Landscape painter Daniel Morper has earned acclaim for his naturalistic, light-saturated images of such diverse scenes as views upward into the skies above Manhattan, scenic panoramas of the badlands and canyons of the American West, and nostalgic paintings of rural landscapes and townscapes. “Morper rewards looking,” so says well-known art critic and historian Peter Frank. “Morper has a knack for finding the spectacular in the mundane, emphasizing, but not exaggerating, the skew of a vantage, the force and weight of a horizon, the surprise and poignancy of an object silhouetted against a sky.” By combining a pre-modernist regard for the meaning of nature with a modernist’s search for elemental vision and post-modern exactitude, Morper has, in Peter Frank’s view, “helped to bring about a veritable renaissance in American landscape painting.” Another critic has noted, “Morper’s style borders the edge of photorealism but is filled with metaphor: stunning Southwest light and enough painterly touches to remind viewers that they are looking at hand-painted expressive illusions and not imitations of photography.” Born in Fort Benning, Georgia, Morper earned his BA at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and later studied at the Corcoran Museum School of Art in Washington, DC. He received a law degree from Columbia University in New York and practiced law before devoting himself full-time to painting. He lived and worked in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and was married to the artist Carol Mothner. His evocative landscapes have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and are represented in many prominent public and private collections. Notable among the museums holding his work are the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Philbrook Museum of Art, and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.