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Leonard Wren

Leonard Wren (Born 1940) is active/lives in Oklahoma, Washington.  Leonard Wren is known for Landscape-street-floral and animal painting.

The subjects in Leonard Wren's paintings-swans at rest, ordered gardens, bright riots of wildflowers-lead you to believe that the Tulsa, Oklahoma painter spends most of his time peacefully surveying idyllic, nonexistent places.  But in fact, it's the everyday world that provides Wren with inspiration.  "I have nothing in mind when I go out to paint," he says, adding, "it's enjoyable just to load up the van with my artist's box and drive around looking for paintings."

Wren refers to himself as an "American Impressionist" and shrugs off those who criticize the style as trite. "There's a lot of bad impressionism out there, paintings that are too sweet, like greeting-card art.  I believe a painting should be beautiful.  Not necessarily pretty, but beautiful."  He considers the style's accessibility and popularity a plus. "Impressionism is like the blues," Wren says.  "It's so basic that it touches you profoundly."

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