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Bob Nugent in his studio, Photo credit Carol Farrow

“Nugent’s originality is clearly inseparable from his intense engagement with “original” nature. He tracks it in all its moods, dramatic and subdued, making abstract images that seem lyric and epic at once, like unspoiled nature. A master of nuance–his watercolors make this transparently clear–Nugent refines raw nature into iconic presence.” Donald Kuspit, Dec. 2006 from his essay Abstract Romantic: Bob Nugent’s Works On Paper