'Rural Church in Davidson OK,' by John Wolfe, Acrylic on Panel Painting

This 30" x 24" acrylic on panel painting from 2013 by John Wolf depicts a rural church in Davidson, Oklahoma. Wolfe's depiction focuses on the profile of the stark white church against a stark blue sky. The side angle of the one story view features three windows underneath a gabled roof. Above the church is an an expansive cloudless cobalt blue sky.

John Wolfe was born in Vernon, Texas, in 1947. He attended public school in Davidson, Oklahoma, and graduated from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 1970 with a degree in Art Education. He completed his M.Ed. at the University of Central Oklahoma in 1976. John taught art in the Midwest City-Del City School System for 35 years and was an adjunct art faculty at Rose State College 1978-1981, and Adams State University in Alamosa, Colorado 2004-2014. John’s work has been exhibited extensively across Oklahoma and the surrounding region at venues including the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, the Oklahoma State Capitol, the Hot Springs National Park Sculpture Invitational and the National Weather Center Biennale. Since his retirement from teaching in 2005 to the present he is a full time studio artist. John divides his time in the studio between painting and sculpture. The most recent series of acrylic paintings were architectural in nature and currently the focus is a new group of figurative mixed-media sculptures.