Paul Matthews was a complicated artist. Sometimes an expressionist, sometimes a realist, he veered across conventional categories at will, switching back and forth from luminous portraiture to macabre narrative, and from mythological erotica to Fauve collage. In his Keene, NY studio, all these different modes were in play. But over time, the Adirondack landscape around him began to feature more and more centrally in his work.
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