Into A Pine Woods from the collection of Saint John's On The Lake

Into A Pine Woods

Oil on canvas

42.875 x 60 in

Signature: Signature LL corner

Location: Town Center

“Into A Pine Woods” presents the viewer with a stunning array of colors and offers a rich experience with Wisconsin’s woodlands. Artist Rodger Bechtold is a Midwest native and has lived and worked between Chicago and Door County most of his life. He studied at the American Academy of Art, Chicago, the School Of The Art institute of Chicago and was mentored by the Color Field Painter Wolf Kahn. He abandoned his commercial art illustration career of many years, in favor of painting landscapes full time.

Over time Bechtold has built a solid reputation for being a major contributor to the dialog in contemporary landscape painting in the Midwest and beyond. His work is expressed with energy, painted with seemingly effortless brushwork and charged with color. All connected by place and moment. Bechtold is currently represented by Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee’s Third Ward.

Tall pine trees over purple, green, and orange background; oil on canvas.

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About the artist

Rodger Bechtold

American

b. 1945

Rodger Bechtold was born in 1945 in Michigan was raised in central Illinois and has lived in and around Chicago since age eighteen. He nurtured his interests in the visual arts at the American Academy of Art, Chicago and the School Of The Art institute of Chicago. Involved in commercial art illustration for many years he abandoned that pursuit some thirty years ago in favor of painting landscapes full time.

What really ignited this passion for painting was his exposure to mentor Wolf Kahn through the Santa Fe Institute Of Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico as part of the Masters Art Program. Over time Bechtold has built a solid reputation for being a major contributor to the on going dialog in contemporary landscape painting in the mid west and beyond. His work is expressed with energy, painted with seemingly effortless brushwork and charged with color. All connected by place and moment.

His paintings, some monumental in size, have been seen in solo and featured exhibitions in museums and prominent galleries as well as public and private collections across the United States. Bechtold and his wife, botanical illustrator Glory Bechtold, live and work near Chicago and in Door County Wisconsin.