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Monhegan Vistas
Exhibited Sep 1 to Nov 1, 2012
"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
Monhegan shows no sign of relinquishing top spot in the US for landscape painting. Easily the most painted square mile in America, artists continue to flock to Monhegan Island during the summer to test their skills against its rugged cliffs and picturesque fishing village. At summer's end we will be displaying classic and new works of Monhegan that reveal the wonderful diversity of images created on this magical island.
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
SAMUEL PETER R. TRISCOTT (1846-1925)
Ernest Wincapaw's and the Brackett Fish House, Monhegan
Watercolor 17 x 27 in.
$7500
Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott was born January 4, 1846 in Gosport, England. He was one of five children and had a genteel middle class upbringing. Triscott studied civil engineering. His artistic training in painting was at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors in London under Philip Mitchell.
In 1871 Triscott moved to America and settled in Worcester, Massachusetts where he was a partner in a civil engineering firm. In 1874 he began selling paintings from his office in Worcester. In 1881 Triscott had a one man show at the Boston Art Club. His style of painting with fluent washes of transparent color, though a change from the accepted norm, was well received. Triscott worked as a painting teacher during this time and it is believed his students included Winslow Homer, Sears Gallagher, William J. Bixbee, Woodbridge Gee, Melbourne H. Hardwick, Charles Copeland, William Ladd Taylor, and Robert Henri.
Triscott became quite active in the art world and showed regularly at the Boston Art Club, the American Watercolor Society in New York, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Gallery of J. Eastman Chase. In 1885, he was one of the founding members of the Boston Society of Water Color Painters.
Triscott began visiting Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine in the early 1890's. The artist purchased a large lot of land which he sold off for cottages in his later years. Every year Triscott increasingly spent more time on the island eventually staying there year round. On April 28, 1894 Triscott was naturalized in Boston. He returned to Monhegan Island and continued to show his work and receive exceptional reviews. S.P. R. Triscott died on April 15, 1925 on Monhegan Island.
Source:
"American Art Review", December 2002
Jay Hall Connaway (1893-1970)
Sunset, Monhegan
Oil on board, 24 x 29 in.
$4500
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.
September Sun, Monhegan
Monhegan Houses
Joyce Walker
Fish Beach, Monhegan 1949
Oil on artist's board, 12 x 16 in
16 x 20 in period chestnut frame.
$1100
Joyce Walker
Lobsterman's Backyard, Monhegan 1949
Oil on artist's board, 20 x 16
Framed in Gold 25 x 21
SOLD
"MONHEGAN SHORELINE"
SAMUEL EMMONS BROWN (1886-1964)
ORIGINAL OIL ON CANVASBOARD 16” X 20”
AMERICAN STYLE ARTS & CRAFTS FRAME 21.5" X 25.5”
$1800
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Monhegan Village
11 x 14 matted photograph
$60
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Monhegan and Manana
8 x 16 matted photograph
$60
Monhegan Vista
11 x 14 Oil
Diane Scott
$900 Framed
Bruce Backman Turner (b. 1941)
Monhegan Village
Oil on board. 12 X 16 in.
$800
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.
Swim Beach (watercolor, 14" x 21.5")
Swim Beach (watercolor, 14" x 21.5")
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Stop by and visit the gallery anytime during the summer or for the opening reception on Friday, July 16th, 5-7 pm
See the calendar for future exhibitions.
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