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Spotlight on the Maine Coast
Gallery reception: Friday, July 16th 5-7 pm
Exhibited July 1 to August 15, 2009
"Few if any external influences have made themselves more potently felt in American art than the geographic one exhibited by the coast of Maine. There is something characteristically American typified by these rugged, rocky shores, which has been the inspiration of some of our greatest and most truly national paintings."
- Art Historian, Ralph Carey
Paul Bernard King, N.A. (1867-1947)
Monhegan Island Harbor
25 x 30 Oil (relined),Antique carved frame 31 x 36
Price available upon request
Versatility, artistic maturity and mastery of technique and medium are hallmarks of Paul King's art. His diverse works of portraits, landscapes, rural scenes and illustrations establish his reputation in the first quarter of the century.
From 1906, when his oil painting "Hauling in the Anchor Line" (date and location unknown) captured the Salmagundi Club's top two prizes, King regularly received recognition. His merit was freely acknowledged by his artist peers, as well as by the critics and the public.
King was born in 1867 to a Buffalo, New York goldsmith. Apprenticed there to a lithography firm, he became an accomplished printer. King later studied at the Art Students League of Buffalo and, from 1901 to 1904, at the New York Art Students League with Henry S. Mowbray. While a student, he was an illustrator for "Life" and "Harper's" magazines. From 1905 to 1906, King studied in Holland with Willy Sluiter, Evert Pieters and Bernard Bloomers.
He was a board member of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, serving as vice president and acting president, from 1908 to 1921. In 1921, he moved from his long-time home in Germantown section of Philadelphia to Stony Brook, Long Island, where he died in 1947.
Memberships: Allied Artists,America Federation of Arts, Artists Aid Society, Artists Fund Society, International Society of Arts and Letters, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Art Club, Salmagundi Club
Public Collections:Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Reading Museum, Pennsylvania; Los Angeles Museum; Houston Art Museum; New Pantheon, Nashville, Tennessee. (From "American Art Analog").
Biography from Roughton Galleries,Inc
William Lester Stevens, NA (1888-1969)
Deer Isle, Maine
Signed "W. LESTER STEVENS N.A." l.r.
Watercolor 20 x 27 in.
Matted and Framed, Condition: excellent
$2400
Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, Stevens spent four years at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts School, where he studied under Edmund Tarbell, among others. Primarily an oil painter, he also used watercolor and acrylics. He is best known for his post-impressionistic landscapes. Throughout the course of his long career, Stevens taught, first in Rockport, then at Boston University (1925-1926) and Princeton (1927-1929), and during the Depression at Grand Manan.
He was a National Academician and a member of the American Watercolor Society; a founding member of the Rockport Art Association; Springfield, MA Art League; Guild of Boston Artists; Gallery on Moors; New Haven Paint and Clay Club, CT; Gloucester Society of Art; North Shore Art Association; Boston Watercolor Club and the New York Watercolor Club. He won art awards at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC; American Watercolor Society; New Haven Paint and Clay Club; Springfield Art League; Salons of America; Washington Watercolor Club; North Shore AA; Rockport AA and more. He painted USPO murals in Dedham and Rockport, MA, the Boston City Hall, the Louisville, KY Art Museum and several schools in Boston. References: Movalli, Charles, American Artist (April 1986); Who’s Who in American Art (1947); Who Was Who in American Art (vol. 3, p. 3171-72).
William Lester Stevens (1888-1969)
Harbor at Vinalhaven, Maine
Signed "W. LESTER STEVENS N.A." l.r.
Watercolor 15 x 22 in.
$2400
Harrison Bird Brown (1831-1915)
View of Grand Manan
Oil on Canvas 10x18
$5500 Framed
Harrison Bird Brown was born in 1831 in Portland, Maine, and is best known for his White Mountain landscapes and marine paintings of Maine's Casco Bay. By 1860, Brown was being praised as a leading American marine painter. Brown was one of the early artists to paint the coastline of Maine's Monhegan Island, where he depicted the headlands as awesome, mystical forces. Humanity versus nature, and the human relationship to nature, themes prevalent in mid and late-19th century literature and philosophy, figured frequently in his seascapes.
The coast of Maine was a favorite painting venue of Brown's for over thirty years. He depicted the wholesome outdoor environment of the state, with special fondness for the Casco Bay area and Grand Manan, an island off the New Brunswick, Canada coast. Brown also produced two widely distributed illustrations of Crawford Notch for the Maine Central Railroad in 1890.
Harrison Bird Brown exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York from 1858 to 1860, and at the Boston Athenaeum and Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. By 1892 he had become the best known native Maine painter of his time, and gained fame for himself and the state with a large canvas in the Maine pavilion of the 1893 World's Colombian Exposition in Chicago. In 1892 he was elected president of the Portland Society of Art.
George H. Drew (b. 1833)
Along the Maine Coast, (c. 1880)
12" x 21" Oil/Canvas
$4200
The son of marine painter Clement Drew, George Drew and his father had a gallery in Boston in the 19th century.
Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837-1908)
Figure in a Boat Near Shore
Monogrammed l.r., labels from Barridoff Galleries, Portland,
Watercolor and gouache en grisaille on paper,
sight size 2 3/8 x 6 in. framed
$2800
An Associate of the National Academy, Alfred Thompson Bricher was known especially for his serene, luminist seascapes, reminscent of works by Fitz Hugh Lane and Martin Johnson Heade. Born April 10,1837, Portsmouth, NH, Bricher grew up in Newburyport, MA. Largely self-taught, Bricher studied art at Lowell Institute, Boston in the 1850's. In the 1860s he followed his contemporaries to the White Mountains, and was active in Boston and Newburyport, MA until 1868 when he moved to New York. He executed his best work during the 1870s-80s when he spent many summers painting on the coasts of Massachusetts, Maine (Monhegan Island), and Rhode Island (1871-76), as well on Long Island, especially at Southampton.
Bricher was a significant second-generation Hudson River School landscapist and marine painter who is considered to be the last of the relevant American luminists. He is best known for his marine paintings depicting New England shorelines, in which crashing waves show the dynamic forces of nature.With ease and finesse he captured the natural ambiance around the ocean and its coasts and the artist’s reverence for the presence of what is before him is apparent.
Today A.T. Bricher is considered one of the finest marine painters of his era, and his work is in great demand because each of his canvases and watercolors show resplendently and with confident brushwork how nature looked during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Sunset, Monhegan
Jay Hall Connaway (1893-1970)
Signed "Connaway" l.r., titled reverse.
Oil on board, 24 x 29 in.
$6000
Born in Liberty, Indiana, Jay Hall Connaway was fascinated by coastal life and marine scenery, an attraction that had profound effects on his life and artwork. After periodically studying at the Art Institute of Indianapolis and at the Art Students League with William Merritt Chase, Connaway traveled throughout the United States.ndertake further study in Paris at the Academie Julian and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Encouraged by Robert Macbeth (Macbeth Gal., NYC) and artists Paul Dougherty, Emil Carlsen, and Frederick Waugh, he spent 1922-25 painting at Head Harbor, ME. From 1929-31 he was painting in Brittany and Paris, sponsored by Macbeth and Milch. Returning in the midst of the Depression, he and his family settled at Monhegan Island, ME year-round from 1931 until 1947. when they moved to Dorset and then Pawlet, VT. A popular landscape painter with robust brushwork, he gave lectures and demonstrations around the country. He ran a summer school at Monhegan until 1947, and at Dorset, VT until 1966. His work was featured in an unprecedented 85 one-man shows, evidence of his successful and widely renowned career as a skilled sea painter.
Bernard Corey (1914-2000)
Coastal Inlet
signed Bernard Corey, l.r., oil on board 10 x 16
Ornate Gold Frame 16 x 22
$3400
Bernard Corey (1914-2000)
Maine Beach
oil on board 7 1⁄4 x 14
signed Bernard Corey, l.l.
$2800
Bernard Corey (1914-2000)
Maine Surf
signed Bernard Corey, l.l.,
oil on board 12x16
Framed in Silver 18 x 22
$3400
Bernard Corey is one of New England's most beloved landscape painters of the 20th century. He executed paintings surely en plein aire with accuracy and competence. Memberships included the Rockport Art Association, Salmagundi Club, the Guild of Boston Artists, North Shore Art Association and more. Having won over 100 awards and honors, including awards at the North Shore Art Association, Rockport Art Association, Salmagundi Club, NYC, Hudson Valley Art Association, Providence Water Color Club, Allied Artists of America and many more. He painted almost every day of his life with fellow artists in the fields, along the streams and beaches and in the mountains in and around New England. Although the artist traveled throughout the world, Paris made little impression on him. He was American through-and-through.
Bernard Corey was the "last of the old school" of traditional New England landscape painters. When he died early in 2000, the era when artists painted for ten hours a day, every day with competency came to an end. Corey's carefully painted impressionistic plein aire canvases captured the essence of nature in all four seasons. The Rockport Art Association gave Corey a retrospective exhibition (October-November 2000) saluting the artist's profound understanding of nature and painting.
Don Stone, N.A.
Back of Knowlton’s
Watercolor 16 x 24, Frame Size: 21 x 28
$3200
Internationally known modern impressionist painter Don Stone has been elected to full membership in the National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor Society, and has been designated as a Dolphin Fellow of the latter group. In addition, Stone is a member of the Allied Artists of America, the Hudson Valley Art Asociation, the Guild of Boston Artists, the Copley Society of Boston, the Rockport Art Association, the North Shore Art Association and a number of smaller regional art associations with whom he has exhibited over the years. He has been exhibited in various public museums, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He has won numerous awards, including two Greenshields Foundation grants.
To view the artistic accomplishments of Don Stone is an arresting experience. Few artists have so successfully mastered so many different paint mediums, and, with each new exploration, presented a fresh means of expression. Working with vigorous, moving watercolor, he captures momentary visual sensations, and an immediacy that is translated into works of stunning accuracy and vitality in the precision of his oils and watercolors. The painterly quality of his oils reinforces the consistency in variety in all his painted responses, and, like his other paintings, they are conspicuous for their sheer visual pleasure.
Don's works are included in the premanent collections of Dartmouth College, Marietta College, the Mobile Art Museum (Mobile, AL), the University of New Hampshire, the Peabody Maritime Museum, the Canton Art Institute (Canton, OH), the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, OH), and Berkshire Community College. He has been featured in several books and publications, including Down East Magazine, Modern Oil Impresionists (Ron Hanson, North Light Books, 1992), and Monhegan, The Artists' Island (Blake, North Light Books, 1992).
Copyright © 1997-2002 Don Stone.
Carl Gordon Cutler (1873-1945)
“Umbrella Pine”
Watercolor on paper, 19.5x 24.5”
Framed 30 x 37
$2400
Carl Gordon Cutler (1873-1945)
“View of Eggemoggin Reach”
Watercolor on paper, 17.5x 24.5”
Framed 30 x 37
$2400
Carl Gordon Cutler was born in 1873 in Massachusetts. Though educated in the painting of portraits in oil, his two major artistic passions would become the landscape of Maine and the use of watercolor. His watercolors, influenced by Fauve color and John Marin's forms, were exhibited in Europe and the eastern United States, in Boston; Philadelphia; the Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, both in New York City; and, farther west, at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; as well as Paris, France. Cutler had more than a dozen one-man shows in New York City and Boston.
Cutler studied in the late 1890s at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where influence of the old masters on the painting of oil portraits was strong. He also worked at the Academie Julian in Paris. Cutler had some exhibition success there, but it would take several years after his return to America before his mature style would appear. Cutler first painted the Maine coast soon after the Armory Show. By the mid-1920s, he was painting watercolors of the state's landscape exclusivelyviews of Deer Isle, Mount Desert, the Camden Hills and--for thirty summers, Eggemoggin Reach, where Cutler had a cottage. The artist received the plaudits of the critics and acclaim from the public. He spent the last 30 years of his career focusing entirely on painting Maine's Penobscot Bay region.
Carl Cutler was a respected color theorist. In his 1923 book Modern Color, with Stephen C. Pepper, he explained a detailed system involving a scale of 168 colors, telling how to imitate the appearance of natural light through their use. He also discussed emotion as a significant element in artistic creation. In 1994, the Vose Gallery, in Boston, put out a color brochure, Carl Gordon Cutler Along the Maine Coast 1873-1945. Also in the 1990s, the Babcock Gallery, in New York City, published Carl Gordon Cutler, American Modernist Rediscovered, a paperback with forty-four color reproductions and an essay. In 1998, the Portland Museum of Art, in Maine, held an exhibition, "Modern Color": Maine Watercolors by Carl Gordon Cutler, comprised of sixteen out of a total of fifty-nine Cutler watercolors bequeathed a year earlier to the Museum by Mr. and Mrs. James E. Haas. Also in 1998, the College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, exhibited fourteen of Cutler's Maine coastal landscapes painted in the South Brooksville area on the Blue Hill Peninsula.
Asa Grant Randall (1869-1948)
"Summer Afternoon at Boothbay"
Oil on canvasboard, 12 x16
$1600
Asa Grant Randall founded the Boothbay Art Colony in Maine in the early 1900's. Randall, from Waterboro, Maine, first visited Boothbay in 1905 and loved the area so much, he was back the following summer, launching what became "The Commonwealth Colony of Art and Industry." Here's how he described the area in a later brochure about his school:
"Boothbay Harbor, the beautiful town by the sea, is the gem of the whole coast. It has been said of this town that nowhere is there a spot with the air more odorous with the scent of the evergreen forest mingled with the clear, bracing salty breath of the ocean. Nowhere can the skies be bluer or the waters clearer. Nowhere is the scenery more beautiful or the surroundings more peaceful."
Stanley Wingate Woodward (American, 1890-1970)
When the Wind Blows West
Oil on Canvas 12 X 16 in.
Stanley Wingate Woodward was a Rockport school painter of marine subjects. He was the author of "Adventures in Marine Painting" and "Marine Painting in Oil and Watercolor" He exhibited widely ( the Penn-sylvania Academy, Corcoran Gallery, National Academy, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, etc.) He was awarded many prizes, National Academy, American Watercolor Society, Baltimore Watercolor Society, Rockport Art Association, North Shore AA, etc. His work is in The Boston Museum, Fort Worth, Univ. of Michigan , Bowdoin College, Amherst College, etc.
Contemporary Artists
Donald Allen Mosher
Quiet Cove
Oil on Canvas 11 x 14
$2200
Donald Mosher grew up on the North Shore and has lived in Rockport since 1980. A descendant of ship builders from Nova Scotia and farmers from Maine, Don is naturally drawn to the power of the sea and the tranquility of the New England countryside. His interest in art began after winning his first award at the age of eight, and he has since won over 200 awards for his work. A 1968 graduate of Vesper George School of Art, where he met his wife Christine, Don has been a painting instructor and demonstrator and has been featured in several national publications including Yankee and American Artist Magazine. His paintings hang in the permanent collections of large corporations, institutions, banks, and private homes throughout the United States and abroad including the Peabody Museum, Portland Art museum, and the State House in Boston.
Donald Allen Mosher
Sailing, Blue Hill Bay
Oil on canvas 1o x 14
$2200
Richard Roflow
Toward Otter Point
Gouache, 12 x16
$1400
Ken Knowles
Winter Harbor
24 x 30 Oil on Linen
$5800
Burnt Cove, Maine
Dennis Poirier
16 x 20 Oil on Canvas
$2600
Dennis Poirier grew up in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He began his studies Butera School of Art in Boston, then returned to Cape Ann to study with John C. Terelak and Ted Goerschner at the newly formed Gloucester Academy of Fine Arts. Later he moved to New York City to study at the Arts Student League winning the Charles J. Romans Memorial Award at his very first national exhibit at the Allied Artists of America Show.
Dennis is a member of many prestigious art associations including the Oil Painters of America, North Shore Arts Association,Rockport Art Association, the Copley Society of Art (a Copley Artist), the Hudson Valley Arts Association, and the Academic Artists Association.
Endless Rhythms
oil on canvas, 12" x 24"
William Marvin
$1400
William Marvin is privileged to be able to capture the ever-changing moods of nature, out in the open, fresh and unspoiled. Bill attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena taking extensive courses in design, drawing, painting and illustration. Upon graduating with honors in 1974 he came to Chicago to begin a challenging career as a graphic designer. Bill started showing his landscapes in 1996 and immediately began to draw attention from collectors. His work embodies dynamic compositions and an impressionistic use of color. The results are paintings that are vibrant with light and energy. He has painted throughout the Midwest and the Southwest, and most recently the Maine Coast and Acadia National Park. Bill’s artwork hangs in private and corporate collections throughout the United States.
Joan Colomer
Coastal Inlet
12x24
$1800
Stonington View
Karen Cashman
9 x 12 Oil on Canvas
$600 Framed
Having grown up in a family of oil painters who spent summers in Maine, Karen continues this tradition by returning to Maine every year. She has painted landscapes and coastal scenes en plein air for over 15 years, accumulating knowledge of nature for work in her studio as well. A Connecticut resident, Karen received her formal education at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts and has participated in workshops with Mike Graves, Chris Magadini, and David Lussier. An Elected Artist member of Lyme Art Association and Kent Art Association, she is also a member of Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society, Deer Isle Artists Association, Housatonic Art League, Society of Creative Artists of Newtown and Washington Art Association.
Bruce Backman Turner (b. 1941)
Monhegan Village
Oil on board. 12 X 16 in.
In 1970 Turner began exhibiting his work throughout New England and New York. His work is in private collections throughout the U.S., Canada, England, France, Belgium, Sweden, Saudi Arabia and Australia. Bruce has received over 50 national and regional awards in his career, and is listed in Who's Who in American Art. His work has appeared in "American Artist Magazine", "Monhegan - The Artist's Island" , "The Best of Oil Paintings", and Grumbacher's "Palette Talk". Member: Am Artists Prof League; Copley Soc Boston; North Shore Arts Asn; Chautauqua Art Asn; Salmagundi Club.
Blue Hill, 1850
Brad Betts
9x12 Oil on Canvasboard
$1200
Brad paints a variety of landscape scenes from Maine’s dramatic shoreline. His paintings reflect his deep appreciation for the works of many fine artists, including Edward Hopper and the nautical scenes of John Stobart. Brad has been an artist for over 15 years and received his education from the University of Maine in Orono. He comes from a long line of artists that includes his father and grandparents. He has studied with Carolyn Blish and Don Demers and is a member of the American Society of Marine Artists.
Rocks and Shoals, Monhegan
watercolor, 14" x 21.5"
Bonnie Alpander
$850
Maine native Bonnie Alpander graduated from the University of Maine, Orono with a BS degree in Art Education. She also took advantage of several years abroad to visit museums and study art in Turkey, France and the Netherlands. Drawing upon this background in the Fine Arts, a clear influence of contemporary landscape artists is revealed in her watercolors, as she continues to develop her own unique style. “My greatest love is to paint on location, discovering new colors, patterns, and rhythms while capturing the intimacy of nature." Her love of plein air painting is expressed by annual pilgrimages to Acadia, Monhegan, and destinations along the Maine Coast.
Seawall
Oil on Linen 16 x 12
Andre Lucero
$1200
Andre paints the Maine landscape by heading out at dawn off the beaten track and discovering the charm the coast has used to seduce painters from Cole to Kent. He is an associate member of the Oil Painters of America and a member of Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association, and The Jack Woodson Sketch Club (plein air painting group, Richmond, Virginia).
After earning a BFA, cum laude, in 1989, Andre worked for more than a decade as a free-lance illustrator. During that time, his illustrations appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Washington Times and many other publications. Despite widespread acclaim (1995 Virginia Press Association Best of Show Award and the 1994 Award of Excellence from the Art Directors' Club of Metropolitan Washington, D.C.), Andre decided to leave the field of illustration and devote his full attention to his first love, painting. Andre Lucero lives and maintains a studio near Richmond, Virginia.
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