Horace Day

Horace Day (3 July 1909 – 24 March 1984), also Horace Talmage Day, was an American painter of the American scene who came to parenthood during the Thirties and was supple as a painter greater than the neighboring 50 years. He traveled widely in the United States and continued to probe throughout his moving picture subjects that first captured his attention as an artist in the Thirties. He gained early salutation for his portraits and landscapes, particularly his paintings in the Carolina Lowcountry.

Horace Day called himself a regional painter, interested in depicting the scenery of his adopted South. The style he chose to portray the landscapes and people of the South was a brand of Romantic Realism influenced by Claude Lorrain and Jacob van Ruisdael and also by the resonances in that landscape that he perceived next the rural, subtropical landscape and colonial architecture of southern China where he spent his prematurely years. He primarily worked outside, as a plein air painter, using quick impressionistic brush strokes to autograph album the scene.