Pekka Halonen

Metsäpäällikkö Tauno Tiainen, Lahti; siirtynyt perintönä samassa perheessä.

"Pekka Halonen", Helsingin Taidetalo, 15.3.-10.5.1981.
"Pekka Halonen", Ateneumin Taidemuseo, 7.3.-24.8.2008
"Talonpojista taiteilijoiksi", Halosenniemen museo, 2.5.-2.9.2018.
"Metsän siimeksessä", Halosenniemen museo, 15.9.–29.11.2020
"Suomen valtion stipendiaatteja, kippis siis! - Väinö Blomstedt Pekka Halosen vieraana", Halosenniemen museo, 3.5.–29.8.2021
"Taiteilijaelämää Halosenniemessä", Halosenniemen museo, 8.3.–28.8.2022
"Soiva Halosenniemi", Halosenniemen museo, 11.10.2022–15.1.2023
"Odotettavissa vaihtelevaa säätä - naistaiteilijoita Pekka Halosen vieraina", Halosenniemen museo, 4.5.–27.8.2023
"Miljoonamänty - maisemamaalauksia Pekka Haloselta ja aikalaisilta", Halosennimen museo, 3.5.–15.9.2024
"Taiteilijakodin juhlaa ja arkea", Halosenniemen museo, 24.9.2024–21.4.2025

Aune Lindström, "Pekka Halonen-Elämä ja teokset", WSOY 1957, nro. 411. Kuvattuna s.203.
"Pekka Halonen", Ateneumin julkaisut nro 52, 2008, nr. 273. Kuvattuna s.264.

The artist Pekka Halonen is closely associated with Finnish art, known for his realistic and simple depictions of the Finnish people and nature. Halonen was born in 1865 in Lapinlahti and belonged to a large farming family with several talented artists and musicians as relatives. In 1890, he received a scholarship that enabled him to travel to Paris and study at the Académie Julian. Halonen then continued his studies under Paul Gauguin at the Académie Colarossi in Italy. Like several contemporary Finnish artists, such as Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Halonen eventually returned to his homeland to explore themes in the Finnish wilderness.

Early in his career, Halonen primarily worked in the French Impressionist style, but later his painting evolved into a more monumental approach with subdued colors, often depicting themes from Finnish rural life like 'Road Builders in Karelia' (1900). Colors dominated Halonen's work; he was a virtuoso colorist. The Finnish nature held a central role in Halonen's art, and in his numerous landscape paintings, one can also discern clear influences from symbolism and japonism.