Artwork copyright Robert Connell. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Artwork copyright Robert Connell. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Rocks and Golden Hills of WA, 1999

Robert Connell
American (born 1947)

Location: Maple View Middle School, Covington

About the Artwork

Artist Robert Connell began his northwest landscape Rocks and Golden Hills of WA on location using black Japanese sumi ink. Bringing the painting into his studio, Connell added color by layering gouache paint using a printmaking brayer. This piece is part of the artist's body of work that uses the negative space created by exposed, unpainted paper to imply water and sky. This technique brings together realistic and abstract elements in his compositions.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Tahoma School District.

About the Artist

Robert Connell is a Seattle-base artist whose landscape paintings are characterized by his use of Japanese Sumi ink to emphasize positive and negative space. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1970.