Sheila Wood Langlois, a well-known watercolor artist of the landscapes of the American West, died May 31, 2013, at the Colorado Medical Center in Aurora.
She suffered from an inoperable cancer of the colon, complicated by a paralyzing neurological disease called the Ghislain-Barre Syndrome.
Born in Manhasset, N.Y., she attended schools there and in New York City (Brearley). From her earliest childhood, she showed a precocious artistic talent. At Harvard, she majored in French, with an official minor in economics, a subject which had also begun to interest her greatly. She spent a very rewarding junior year in Paris, studying the French language and culture at the Sorbonne. Later, she returned to France for graduate work in French painting and connoisseurship at the prestigious Ecole du Louvre.
After her marriage to an American professor of French literature, she and the family moved to Lexington, Ken. There, she began to paint again under the tutelage of the famous American watercolorist Robert James Foose. She soon discovered a deep affinity for that painting medium because it was able to convey very well some of the subtle values that she saw in landscapes of the American West. When the family moved to Wyoming in the early 1970s, she was absolutely dazzled by the Teton-Yellowstone landscapes, which quickly became the focus of her work. Encouraged by the increasing success of her pictures, she opened her gallery at 50 Kung St., just off the Jackson town square, where she remained for nearly 30 years.
Later, she organized several other art-related ventures under the name Tetonwood Enterprises, but her watercolors always remained her central interest.
In her very renderings of the "Wonders of Wyoming," (as she called them) she sought to capture not only their majestic beauty, but also a certain spiritual meaning conveyed by the Grand Teton or the massive power of Mount Moran — or even a single lone aspen anchoring a wintery solitude of snow.
Such works of hers are to be found in public and private collections in the United States and Europe.
© Laramie Boomerang December 8, 2013
She suffered from an inoperable cancer of the colon, complicated by a paralyzing neurological disease called the Ghislain-Barre Syndrome.
Born in Manhasset, N.Y., she attended schools there and in New York City (Brearley). From her earliest childhood, she showed a precocious artistic talent. At Harvard, she majored in French, with an official minor in economics, a subject which had also begun to interest her greatly. She spent a very rewarding junior year in Paris, studying the French language and culture at the Sorbonne. Later, she returned to France for graduate work in French painting and connoisseurship at the prestigious Ecole du Louvre.
After her marriage to an American professor of French literature, she and the family moved to Lexington, Ken. There, she began to paint again under the tutelage of the famous American watercolorist Robert James Foose. She soon discovered a deep affinity for that painting medium because it was able to convey very well some of the subtle values that she saw in landscapes of the American West. When the family moved to Wyoming in the early 1970s, she was absolutely dazzled by the Teton-Yellowstone landscapes, which quickly became the focus of her work. Encouraged by the increasing success of her pictures, she opened her gallery at 50 Kung St., just off the Jackson town square, where she remained for nearly 30 years.
Later, she organized several other art-related ventures under the name Tetonwood Enterprises, but her watercolors always remained her central interest.
In her very renderings of the "Wonders of Wyoming," (as she called them) she sought to capture not only their majestic beauty, but also a certain spiritual meaning conveyed by the Grand Teton or the massive power of Mount Moran — or even a single lone aspen anchoring a wintery solitude of snow.
Such works of hers are to be found in public and private collections in the United States and Europe.
© Laramie Boomerang December 8, 2013
Sheila Wood Langlois, a well-known watercolor artist of the landscapes of the American West, died May 31, 2013, at the Colorado Medical Center in Aurora.
She suffered from an inoperable cancer of the colon, complicated by a paralyzing neurological disease called the Ghislain-Barre Syndrome.
Born in Manhasset, N.Y., she attended schools there and in New York City (Brearley). From her earliest childhood, she showed a precocious artistic talent. At Harvard, she majored in French, with an official minor in economics, a subject which had also begun to interest her greatly. She spent a very rewarding junior year in Paris, studying the French language and culture at the Sorbonne. Later, she returned to France for graduate work in French painting and connoisseurship at the prestigious Ecole du Louvre.
After her marriage to an American professor of French literature, she and the family moved to Lexington, Ken. There, she began to paint again under the tutelage of the famous American watercolorist Robert James Foose. She soon discovered a deep affinity for that painting medium because it was able to convey very well some of the subtle values that she saw in landscapes of the American West. When the family moved to Wyoming in the early 1970s, she was absolutely dazzled by the Teton-Yellowstone landscapes, which quickly became the focus of her work. Encouraged by the increasing success of her pictures, she opened her gallery at 50 Kung St., just off the Jackson town square, where she remained for nearly 30 years.
Later, she organized several other art-related ventures under the name Tetonwood Enterprises, but her watercolors always remained her central interest.
In her very renderings of the "Wonders of Wyoming," (as she called them) she sought to capture not only their majestic beauty, but also a certain spiritual meaning conveyed by the Grand Teton or the massive power of Mount Moran — or even a single lone aspen anchoring a wintery solitude of snow.
Such works of hers are to be found in public and private collections in the United States and Europe.
© Laramie Boomerang December 8, 2013
She suffered from an inoperable cancer of the colon, complicated by a paralyzing neurological disease called the Ghislain-Barre Syndrome.
Born in Manhasset, N.Y., she attended schools there and in New York City (Brearley). From her earliest childhood, she showed a precocious artistic talent. At Harvard, she majored in French, with an official minor in economics, a subject which had also begun to interest her greatly. She spent a very rewarding junior year in Paris, studying the French language and culture at the Sorbonne. Later, she returned to France for graduate work in French painting and connoisseurship at the prestigious Ecole du Louvre.
After her marriage to an American professor of French literature, she and the family moved to Lexington, Ken. There, she began to paint again under the tutelage of the famous American watercolorist Robert James Foose. She soon discovered a deep affinity for that painting medium because it was able to convey very well some of the subtle values that she saw in landscapes of the American West. When the family moved to Wyoming in the early 1970s, she was absolutely dazzled by the Teton-Yellowstone landscapes, which quickly became the focus of her work. Encouraged by the increasing success of her pictures, she opened her gallery at 50 Kung St., just off the Jackson town square, where she remained for nearly 30 years.
Later, she organized several other art-related ventures under the name Tetonwood Enterprises, but her watercolors always remained her central interest.
In her very renderings of the "Wonders of Wyoming," (as she called them) she sought to capture not only their majestic beauty, but also a certain spiritual meaning conveyed by the Grand Teton or the massive power of Mount Moran — or even a single lone aspen anchoring a wintery solitude of snow.
Such works of hers are to be found in public and private collections in the United States and Europe.
© Laramie Boomerang December 8, 2013
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