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Leonard Koscianski

The Sunday Painter by Leonard Koscianski: Small houses and a sailboat sit within a green coastal landscape crossed by long shadows and bands of white cloud, beneath towering clouds and a blue sky.
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Paintings of imagined neighborhoods and landscapes

Leonard Koscianski's paintings look across villages, shorelines and neighborhoods from strikingly elevated viewpoints. Red roofs, rounded trees, glowing windows and winding paths become a stage for small figures, birds and changing skies. Explore the works presented by J. Willott Gallery in Palm Desert, from intimate nighttime scenes to landscapes shaped by expansive clouds and light.

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Collecting and viewing

Look for the relationship between the broad landscape and the small event within it: a cyclist, a swimmer or a lighted doorway can become the center of the scene. Available works and selected sold examples are identified below. Ask the gallery about current inventory and the details of a specific painting.

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Available works 4 selected

Isolation by Leonard Koscianski: A lone figure stands in the glowing doorway of a house at night, casting a long shadow across a green lawn with small dark animals beneath a starry sky.
Isolation
Oil on Canvas
42x26
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The Midnight Hour by Leonard Koscianski: A bright blue swimming pool with a swimmer lies beside a house with yellow-lit windows and doorway, framed by dark leaves and orange fruit at night.
The Midnight Hour
Oil on Canvas
42x26
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Vespers by Leonard Koscianski: A green bird spreads vivid blue wings among dark green leaves and orange fruit, with a yellow-lit doorway and a small blue pool visible through the foliage.
Vespers
Oil on Canvas
42x26
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The Thick of It by Leonard Koscianski: A pale spotted big cat with bared teeth crouches amid a dense network of dark reddish branches, its body strongly lit against the black background.
The Thick of It
Oil on Canvas
46x64
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Selected sold works

The Sunday Painter by Leonard Koscianski: Small houses and a sailboat sit within a green coastal landscape crossed by long shadows and bands of white cloud, beneath towering clouds and a blue sky.
The Sunday Painter
Oil on Canvas
26x42
Sold
Birds of a Feather by Leonard Koscianski: Dark birds gather on a red roof above a winding village road, with a church, trees, distant water and a crescent moon beneath scattered clouds.
Birds of a Feather
Oil on Canvas
42 x 26 in
Sold
Suburban Landscape with Jackson Pollock Painting by Leonard Koscianski: Purple-blue houses with glowing yellow doors and windows sit among rounded trees under a full moon, casting bright geometric light across a winding path.
Suburban Landscape with Jackson Pollock Painting
Oil on Canvas
42x26
Sold
Stormy Days by Leonard Koscianski: Towering gray-white clouds and sweeping pale bands cross a green lakeside village, with small dark airborne shapes and a cyclist on a curving foreground road.
Stormy Days
Oil on Canvas
42x26
Sold
The Food of Love by Leonard Koscianski: A white sailboat crosses bright blue water seen between a dark brick building and a blue-green church with yellow-lit windows.
The Food of Love
Oil on Canvas
42x26
Sold
Storming in by Leonard Koscianski: A sailboat leans across choppy green-blue water beneath towering gray-white clouds, with more boats, pale birds and a village along the distant shoreline.
Storming in
Oil on Canvas
42x26
Sold
The Man Cave by Leonard Koscianski: A figure stands before an open, brightly lit garage in a blue nighttime neighborhood, casting a long shadow across the driveway beneath a pale moon.
The Man Cave
Oil on Canvas
42x26
Sold
The Witching Hour by Leonard Koscianski: A figure stands in a yellow-lit doorway beside a blue swimming pool with a swimmer, framed by dense dark leaves and orange fruit at night.
The Witching Hour
Oil on Canvas
42x26
Sold
The Cyclist, 6am by Leonard Koscianski: An overhead view shows a cyclist on a curving gray road around pale houses with red roofs, surrounded by green lawns, trees and a distant church.
The Cyclist, 6am
Oil on Canvas
Sold
Nocturne in Blue by Leonard Koscianski: A blue-toned snowy village with a tall church spire and bare trees is lit by yellow windows and a bright doorway, with pale birds crossing the foreground.
Nocturne in Blue
Oil on Canvas
42x26
Sold
Anticipation by Leonard Koscianski: A runner follows a curving path beside a lake under a full moon, seen past a close brick building with warmly lit windows.
Anticipation
Oil on Canvas
42x26
Sold
Saturday Morning by Leonard Koscianski: Two blue birds fly above a green village landscape, with a nest holding pale eggs in the foreground branches and a small pond below.
Saturday Morning
Oil on Canvas
42x26
Sold
The New Day by Leonard Koscianski: Blue-green houses and rounded trees surround a church and lakeside paths, with glowing windows beneath a purple and pink horizon.
The New Day
Oil on Canvas
42x26
Sold
The Skaters by Leonard Koscianski: Small skaters cross a blue-green frozen pond among bare trees, with rows of blue houses, yellow-lit windows and a car beneath a round moon.
The Skaters
Oil on Canvas
26x42
Sold
To the Lighthouse by Leonard Koscianski: A red-and-cream striped lighthouse stands beside a winding shoreline path and small red-roofed houses, with rowboats, pale birds and a crescent moon in the scene.
To the Lighthouse
Oil on Canvas
42x26
Sold
Summer in the City by Leonard Koscianski: Swimmers and sunbathers gather around a long rectangular blue pool, surrounded by pale red-roofed buildings and a village stretching beneath a dark blue sky.
Summer in the City
Oil on Canvas
42x26
Sold
The Fisherman by Leonard Koscianski: A small figure stands on a wooden lakeside dock beside a rowboat, with rounded trees, red-roofed houses and a crescent moon beyond.
The Fisherman
Oil on Canvas
42x26
Sold
Summer Morning by Leonard Koscianski: A tall church spire rises above dense green trees and small red-roofed houses, with a bright yellow-lit window casting a long pattern across the foreground.
Summer Morning
Oil on Canvas
42x26
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Her Morning Run by Leonard Koscianski: A lone runner follows a winding path through a green village of red-roofed houses and rounded trees, with a church, distant water and a pale moon.
Her Morning Run
Oil on Canvas
42x26
Sold
Blue Morning by Leonard Koscianski: A pale church steeple rises among blue-green trees and purple-roofed houses beneath a crescent moon, while a bright doorway casts light toward a small foreground figure.
Blue Morning
Oil on Canvas
42x26
Sold
The Bicyclist by Leonard Koscianski: A cyclist follows a gray road below a row of pale houses with brilliant red roofs, with long shadows crossing the green hillside.
The Bicyclist
Oil on Canvas
Sold
The Runner, 5am by Leonard Koscianski: A runner and a long shadow cross a pale curving road beside red-roofed houses, with dark green hills, a church and a small sailboat in the distance.
The Runner, 5am
Oil on Canvas
24x42
Sold

Leonard Koscianski was born in Cleveland, Ohio. A student of R. Buckminster Fuller, and noted American painter Wayne Theibaud, he received his Bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art and his Master’s degree from the University of California, Davis.

His artwork is to be found in many public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum, and the Chicago Art Institute. It has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Art News, Art Forum, and Art in America.

He has received numerous awards including the National Endowment for the Art’s Individual Artist Fellowship, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Fellowship. He lives and works in Annapolis, Maryland.

Museum Collections:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia.
The Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaulkee, Wisconsin.
The Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California.
The Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
The Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, Alabama
The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
The Arnot Museum of Art, Oswego, New York
The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia.
University Art Museum. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
The Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
C.N. Gorman Museum, Davis California.