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Jonathan A. Scoville, a landscape painter,
died on Friday at the Geer Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Canaan,
Conn. He was 58 years old and lived in West Cornwall, Conn.
The cause was pneumonia following a long illness and surgery, his family said.
Mr.
Scoville, a descendant of Samuel F. B. Morse, was born in Manhattan and
grew up in New York City, New Haven and Cornwall. He graduated from the
Browning School in Manhattan and studied art at New York University and
the Art Students League. His first solo show was at the Institute of
Contemporary Art in Boston in 1971. His last show, a retrospective, was
held in SoHo in 1995 at the Condeso-Lawler Gallery, which had
represented his work since 1981.
Often large and somewhat
foreboding, Mr. Scoville’s turbulent landscape images were more
visionary than realistic. They sometimes emphasized mysterious expanses
of sky that seemed to show the forces of nature at work. Other more
expressionistic works featured mountains with small tormented figures
almost hidden in the layers of paint and seemed to suggest the earth as
a living thing mistreated by humans.
Mr. Scoville was a winner
of several fellowships and grants, including three from the MacDowell
Colony. His work is represented in collections of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art in Washington and
the Butler Institute in Youngstown, Ohio.
He is survived by his
mother, Laura Richardson Scoville of North Bennington, Vt., and two
sisters, Virginia Scoville Sandy, also of North Bennington, and Sally
Scoville of West Cornwall.
Correction: October 22, 1996, Tuesday
An
obituary yesterday about the landscape painter Jonathan Scoville, who
died on Friday at the age of 58, partially misstated the cause of
death. It was indeed pneumonia after a long illness, but no surgery was
involved.
(see this obit on The New York Times’ web site)
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