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American colorist Ronnie Landfield’s Structure and Color opens at Stephen Haller Gallery

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Ronnie Landfield: Structure and Color an exhibition of paintings by the renowned American colorist whose work is included in more than 40 museums and public collections at the Stephen Haller Gallery. Sept 8th through Oct 15th. During the nearly five decades of his career Ronnie Landfield has stayed true to his course as a painter of soaring veils of color. Louis Zona, Director of the Butler Institute of American Art, wrote: “To stand in front of a Landfield painting is to be transported into a world where color feeds upon color and every inch of the canvas is considered.” Ronnie Landfield was the youngest of the youthquake generation of American artists of the 1960’s. He began his career at the Kansas City Art Institute at the age of 16. By 1969 his luminous paintings had already been exhibited in museum exhibitions such as the Whitney Annual (later Biennial). He had his first solo e