Photograph of Artist STEVEN GORDON
STEVEN GORDON
Napa, CaliforniaNorthern California - United States



Original Artworks (20)

Steven Gordon; Stags Leap, 2012, Original Giclee Reproduction, 40 x 13 inches. Artwork description: 241 Just south of the village of Yountville, in the heart of Napa Valley, is a special large hill.  This hill was the domain of Robert Monday, the famed winemaker and Godfather of Napa Valley Wine Making.  His home was at the tip top of the hill which ...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2012
40 x 13 inches (101.6 x 33.0 cm)
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Steven Gordon; Telegraph To Russian Hill, 2010, Original Giclee Reproduction, 30 x 25 inches. Artwork description: 241 Beautiful limited edition giclA(c)e print based on an oil by Napa Valley Artist Steven Gordon.  A view of San Francisco s Telegraph Hill down to North Beach and up to Russian Hill at Sunset.  A Classic San Francisco view done in an impressionistic style. ...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2010
30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
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Steven Gordon; Au Sable River, 2020, Original Giclee Reproduction, 28 x 28 inches. Artwork description: 241 I created this pastel painting as a commissioned piece for a client whose husband is the quintessential avid fisherman.  He s traveled all over the U.  S.  and parts of the world scouting out the best streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans to do his thing.  I think ...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2020
28 x 28 inches (71.1 x 71.1 cm)
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Steven Gordon; UpValley, 2022, Original Giclee Reproduction, 36 x 21 inches. Artwork description: 241 MyUpValleybrings the beauty of Napa Valley during our Harvest on a full Fall day.  The vineyards and the trees along the roads are changing color and the largest iconic mountain in The Valley, Mount St.  Helena is seen towering in the distance.  The original oil painting was ...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2022
36 x 21 inches (91.4 x 53.3 cm)
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Steven Gordon; Four Corners, 2016, Original Pastel, 48 x 17 inches. Artwork description: 241 Road down from Sedona, AZ...
Steven Gordon
Original Pastel, 2016
48 x 17 inches (121.9 x 43.2 cm)
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Steven Gordon; Eastside Road, 2017, Original Pastel, 48 x 36 inches.
Steven Gordon
Original Pastel, 2017
48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
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Steven Gordon; Napa River Red, 2010, Original Giclee Reproduction, 28 x 28 inches. Artwork description: 241 Original was in pastel.  Scene of intense RED sunset over The Napa River in the southern Carneros part of the valley. ...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2010
28 x 28 inches (71.1 x 71.1 cm)
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Steven Gordon; Fresh Snow, 2007, Original Giclee Reproduction, 16 x 26 inches. Artwork description: 241 Limited Edition Print of snow scene in the Foothills of the Sierra Mountains.  Original was oil painting. ...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2007
16 x 26 inches (40.6 x 66.0 cm)
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Steven Gordon; West Napa Afternoon, 2008, Original Giclee Reproduction, 26 x 16 inches. Artwork description: 241  Late Afternoon Napa Valley Wine Country ...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2008
26 x 16 inches (66.0 x 40.6 cm)
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Steven Gordon; Martini Bench, 2011, Original Giclee Reproduction, 40 x 19 inches. Artwork description: 241  The Bench where friends join on Fridays for a martini in Yountville in Napa Valley Wine Country ...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2011
40 x 19 inches (101.6 x 48.3 cm)
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Steven Gordon; My Path, 2000, Original Giclee Reproduction, 40 x 13 inches. Artwork description: 241  Napa Valley Sunset ...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2000
40 x 13 inches (101.6 x 33.0 cm)
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Steven Gordon; Gabriels Games, 2002, Original Giclee Reproduction, 40 x 13 inches. Artwork description: 241  Napa Valley Sunset ...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2002
40 x 13 inches (101.6 x 33.0 cm)
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Steven Gordon; Oak Path, 2000, Original Giclee Reproduction, 20 x 16 inches. Artwork description: 241 Limited Edition Print from an original Pastel Painting Done in a more impressionistic style, this hiking and bike path in late afternoon light, sits between Sonoma and Napa counties where it is surrounded by Spanish moss, manzanita, and oak trees. ...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2000
20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
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Steven Gordon; Real Mustard, 2001, Original Giclee Reproduction, 40 x 13 inches. Artwork description: 241 Limited Edition Print from an original Pastel Painting Winter in Yountville in Napa Valley.  The old vines vineyard is covered with yellow mustard plant flowers which grow throughout all the vineyards in the late Winter and early Spring in the valley.  Its a stormy day and the ...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2001
40 x 13 inches (101.6 x 33.0 cm)
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Steven Gordon; Vineyard Persimmon, 2000, Original Giclee Reproduction, 31 x 21 inches. Artwork description: 241 Limited Edition Print from an original Pastel Painting The piece is based on a view of an old persimmon tree on the edge of a Napa Valley vineyard just after harvest.  The sun has set behind the western hills in Rutherford and the warm light still bathes ...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2000
31 x 21 inches (78.7 x 53.3 cm)
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Steven Gordon; My Napa Garden, 2002, Original Giclee Reproduction, 21 x 14 inches. Artwork description: 241 Limited Edition Print from an original Pastel Painting This view of my garden at our home in Napa Valley is done with a more impressionistic and relatively new technique combining oil and soft pastel which creates a spontaneous feel and allows for a more vibrant approach to ...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2002
21 x 14 inches (53.3 x 35.6 cm)
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Steven Gordon; Stanly Lane, 2003, Original Giclee Reproduction, 19 x 31 inches. Artwork description: 241 This limited edition Giclee print is based on an original pastel painting is a view of a well known area in The Napa Valley.  The iconic long row of giant eucalyptus trees, on a road called Stanly Lane, sits majestically at the edge of the valley, bordering ...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2003
19 x 31 inches (48.3 x 78.7 cm)
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Steven Gordon; Carneros Light, 2000, Original Giclee Reproduction, 31 x 21 inches. Artwork description: 241 Limited Edition Print from an original pastel painting A view of a Summer sunset across the San Francisco Bay from the Carneros wine growing district in the Southern region of Napa Valley, California.  Mt.  Tamalpais in Marin County is seen in the distance. ...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2000
31 x 21 inches (78.7 x 53.3 cm)
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Steven Gordon; The Big Eucalyptus, 2000, Original Giclee Reproduction, 31 x 21 inches. Artwork description: 241 Limited Edition Print from an original pastel paintingThe revered white ghost eucalyptus tree on Highway 29 - the main road through the Napa Valley wine country.  Late afternoon violet light through the hazy atmosphere.  Heading South from Yountville...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2000
31 x 21 inches (78.7 x 53.3 cm)
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Steven Gordon; Autumn From Auberge, 2001, Original Giclee Reproduction, 40 x 14 inches. Artwork description: 241 Limited Edition Print from an original pastel painting An Autumn view from the inn Auberge du Soleil in Rutherford, Napa Valley - toward the hills of Yountville in the distance. ...
Steven Gordon
Original Giclee Reproduction, 2001
40 x 14 inches (101.6 x 35.6 cm)
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Artist Statement

Light is the quintessential component in Steven Gordons powerfully luminous landscapes of California. They derive their strength from the artists intimate dialogue with land and light At times I feel as if Im painting with light. Its exciting to take something so completely ephemeral and control and create with it. Since his arrival in California from the Midwest Gordon has been focusing on the visual impact of changing light effects in the Napa Valley wine growing region of California. Continuously exploring and formulating new visions, he has been producing pastel and oil paintings of rare immediacy.

Steven Gordon grew up in his native town of Waukegan, Illinois. After having been self-taught in his early years, he decided on formal training in the arts. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelors degree in art. For his masters program, he chose Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri where he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in painting.

After graduate school Steven Gordon came west to settle in the Napa Valley. He secured a job with a local winery in Yountville which turned out to be a fruitful relationship since Gordon was given an annual showing of his works at the winery visitors center. It also enabled the artist and his wife to travel annually to Europe to study various museum and gallery collections.

Certain insights might have been gained during these travels, but it was the unique character of Californias landscapes and Gordons predilection for pastels that made him find his own imagery. He painted exclusively in oils during his earlier years, doing his preliminary works in pastels They became more and more exciting to me. I discovered the immediate sensory qualities of pastel. ... My paintings are translations of the lyrical, real and abstract qualities which I observe in the unending variety of shapes, colors and textures found in the landscape. They are recreations of a specific moment in time in which light, atmosphere, earth and sky come together in celebration of the simple and profound beauty in nature. I want the viewer to literally feel the experience the bright dryness of a summer afternoon ... the private intimacy of driving alone on a rain-slicked road or of standing in the hills above a valley vista on a foggy winter morning. His visions of California never fail to do just that they totally engage the viewer.

Steven Gordons works have been shown in galleries from the Napa Valley and San Francisco to New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The artists work has also been shown at the Members Galleries of the Philadelphia and Delaware Art Museums, and of the Albright-Knox Museum in Buffalo, New York and is represented in numerous collections worldwide.


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