In a recent article, the New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl described the landscape artist Rackstraw Downes’s work as evidence that “painting can be truer than photography,” and looking at the ...

Rackstraw Downes, “Under a U-Turn on the Ramp from the George Washington Bridge to Rte. 9A North” (2013), oil on canvas, 23 1/2 x 37 in. (59.69 x 93.98 cm) (all images courtesy of Betty Cunningham ...

Rackstraw Downes is an American and British artist known for his oil paintings that often depict industry and the environment with elongated compositions and complex perspective. Born in 1939 in ...

This Saturday, at the Betty Cunningham Gallery, on Rivington Street, there will be a rare showing of Rima Yamazaki’s film “Rackstraw Downes: A Painter.” If it sounds like a documentary about Rackstraw ...

British-born artist, teacher, editor and writer Rackstraw Downes will speak on “Thoughts of a Painter” April 30. There will be a reception at 5:30 p.m., and the lecture begins at 6 p.m. at the ...

Rackstraw Downes, "Looking Down from the Window of a Friend's on the Upper West Side" (c. 1975), graphite on manilla paper, 24 x 30 7/8 inches (all images courtesy Betty Cuningham Gallery) Rackstraw ...

"Paint what you see! Paint what you see!" so exclaims Stanley Lewis to a group visiting his retrospective at American University in 2007, describing the mammoth challenge that he faces daily in his ...

Rackstraw Downes: A Painter is glacial and mesmerizing, the documentary equivalent of droning Tibetan singing bowls, a work crafted to induce its audience into the same contemplative state as its ...

On “Red Grooms: Handiwork, 1955–2018,” at Marlborough Contemporary, “Rackstraw Downes: Paintings & Drawings” at Betty Cuningham Gallery, “Graham Nickson: Cumulus, Monumental Trees and Transient Skies” ...