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Jeff Troupe works on “Dusk on Main,” the final painting for his show, “Downtown Perspective,” at Wild
Eye Artistry in downtown Kalispell.
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Kalispell en Plein Air
Fine arts exhibition “Downtown Perspectives” by Jeff Troupe opened October 9
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estern artists drift toward places of natural wonder. Last November, Jeff Troupe, a
plein air painter from California, moved to the Flathead Valley with his wife,
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Patti. Like so many others, he was first drawn to Glacier National Park. Then he found inspiration somewhere else. He began painting buildings in downtown Kalispell.
He created almost 50 portraits of store- frontsandbusinessesonKalispell’sMain
Street. And through Oct. 23, Troupe will display these plein air paintings in his stu- dio at Wild Eye Artistry in Kalispell in a show called “Downtown Perspective.”
En plein air means “in open air” in French and describes works com- pleted outdoors in one session. Claude
Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, both French Impressionists, practiced paint- ing en plein air. The goal is not to ren- der the scene in photographic perfec- tion. Instead, plein air painters focus on the light, which expresses the fleet- ing moment and communicates its
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