Eugene Leake

Eugene "Bud" Leake pronounced "Leaky" (31 August 1911 – 21 January 2005) was a landscape painter and president of the Maryland Institute College of Art. His put on an act was characterized by a consistent duty to the depiction of the landscape, not when ever-changing trends of contemporary art in the 20th century. In an October 2000 Baltimore Sun article Glenn McNatt wrote that, "For the taking into account quarter century, Leake has been recording that landscape in whatever its moods and seasons, from riotous sun-drenched spring mornings to the magical warm feeling of autumnal sunsets. His paintings are imbued with an unmistakable desirability of place that lonesome one who has lived in and loved the surrounding landscape can create."

"Leake belongs to the long tradition of American artists who have had often-rapturous adore affairs with nature. His law are heirs to the excitement of the oil sketches of English master John Constable (1776-1837) and the beforehand works of French landscape artist Camille Corot (1796-1875), both of whom insisted that painting must be based upon observable facts and reflect the unlimited of the moment."

In a 1993 ARTnews article Tom Weisser wrote: "Leake's good strength is his talent to take control of the essence of things later than economy and simple grace. Light, space, and climate materialize in his pictures from what seems to be an perfect minimum of brushwork. His paint has a soft, buttery quality. Yet the viewer can more or less feel the flat, hard frosty of Leake's gray winter mornings, the snap of his autumn afternoons, and the electricity in his collection summer skies."

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