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Tag Archives: Alex Colville

Horse and Train: How a Photorealist Portrays Angels (The Art of Alex Colville, Part 2)

Posted on July 26, 2018August 8, 2018 by Mike Mason

Alex Colville’s art is full of black animals: dogs, cats, crows, horses. Consider his most famous painting, “Horse and Train.”

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Dog and Priest: Which Is Which? (The Art of Alex Colville, Part I)

Posted on July 12, 2018July 12, 2018 by Mike Mason

The Canadian painter Alex Colville (1920-2013) was that most curious of artistic hybrids, both a realist and a modernist. In fact art critic Jeffrey Myers, in an article entitled “Dangerously Real,” called Colville “one of the greatest modern realist painters.”

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