western american art

By June the Light Begins to Breathe, Keith Jacobshagen

Keith Jacobshagen is a keen observer of the prairie that surrounds his home in Lincoln, Nebraska. But his use of extremely low horizon lines fills his canvases with sky and adds an emotional dimension to his work.

“There are times when I read the paintings in the most practical way and I believe that they are simply about seeing the light falling across a space in the landscape in the late afternoon,” he says. But, he admits, “I also hope that the images go a step further into some kind of spiritual realm.”

Modern & Contemporary Art