Description: Why Pay Retail?! No Reasonable Offer Refused! Price includes Shipping, Handling, Insurance & our 100% Money Back Guarantee!***********************************Tranquility by By Ronald Louque (bio below)Image is 12 x 12 printed on 16 x 16 Paper - Signed and Numbered by the artist.***********************************Ron Louque Biography Ron Louque was born in New Orleans, LA, and now lives in Charlottesville, VA. While growing upin south Louisiana, he was introduced to the beauties of nature through hunting and fishing, and byage nine he was enrolled in a taxidermy correspondence course. This art-form became a passionfor the young outdoorsman, and it soon led him deeper into the world of birds and animals thatinhabited the swamps of his bayou homeland. While mounting hundred's of specimens during histeenage years, Louque's interest in the natural world deepened, and eventually lead him to hisformal study of nature. He entered Louisiana State University as a forestry/wildlife major in 1970,but he soon switched to zoology and ornithology, a curriculum more suited to his interest....Birds. Louque's introduction to art came in 1972 through the curator of the L.S.U. Museum of NaturalHistory, P. Ambrose Daigre. Later he was introduced to two artist-ornithologists, John O'Neill andDouglas Pratt, who were zoology graduate students as well as proficient bird painters. From themhe learned the important techniques of bird illustration which have led him to his current status as aworld champion waterfowl stamp artist. Later he met the internationally acclaimed Russian-Germanrealist artist, Adolf Sehring, who was instrumental in helping him to understand the importance oflight and composition in his paintings. The renowned Texas artist, Dalhart Windberg, has warmlypraised Louque for his proficiency as seen in the refined technique of his paintings. In 1973 Louque spent three months camping in the remote areas of the Peruvian Andes withornithologist-artist John O'Neill during a field research expedition for the LSU Museum of NaturalHistory. While there, the team collected and preserved over fifteen hundred specimens, including onethat was new to science, a tanager found near the 8,000 foot elevation on the eastern slopes of thecloud forest. In 1974 Louque began his career as a professional artist. He was immediately seen as the new'Audubon', French-Cajun style, and his early work reflected that influence. His paintings, combininganatomical accuracy as well as sheer beauty, led to his becoming one of the top five duck andconservation stamp artists in the nation by the late 1980's. Moving to Virginia in 1983, Louque began to paint the landscapes and wildlife habitats of theMid-Atlantic and Blue Ridge Mountains. He has developed his multifaceted artistic style over the past37 years to include not only Audubon-like bird and mammal paintings, but also European inspiredlandscapes, figurative portraits and still lives, a versatility that is difficult to achieve. Since the beginning of his art career in 1974, Louque's work has brought him national recognitionand awards. These have included the Ward Foundation's World Champion Wildfowl Master title in1984, American Masters Foundation Recipient in 1978, numerous magazine covers includingDucks Unlimited, Audubon, Louisiana Conservationist, Plow & Hearth, and others. He is mostrevered for his record of 28 State Conservation Stamp designs, and his crowning achievement ofwinning the 2002 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest. Ron entered the federal contest for the firsttime in 1973 and had placed in the top finalists many times before winning first place in 2002. Over the past thirty-six years, Louque has exhibited his paintings in 88 cities in the U.S. andhas issued 86 limited edition prints selling over 106,000 prints. He is also a conservation-mindedperson, and is thankful to the many organizations across the U.S. that have worked to preserve ournatural resources over the past 100 years. His stamp paintings have helped in raising millions of dollarsfor conservation. He states: 'Preserving our God given environment and our wildlife resources isvital to our quality of life on this planet. We can no longer take these gifts of nature for granted'. Ron Louque is inspired by the beauty of nature and so he paints it with fidelity in honor of theCreator. 'To portray with paint and canvas this magnificent creation is a priviledge that I do nottake lightly. I am in a constant state of awe and wonder as I observe the power, beauty, majestyand diversity of life forms and habitats of the planet earth'. Tags: winter, winter landscape, landscape, country landscape, red barn, farm, farm house, snowman, sled, rail fence, trees, bushes
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Title: Tranquility
Type: Print
Culture: American
Signed: Signed
Original/Licensed Reprint: Licensed Reprint
Handmade: No
Artist: Ronald Louque
Production Technique: Offset Lithograph
Framing: Unframed
Style: Americana, Impressionism
Material: Paper
Theme: Agriculture
Image Orientation: Landscape
Subject: Landscape
Print Type: Lithograph
Size Type/Largest Dimension: 12x12 Inch Image
Signed?: Signed
Original/Reproduction: Original Print
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Edition Type: Limited Edition
Edition Size: 2500