Color Blasts: The brilliant palettes of E. Ambrose Webster and Robin Gowen

Punched-up, high-keyed, near-neon---the vivid tints employed by two painters, both of whom dabbled in unreal Fauvist colors reminiscent of Matisse and his contemporaries, are separated by a near-century but share a similarly memorable approach to landscape painting. Contemporary artist Robin Gowen (b. 1957) grew up in New Hampshire and Nigeria. She now paints the American West in a wide spectrum of colors: sometimes subtle shades of lavender and green, with simple chiaroscuro; other times deep magenta juxtaposed with mustard yellow, in wide, thick brushtrokes that nearly jump from the canva...