The Large Works

Donna Marxer has always been a pastoral painter. Sometimes the work has been abstract, sometimes more realistic, but always based on nature. These works are based on the landscape, particularly the sky-- part of our world that is extraordinarily beautiful and frequently challenged. These landscapes have etched themselves on my internal canvas--a particular urban twilight, the light of Ireland, the panorama of midwestern fields of grass." All of the paintings, whatever the inspiration, are enigmatic and evocative, rather than specific.

Soundview Long Island Sound through a doorway. Oil on canvas, 68"X40"

Two-part Invention Leaving the glowing colors of the Smokies for Manhattan? Why not have both? Oil on canvas, 6'X4'

Goldcoast Blues A fanciful skyline of Miami combining
night and day. Oil on canvas, 4'X11'6"

The Butterfly Landscape is a panorama montage of the art colony in Costa Rica Marxer calls, “My Giverny.” Costa Rica is filled with glorious mountains, bamboo, flowers, magnificent skies, and always, butterflies. Acrylic on canvas. 18” X 94.”

A Piedmont Summer Oil on canvas, 4'X12'

Nightfall at Annaghmakerrig (Irish series) Oil on
canvas,48"X86"

Doo Lough (Irish series) Oil on canvas,
40"X50"

In the Wake of the Half Moon painted in the
Catskills, where the Hudson River narrows
and the view is from the great American
painter Frederick Church's estate, "Olana,"
Oil on canvas, 4'X9'4"

Prairie Series

In the 90s, Donna Marxer was a four-time fellow at the Ragdale Foundation, a prestigious art colony in Lake Forest, IL. Here she produced "Four Seasons on the Prairie," a series of more than 50 works highlighted by four signature paintings marking the seasons.

Autumn

4-ftX11 1/2-ft

Winter

4-ftX11 1/2-ft

Spring

4-ftX11 1/2-ft

Summer

4-ftX11 1/2-ft

Paths Through Sanguine
Oil on canvas, 40"X50"

High Summer Oil on canvas,
40"X50"

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