Don Eddy

the long version

"This monograph surveys the career of a leading American realist painter, covering nearly four decades of work. Author Donald Kuspit calls Eddy a spiritual realist, a metaphysician, acknowledging the work's peculiar mysteriousness, its enigmatic intensity. Kuspit traces the artist's evolution from the Super Realist auto bumpers and showrooms and shop windows of the early 1970s; through the technically dazzling paintings of dime-store toys, trinkets, pots and pans, and silverware on glass shelves of the later 1970s (row after row of America's material riches); through the hallucinatory works of the 1980s that introduce human presence and natural phenomena into the artist's repertoire; to the spiritual works of the 1990s, many in triptych format, that portray scenes and objects from nature, indeed seem to revel in nature, often captured in out-of-the-way places associated with spiritual reality."--Jacket.