About This Item:

• Acrylic, Pastel + Shellac on Canvas

• 36” L x 1.5” W x 48” H

• 2012

Douglas Max Utter worked on a series of aerial landscape paintings with a grant he received from Cleveland’s Creative Workforce Fellowship. Red Car in the Morning is one of the last in this aerial series that is available. It is created with acrylic, shellac and pastel on canvas, completed in 2012, and signed by the artist in the front lower corner of the canvas. Red Car in Morning is a beautiful rendition of the midwest American landscape, portrayed with vivid, contemporary color and expressionist brushwork.

Douglas Max Utter (b 1950) is an award winning Cleveland based artist and writer, whose work has been shown extensively since the mid 1980’s, with over forty one- person shows in Cleveland, New York, Phoenix and Germany. Utter’s work in painting and criticism has been recognized with a 2011 Creative Workforce Fellowship, three Individual Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, the Best Painting Award at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Show (1987), and journalism awards from the Cleveland Press Club and the Poets and Writers Guild of Greater Cleveland. He is the recipient of a 2013 Cleveland Arts Prize, Lifetime Achievement Award.