at our weekly Kennebunkport, Maine drawing/painting group on Oct 11, 2024, 9" x 7" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and graphite on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$300
Monday, November 4, 2024
Yellow Blue Nude Too
Sunday, November 3, 2024
A Ferry Peaks I
on Casco Bay, Portland, Maine, the Machigonne I, September 15, 2024, painted October 28, 2024, 12" x 9" (w x h), using Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, all selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$400.
Art Essay - Casco Bay Ferries
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Art Essay on the
Title unknown
The Machigonne II Peaks Island Ferry
Paul Brahms (1963- ), American
Oil on canvas, 20" 16" (w x h), 2024
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, 1986
The artist's website HERE. More art HERE.
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Seascape
Roy Lichtenstein, (1923-1997), American
Lithograph, woodcut, and screenprint, 53" x 27" (w x h), 1985
Edition 60, printed and published by Gemini G.E.L.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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Portland Ferry Reflection
Sarah Knock (1948- ), American
Oil on canvas, 20" x 28" (w x h), 2022
11th Portland Biennial Show,
Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
The artist's website is HERE.
4
Untitled (Geometric Abstraction)
John McLaughlin (1898-1976), American
Oil on composition board, 38" x 32" (w x h), 1953
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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Ferry Boat, Portland, Maine Harbor
George Anderson (1931- ) Canadian/American
Acrylic on canvas, 22" x 26" (w x h)
Anderson Gallery, Portland, ME
For sale: $ 2,500 USD
The artist's website is HERE.
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Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Dutch
Oil on canvas, 22" x 24" (w x h), 1937-42
MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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Workers
Norma Johnsen (1939- ), American
Oil on canvas, 12" x 16" (w x h), 2020
The artist lives and paints on Peaks Island.
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Composition of Red, Blue, Yellow and White: Nom III
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Dutch
Screenprint in colors, 17" x 17" (w x h), 1967
from A Portfolio of Ten Paintings, edition of 150
For sale: $5,800 USD
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Thursday, October 31, 2024
A Ferry Peaks II
On Casco Bay, Portland, Maine, the Machigonne II, September 15, 2024, painted October 28, 2024, 10" x 8" (w x h), using Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, all selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$300
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Autumn on the Edge
in a field behind my home painted plein air on Oct 23, 2024, 14" x 11 (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$500
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Uplifting Fall
in a field behind my home painted plein air on Oct 18, 2024, 14" x 10 (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$500
Monday, October 28, 2024
Woods Hangs onto Autumn Barely
Autumn Barely
in my woods as seen from my home's window on Oct 27, 2024 painted Oct 28, 2024, 10" x 8 (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$300
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Warm Autumn Sky Fall
with foliage at a field's wood's edge behind my home painted Oct 15, 2024, 10" x 8" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$300
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Autumn Over There
with foliage at a field's wood's edge behind my home painted Oct 15, 2024, 7" x 5" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$200
Monday, October 21, 2024
Autumn Oaks Leaving
at the edge of a back field behind my home painted on Oct 15, 2024, 10" x 8" (w x h), using Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$300
Monday, October 14, 2024
Goat Island Light Attitude
in Cape Porpoise Harbor, Kennebunkport, Maine on June 11, 2023, painted June 16-17, 2023, 10" x 8" (w x h), using Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$300
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Puffin Pair Up There
Painted October 10, 2024 from two photos of Icelandic puffins (Fratercula arctica) flying in the Icelandic Bay of Breidafjordur in the Bjarnareyjar Islands archipelago where I lived solo on one of the uninhabited islands, Budey, for five mid-summer weeks in 2005 rowing between the islands, 9" x 12" (w x h), using Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed, $400
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Our Model's Hair Peaks Studies
With model Shelly at our Kennebunkport Drawing Group, Sept 8, 2024, 8" x 10" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$300
With model Shelly at our Kennebunkport Drawing Group, Sept 8, 2024, 7" x 5" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150
With model Shelly at our Kennebunkport Drawing Group, Sept 8, 2024, 7" x 5" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150
With model Shelly at our Kennebunkport Drawing Group, Sept 8, 2024, 5" x 7" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150
With model Shelly at our Kennebunkport Drawing Group, Sept 8, 2024, 5" x 7" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150
With model Shelly at our Kennebunkport Drawing Group, Sept 8, 2024, 9" x 12" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$350
With model Shelly at our Kennebunkport Drawing Group, Sept 8, 2024, 7" x 5" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
A Simple View Scene
painted at our Kennebunkport figure art group with model Karen on Aug 23, 2024, 5" x 7" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150.
Friday, September 13, 2024
Wave at You Study 3
This was painted during the 2024 Ogunquit (Maine) Perkins Cove Plein Air Event on September 7th and completed in my studio when dry for wet lifting using Viva Signature paper towels and brushed layering. 12" x 9" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$300
Maine Surf in Watercolor by 8 Artists
Surf in Watercolor
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Monhegan Museum of Art and History, Monhegan Island, ME
Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
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The Sea, Maine (Deer Isle)
John Marin (1870-1953), American
Watercolor and charcoal on paper, 20" x 17" (w x h), 1921
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Source Wiki edited and added to:
John Marin (1870-1953), American, spent his first summer in Maine in 1914 and almost immediately the rocky coast there became one of his favorite subjects. Over the rest of his life, Marin became intimately familiar with the many moods of the sea and sky in Maine. "In painting water make the hand move the way the water moves," Marin wrote in a 1933 letter to an admirer of his technique. Though he painted at many places along the Maine coast, he never painted on Monhegan Island, where many famous artists of his day painted, because he preferred to find his own places. Eventually he had a home at Cape Split in Addison, Maine.
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Neptune Churn
Vincent Andrew Hartgen (1914-2002), American
Watercolor on paper, 26" x 20" (w x h)
Gift of the artist
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Source Museum Notes edited and added to:
Vincent Hartgen was head of the art department at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine when I was a student in the late 1960s. He grew the art department while he also painted abstract watercolors inspired by the Maine landscape, coast and nature. During his life he was awarded the Black Bear Award, the Distinguished Professor Award and even became an honorary doctor of fine arts at the University of Maine. Born on January 10, 1914, in Reading, Pennsylvania, Hartgen was an artist from an early age. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and during World War II (1942- 1945) he was a camoufleur, or a person who designed military camouflage. Hartgen arrived at the University of Maine Orono in 1946 and taught until his retirement in 1982. He passed away on November 27, 2002, at the age of 88. He was a prolific artist, creating an estimated 2,000 signed paintings and drawings and an equal number of sketches.
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Pounding Surf, Portland
Frederick J. Ilsley, (1855-1933), American
Watercolor on wove paper, 12" x 9", 1932
Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
Source Cincinnati Art Gallery edited:
Frederick Julian Ilsley (1855-1933) was born and died in Portland, Maine. He was a self-taught artist, and a member of: the Portland Society of Artists, the Salmagundi Club, the Rockport (MA) Art Association, the American Artists Professional League, the Hayloft Club, the American Federation of Artists, and the Brushians Club, Portland Maine. He exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists 1925, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1931. Ilsley worked as an engineer for Cumberland County Power and Light, and later the owner of his own business, Ilsley & Cummings, company of civil engineers on Exchange Street in Portland. As a member of the Brushians Club he traveled with the group at least once a week to paint throughout Maine and New Hampshire on painting excursions. He was known to other members of the Club as the Politician and looked to by the group to add spice and insight into conversations.
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Seascape with Rocks (Monhegan Island)
Henry Newell Cady (1849-1935), American
Watercolor on paper, 19" x 14" (w x h)
Monhegan Museum of Art and History, Monhegan Island, Maine
Source askART and Wiscasset Bay Gallery, edited:
Henry Newell Cady (1849-1935), was born and died in Warren, RI. He was known for his seascapes of the New England coastline with a sensitive touch for capturing the effects of sky and sunlight conditions as they affected the sea and rocky shoreline in ever-changing rhythms. As a self-taught painter, Cady exhibited amazing ability at a young age. One of his paintings from 1869, when he was twenty, of seacoast waves crashing on the rocky New England shore, hangs in the John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI. Cady attended Brown University, studied art at the National Academy of Design, and was a member of the Providence Art Club. Cady exhibited at many prestigious exhibitions, was an illustrator for several national magazines, composed piano music, even after he began to go deaf, and photography.
Untitled #4776 (Monhegan Island)
Ted Davis (1908-1995), American
Watercolor on paper, 14" x 10" (w x h), 1956
Gift of James B. Wyeth
Monhegan Museum of Art and History, Monhegan Island, Maine
Source askART edited:
Ted Davis (Louis Theodore Davis) (1908-1995) was born and died in New York, NY. For nearly fifty years he summered on Monhegan Island. He likened the island to a big cruise ship. It never went anywhere, but the passengers and the atmospheric changes were constantly changing. From the late 1940s to the end of his life, Ted's work became increasingly abstract yet it always contained elements of the natural environment. The early work, influenced by Hans Hoffman "push-pull theory" used Marin-esque brush strokes to imply a setting, rather than utterly define it. Ultimately, these brush strokes resolved themselves into blocks of color--a fish shack, a boat, and a buoy. From the 1960s to the 1990s he created prismatic layers of thin color, each layer overlapping and intersecting another. Was it the sun that shone through the center of these works? Ted Davis was a beloved figure on the Island. Many collectors and friends were devoted to his work and through him were educated to the world of modernism. His artistic skill was summed up by the painter and The New Yorker cover illustrator and fellow summer islander, Charles E. Martin, who called Ted "the best watercolorist on the island."
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Thundering Sea (Monhegan Island)
James Edward Fitzgerald (1899-1971), American
Watercolor on paper, 26" x 20" (w x h)
Monhegan Museum of Art and History, Monhegan Island, Maine
Source various edited:
James Edward Fitzgerald (1899-1971), known for his watercolors, was born in Milton, MA and died at Isle of Aran, Ireland. In 1924 at 25-years-old he made his first trip to Monhegan Island. In 1928 he shipped to the West Coast as a seaman aboard a freighter, then settled in Monterey, California from 1928 to 1943 where he lived and painted. In 1943 he sold his studio in the Monterey hills and moved to the former home of his friend Rockwell Kent on Monhegan Island, ME where he spent much of his later career painting in his unique style. This house is now a part of the Monhegan Museum. He made many trips to Jamaica, Nova Scotia, the Canary Islands, and the Isle of Aran off the coast of Ireland.
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Sunken Ledges (Ogunquit)
Charles Herbert Woodbury
Watercolor on paper, 29" x 21" (w x h), 1933
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Source Wiki edited:
Charles Herbert Woodbury (1864-1940), born in Lynn, MA and died in Jamaica Plain, MA, was a close buddy of John Singer Sargent and a President of the Boston Watercolor Society. His earliest work was part of the group later known as the Lynn (MA) Beach Painters. While an undergraduate at M.I.T. he became a regular exhibitor at, and at 19 the youngest member of, the Boston Art Club. After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with degree in Mechanical Engineering, in 1886 Woodbury had great success painting up the New England coast in the towns and beaches of Nova Scotia, exhibiting the results. From January to June 1891, he was a pupil of the Académie Julian in Paris, and then went to Holland, where he studied the techniques of the modern Dutch painters. Returning to New England, he settled in Boston for his winter studio and spent his summers in the small fishing village of Perkins Cove, Ogunquit, Maine. In 1897 he founded one of the most successful of the summer art colony schools that even survived his death, the Ogunquit School. In 1928, Woodbury, along with a group of other area-artists, founded the Ogunquit Art Association. Woodbury was one of the most sought-after teachers of his generation, having begun teaching on a regular basis while a freshman at M.I.T. Ironically, he had little formal training himself other than a few months of classes at the Academy Julian in Paris. Woodbury maintained a close friendship with John Singer Sargent and a pleasant acquaintance with many of his contemporaries including J. Alden Weir and Childe Hassam.
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The Washerwoman
Sears Gallagher (1869-1955), American
Watercolor on paper, 19" x 15" (w x h)
Monhegan Museum of Art and History, Monhegan Island, Maine
Source Wiki edited:
Sears Gallagher (1869-1955), was born in South Boston, MA and died in Roxbury, MA. He was an American artist proficient in drawing, etching, watercolor and oil painting. His work consisted largely of landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes depicting his native Boston and northern New England, especially Monhegan Island, Maine. Illustrating magazines and books provided steady work and income, and his etchings and prints attracted popular demand. Gallagher took his art seriously, adapted new techniques, and was open to the influence of European Impressionism. During the height of his career his watercolors were favorably compared to those of Winslow Homer and F. W. Benson, and his etchings and drypoints to those of James McNeill Whistler.
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Wave at You Study 1
Perkins Cove Plein Air Event
(press it twice to play).
See all of the Plein Air Photos
of the event at the Event's web page Gallery HERE.
Monday, September 9, 2024
Surf Surge
This was painted during the 2024 Ogunquit (Maine) Perkins Cove Plein Air Event on September 7th with over 100 painters participating and judging done that day, but I submitted another one for judging. This one is a study that I refined further in my studio the following day to complete the finishing touches September 8, 2024, 14" x 11" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$500
Sunday, September 8, 2024
Gilsland Caretaker for the Birds
Painted June 28, 2024, 10" x 8" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$300
This painting was juried into this show and on display for sale at Maine Audubon's Gilsland Farm at 50 Art Exhibition at 20 Gilsland Farm Road, Falmouth, ME on September 13-October 14, 2024 Opening Reception open to the public Sunday Sept 15, 2024, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
My essay included with my entry: Strolling across the rolling fields of grasses and goldenrod, glancing at the tidal inlets, listening to birds singing, and even watching turkeys trot, inspires me to capture a sense of place, this wild refuge yet so close to a city. Whether it's early morning or afternoon light, the sun paints Gilsland Farm for both wildlife and me to feast on.
Friday, September 6, 2024
Site of Soaring Height
in East Iceland on July 14, 2024, painted August 5, 14" x 11" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$500
Site of Soaring Height Sketch
in East Iceland on July 14, 2024, painted August 5, 7" x 5" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
6014 feet of Snæfell
in east Iceland, the tallest mountain not under a glacier, on July 15, 2024, painted July 19, 2024, 7" x 5" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Prismacolor waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150