Peter Poskas (American, born 1939)
Peter Poskas’ poetic images work with shapes, color, and light. Born in Waterbury Connecticut, Poskas is best known for his realist landscapes of Connecticut and Monhegan, Maine. He studied forestry and wildlife at the University of Connecticut before attending Paier Art School in New Haven.
Skinner, Inc. March 2007.
Peter Poskas is an acclaimed landscape painter who paints realist views of the towns and landscapes of Litchfield County, Connecticut. A graduate of the Hartford Art School and the MFA program of the University of Massachusetts, Poskas embraced realism during a period when Abstract Expressionism was in favor. With their crisply detailed execution and sensitivity to subtle gradations of light, Poskas’s works are both realistic depictions and poetic evocations. In the tradition of Andrew Wyeth, Poskas’s work evokes an immediate sense of time and place.
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