![Gregory Kondos - Rutherford Vineyard [1990]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/686/20994851230_ebfbfced95_o.jpg)
Gregory Kondos has spent decades depicting California’s unique, majestic beauty, from its rolling farmland to its varied coastline, to the forests and peaks of Yosemite, where he has often served as artist-in-residence. He has been drawn as well to the deserts around Santa Fe, and to Europe, especially Greece, the country from which his parents emigrated. Now in his nineties, he is celebrated as one of the world’s foremost landscape painters, known for his light-filled palette and intuitive, organic forms that seem like effortless extensions of nature.
[Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento - Oil on canvas, 88 x 88 inches]