4/20/2006
C.W. Mundy
If you go
WHAT: Charles Warren Mundy, American Impressionist.
WHEN: April 20 through May 28.
WHERE: Columbus Museum of Art and Design, The Commons Centre.
HOURS: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday trough Saturday and 12 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
EXHIBIT: 25 works of in-studio still-lifes and on-location pieces in Florida, France and Indiana.
INFORMATION: cmadart. org.
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Indianapolis artist paints the world
By Kelsey VanArsdall
Reporter
He has painted on location in France, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands.
He has captured bay scenes, river bends, even the world-famous Louvre Museum.
Today, Indianapolis resident Charles Warren Mundy's impressionist art comes to Columbus in a month-long exhibit at Columbus Museum of Art and Design.
Art has been a part of Mundy's life since childhood.
"I used to sit on my dad's lap and watch him doodle," he said.
"Like most young boys I wanted to mimic him so I started doing doodles on my own and that was the beginning when I was about 3 or 4 years old."
The down-to-earth impressionist spoke eagerly from his Indianapolis home about the April/May exhibit.
"I've been working since the winter, through the early spring," he said.
"I'm really excited about the beach scenes in Santa Bell Island."
Mundy, 60, said he took his family to Florida for a few photo shoots, from which he created the works.
"I love painting live, on-location scenes, but when you've got grandchildren running around, it's (easier) to get a photo than to try to keep (them) still," he said. 
Mundy said he usually spends November to April in his studio painting figuratives and still lifes. From April through October he recharges his creative battery on location.
The 25-piece exhibit in Columbus also includes some landscape scenes from Mud Creek in Metamora and Amish life in Shipshewana.
"Most of what I paint comes from life," he said.
The presentation runs through May 28.
"This exhibition reveals Mundy's maturing talent, an impressionistic style characterized by high-key colors applied with dynamic brushwork and an energetic manipulation of the palette knife," said Pica Saddler, marketing director of the Columbus Museum of Art and Design.
"Unique to his visit to the Columbus Museum of Art and Design will be a painting called "La Seine, Paris."
"This is the largest painting on canvas he has done to date."
Mundy's work also will be available to purchase, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the museum.
The exhibit is free and open to the public.
