Lake Placid, NY
Lake Placid's murals reflect the Adirondack resort town's dual identity as an Olympic sports mecca and a gateway to one of America's great wilderness preserves. Main Street's 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics heritage is woven into works celebrating winter athleticism, while the surrounding High Peaks landscape — the Adirondack Park's six million acres of protected wilderness — provides the natural subject matter for the town's most ambitious outdoor paintings.
Featured Artists
All artists →Richard Nattress
Lake Placid-based painter whose large-scale works translate the Adirondack landscape's dramatic light and color — the alpenglow on Whiteface Mountain, the silver surface of Mirror Lake at dawn — into building-scale paintings that rival the Romantic tradition of Hudson River School painting from which they descend.
Jason Botkin
Montreal-based muralist whose sports figure portraits capture athletic motion at wall scale. His "Miracle on Ice" mural on Saranac Avenue commemorates the 1980 US Olympic hockey team's upset victory over the Soviet Union — painted in the arena town where that miracle happened, forty years after the event.