John Weidenhamer

Art Brokerage: John Weidenhamer American Artist: The artist completed his first painting in 1949. Some of his early paintings were as large as 42 x 480 inches. They were completed with tempera paint on heavy white roll paper. His early works were either figurative featuring crowds of people and their surroundings or landscape paintings of places in Ohio, Indiana and Arizona. Most landscape paintings were small, and one of the earliest was an 11 x 14 inch vertical landscape of a tall butte in Monument Valley, Arizona. It featured a road and was an oil painting on canvas board. His first exhibition, at the age of eleven, was at the Toledo Museum Of Art. The artist graduated Purdue University and attended The Art Institute Chicago. The artist had several exhibitions of his combat art while in the United States Army. He painted in Cambodia, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Laos, the Sudan and Afghanistan. Although Mr. Weidenhamer started with temperas and oils, and later experimented with opaque watercolors and caseins, he has used acrylic polymer paint almost exclusively since 1962. As preparation for his paintings, he makes pen and ink, Ebony pencil and occasionally brush and ink drawings on premium illustration board. In the past he has used pastels, colored pencils and watercolors on a variety of papers and boards in addition to the Ebony pencil for his preliminaries. While the artist has painted portraits and figurative rnworks, as well as the combat art, he started painting his realistic highway landscapes, which have become the hallmark of his career. Listings wanted.