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Northwoods Shadows
48" x 54"
oil on canvas
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Summer Verde
44" x 40"
oil on canvas
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Western Shapes
12" x 18"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Misty Bales
30" x 36"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Reflections on Gore Creek
20" x 24"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Summer Yield
24" x 36"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Blue Wonder
50" x 42"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Gratitude
28" x 36"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Rhythm and Hues
15" x 17"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Sunset Summit
17" x 38"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Sage Horses
22" x 28"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Summer Interior
30" x 25"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Crossings
44" x 40"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Sawatch View
42" x 54"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Odessa Lake
48" x 60"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Winter Morn
30" x 40"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Across the Vail
60" x 54"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Alpine Bright
50" x 60"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Blue Bend
40" x 36"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Crystal River
23" x 32"
oil on linen
SOLD
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Alpine Winter
11" x 14"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Gore Creek
24" x 20"
oil on linen
SOLD
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November Day
36" x 40"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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September
30" x 60"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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February Plateau
42" x 48"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Above Pawnee
24" x 30"
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Encore at Piney
42" x 64" oil on canvas
SOLD
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Autumn Menagerie
20" x 24" oil on canvas
SOLD
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Rolling Light
36" x 40" oil on canvas
SOLD
“The landscape has always spoken to me, even from my earliest memories growing up in the country working the fields on my father’s tree nursery in Western NY. At best, the mundane can become music, even a symphony, the ordinary, beautiful. Painting for me, is translating to canvas what the eye “hears”, and doing so in a way that considers the lessons of the artists who have come before.”
In college, John Taft studied design at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, and then illustration while on scholarship at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. John began painting on weekends in 2001. In 2004, he left a successful 18 year career as a designer and art director in television, and moved with his family from New York to Colorado to pursue painting full time. In June 2012, John won the top Award of Excellence for landscape at the Oil Painters of America National Exhibition. Southwest Art Magazine did a feature article on John for their July 2012 issue.
John Taft Brochure 2011 (PDF)
Catalog of John Taft’s work (PDF)