Artist Statement:
Known for his watercolors and
colorful abstract acrylics,
Bud has always loved art,
artists, and their
contributions to culture but
has been working at it for
only about 3 years. In 2004,
at the age of fifty-three,
Cassiday turned to art. "I’d
always wanted to be an artist
–so after ending a long time
career as a union organizer, I
started painting day after day
and night after night. A
thousand paintings later, I’m
still discovering creativity
in myself that I thought I
had, but needed to dig down
to, reveal, and express."
On the American scene, I am
constantly amazed and
influenced by well known
artists including Mary
Cassatt, John Singer Sargent,
Childe Hassam, Maurice
Prendergast, Robert Henri,
Hans Hofmann, Edward Hopper,
Charles Demuth, Georgia
O’Keefe, Charles Burchfield,
Grant Wood, Stuart Davis, Mark
Rothko, Willem De Koonig,
Arshile Gorky, Lee Krasner,
Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock,
Grace Hartigan, Roy
Lichtenstein, Robert
Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol,
Jasper Johns, Frank Stella,
David Hockney, and many
currently working artists not
so well known. On the
European side, I am influenced
by the modern greats: Matisse,
Picasso, Macke, Kandinsky,
Cezanne, Roualt, Van Gogh, the
Fauvists, the Impressionists,
the Expressionists, and
many...
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