietly resonant.
Lockwood "Woody" Dennis was driven to paint throughout his 45-year career and each canvas reveals new aspects about him as a person - his approaches to life, the environment, and art. During the early years, Woody was most influenced by the works of Post-Impressionist pioneers of early Modernism such as Cezanne and Matisse. As he evolved, Woody developed a graphic style that was informed by the style and imagery he created for his woodblock prints.
Dennis was quite eloquent and insightful when asked about his art. The following is an excerpt from the "On Impetus" section of his "Philosophical Musings on Painting": "The impetus to paint is always an experience - a specific place, weather, ordinary things remembered. A celebration of just being here, experiencing the world. The experience itself is somehow lost in the process, and, anyway, its not intended that it should be conveyed. The result is a picture animated by that experience."
Dennis continued, "A painting starts with an exuberance. It's good to be alive. The work is a wonderful place. The feeling seems to cover everything, but it relates especially to past experiences, beginning further back than I can remember. It becomes specific in associations with past experiences: Portland, Eastern Washington, Africa; but not with an exact description. The memory of a precise place and time - a moment of past reality is too terrible to bear, there is such a sense of loss, of things gone forever. So it is a present experience, based on the past. And perhaps the cartoon character adds the levity to remove it from the past, or 'animate' it in the present."
Lockwood Dennis paintings have been collected by the following museums and organizations: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington; Seattle Art Commission, Seattle, Washington; Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington; Swedish Medical Center Foundation, Seattle, Washington; Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, Washington; Jefferson Museum of Art and History, Port Townsend, Washington; Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington; Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, Washington; Clallam County Historical Society, Port Angeles, Washington; Bainbridge Island Art Museum, Winslow, Washington; US Library of Congress, Washington, DC; US State Department, Washington, DC.
Provenance: Lockwood Dennis Art Estate, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Condition: Painting is in excellent overall condition. Signed, dated, and titled with inventory number on verso. Inventory number and house number also inscribed on top edge.
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