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 ...

Contributed by Mary Shah / Greg Lindquist and Theresa Dadezzio, co-founders of palladium/Athena Project, just opened their inaugural show, “Works on Paper,” featuring an impressive 175+ artists at ...

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 ...

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 ...

If religion died in the 19th century and became art, then there is no better place to see art than in a church. Though the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton was never a church, the design sure ...

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” ...

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 ...