Cascading Dynjandi to Below

Fossinn Dynjandi
Rennur Fyrir Neðan /
Cascading Dynjandi to Below

Íslenskur:
Stærsti foss Vestfjarða er Dynjandi, röð risastórra fossa, 200 fet á breidd á einum stað. Þetta vatnslitamálverk var byggt á tilvísunarmynd sem ég tók 10. ágúst 2006. Ég málaði það í mars 2022. 17 "x 13" (b x h), vatnslitamynd og blek, 300 lbs. auka hvítur vatnslitapappír, 160,000 ISK

English:
The largest waterfall in the Westfjords of Iceland is Dynjandi, a series or huge waterfalls, 200' wide in one place. This watercolor painting was based on a reference photo I took August 10, 2006. I painted it in March 2022. 17" x 13" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof, fade proof archival ink on 300 lb. extra white watercolor paper, $1,200 USD

For sale at the forthcoming watercolor show with Óskar Thorarensen and Bruce McMillan, Reykjavík og Víðar / Reykjavik and Beyond, May 28 - June 22, 2022, Ófeigur, Skólavörðustígur 5, Reykjavík. After that Bruce McMillan's watercolors online here if still available.

 

Bruce by Bruce

Bruce by Bruce

based on a photo of me by Norma Johnsen
taken on March 25, painted March 28, 2022,
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 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, NFS

Bruce by Bruce has a permanent home in the honored Bruce McMillan Corner of the children's room at the Springvale Public Library, Springvale, Maine, the SPL website HERE.

Winter Woods Melted to Spring

Winter Woods Melted to Spring

the dirt roadside partly iced-over ditch on a woods walk behind my home in Shapleigh, Maine on March 25, 2022, painted March 27, 2022, 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 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
NFS

1,432 Meters of Loðmundur

1,432 Meters of Loðmundur /
1.432 Metrar hjá Loðmundi

English: A tuya volcano on the northeast edge of the Kerlingarfjöll mountain range in: the highlands of Iceland from a reference photo I took on July 4, 2015, painted March 21-22, 2022, 22" x 15" (w x h), watercolor and ink on 300 lb. extra white watercolor paper. $1,200 USD

for sale at the forthcoming watercolor show with
Óskar Thorarensen and Bruce McMillan, Reykjavík og Víðar / Reykjavik and Beyond, May 28 - June 22, 2022, Ófeigur, Skólavörðustígur 5, Reykjavík. After that online here if still available.

Íslenskur: Tuya eldfjall á norðausturbrún Kerlingarfjalla á hálendi Íslands af tilvísunarmynd sem ég tók 4. júlí 2015, máluð 21.-22. mars 2022, 22" x 15" (b x h), vatnslitamynd og blek á 300 pund auka hvítur vatnslitapappír. 160,000 ISK

Stórhöfði Sheep

Stórhöfði Kind / Stórhöfði Sheep

English: Three Vestmannaeyjar sheep at Stórhöfði, where I photographed Nights of the Pufflings, (US, Houghton, 1995), Pysjunætur (Iceland, Mal og Menning, 1995) painted March, 2022, 17" x 13" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and waterproof fade-proof ink on 300 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed, $900 USD

Íslenskur:
Þrjár Vestmannaeyjar á Stórhöfða, þar sem ég myndaði Nights of the Pufflings, (US, Houghton, 1995), Pysjunætur (Ísland, Mal og Menning, 1995) máluð mars, 2022, 17 "x 13" (b x h), Daniel Smith. , Schmincke Horadam og Winsor & Newton vatnslitir og vatnsheldur blek, 300 lbs. Fabriano Artistico kaldpressaður grófur 100% bómull extra hvítur vatnslitapappír, innrammaður, 120,000 ISK

For sale at the forthcoming watercolor show with Óskar Thorarensen and Bruce McMillan, Reykjavík og Víðar / Reykjavik and Beyond, May 28 - June 22, 2022, Ófeigur, Skólavörðustígur 5, Reykjavík. After that Bruce McMillan's watercolors online here if still available.

 

An Art of Sheep Gallery

The Art of Sheep
with art by
5 Icelanders, 1 American, 1 Brit, and 1 Israeli;
 4 of them men and 4 of them women;
including 3 art works from the
Bruce McMillan Collection

1
Gul / Yellow
Louisa Matthíasdóttir (1917-2000) Icelandic-American
Oil on canvas, 52" x 44" (w x h), 1990

Source: Wiki edited:
Louisa Matthíasdóttir (1917-2000), born and raised in Iceland, at 25-years-old in 1942 moved to New York city to study under Hans Hofmann, along with other painters including Robert De Niro, Sr., the father of the actor. In 1944 she married painter Leland Bell, and until Bell's death in 1991 they enjoyed a partnership of mutual support. Their daughter Temma was born in 1945.

She remained an Icelandic citizen the rest of her life, though she lived in New York, where she continued to paint he native Iceland. In 1996, Louisa was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Cultural Award, and in 1998 became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

2
Sheep in Field
Henry Moore (1898-1986), English
Lithograph printed in colors on T. H. Saunders paper,
32/50 (total edition includes 15 artist's proofs), 1974
Sold Sotheby's 2019 auction $3,125 USD
Estimate $1,000 - $1,500 USD
From the Collection of Nelson & Happy Rockefeller
Now in another Private Collection

Source: Wiki edited
Henry Moore (1898-1986) of England is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures located around the world as public works of art. Moore also produced many drawings, including a series depicting Londoners sheltering from the Blitz during the Second World War, along with other graphic works on paper.

Henry was the seventh of eight children in a family that often struggled with poverty. He turned down a knighthood in 1951 because he felt that the bestowal would lead to a perception of him as an establishment figure and that "such a title might tend to cut me off from fellow artists whose work has aims similar to mine".

His ability in later life to fulfill large-scale commissions made him exceptionally wealthy. Despite this, he lived frugally. Most of the money he earned went towards endowing the Henry Moore Foundation, which continues to support education and promotion of the arts.

3
Hvor á Sínum Klettí / Each on His Rock
Hekla Björk Guðmundsdóttir (1969- ), Icelandic
Oil on canvas, 5" x 3", 1999
Collection of Bruce McMillan

Hekla Björk Guðmundsdóttir, born in 1969, was raised inland in south central countryside of Iceland, Laugaland Holt in Rangárvallasýsla. She's a successful designer, painter, and sculptor, loons, sheep and horses in her art along with the wild flora of Iceland. She lives in Reykjavik with her husband and their three children. This small 1999 painting is one of three of hers in my collection, the other are two large, major works of art, 1998 and 2004 with sheep and horses.

The artist's website is HERE.

4
Two Lambs
Milton Avery (1885-1965), American
Two Lambs
Oil on canvas, 1961
Sold Sotheby's 2018 auction, $200,000 USD
Private collection

Source: Wiki edited
Milton Avery, born in 1885, began working at a local factory at 16-years-old in 1901 and supported himself for decades with a succession of blue-collar jobs. The death of his brother-in-law in 1915 left Avery, as the sole remaining adult male in his household, responsible for the support of nine female relatives. His interest in art led him to attend classes at the Connecticut League of Art Students in Hartford, and over a period of years, he painted in obscurity while receiving a conservative art education. In 1917, he began working night jobs in order to paint in the daytime.

In 1924, he met Sally Michel, a young art student, and in 1926, they married. Her income as an illustrator enabled him to devote himself more fully to painting. Beginning in the 1930s, the two began developing a "lyrical, collaborative style" that Robert Hobbs described as "the Avery style". They had a daughter, March Avery, in 1932, who also followed the Avery lyrical style.

Avery was often thought of as an American Matisse, especially because of his colorful and innovative landscape paintings. His poetic, bold and creative use of drawing and color set him apart from more conventional painting of his era. Early in his career, his work was considered too radical for being too abstract; when Abstract Expressionism became dominant his work was overlooked, as being too representational. His paintings today sell in the USD millions.

See a lovely article about the artist, and his artist wife and daughter along with their art HERE

5
Ein kind í Vestmannaeyjum /
One Sheep in Vestmannaeyjar
Jónína Björk Hjörleifsdóttir, Icelandic
Glass on Masonite with plaster, 3.5" x 3.25" (w x h), 2020
Collection of Bruce McMillan

Jóný, Jónína Björk Hjörleifsdóttir, an Icelander, has a studio gallery where she lives on Vestmannaeyjar off the south coast of Iceland. She works with glass as collage as well as paints.

6
Sheep
Menashe Kadishman (1932-2015) Israeli)
Oil on canvas, 1981
Sold Sotheby's 2012 auction $11,875 USD
Estimate $12,000 - $15,000 USD
Private collection

Source: Wiki edited
Menashe Kadishman, born in Palestine, was 15-years-old when his father died. He left school to help his mother and provide for the family, while studying sculpture in Israel. From 1950 to 1953 Kadishman worked as a shepherd on Kibbutz Ma'ayan Baruch. This experience with nature, sheep and shepherding had a significant impact on his later artistic work and career.

In 1959, Kadishman moved to London to study at Saint Martin's School of Art and the Slade School of Art. He had his first one-man show in 1965 at the Grosvenor Gallery, before returning to Israel in 1972.

The first major appearance of sheep in his work was at the 1978 Venice Biennale, where Kadishman presented a flock of colored live sheep as living art. In 1995, he began painting portraits of sheep by the hundreds, and even thousands, each one different from the next. These instantly-recognizable sheep portraits soon became his artistic trademark.

His awards and honors are too numerous to list here. More about the artist and his honors HERE.

7
Kindur um vetur / Sheep in Winter
Jóhann Briem (1907-1991), Icelandic
Oil, 24" x 28" (w x h)
Private Collection

Source: Icelandic Times edited
Jóhann Briem (1907-1991) studied art under Jón Jónsson, brother of noted painter Ásgrímur Jónsson. Jóhann studied in Dresen Germany at the Akademie Simonson-Castelli and then at the Staatliche. He was in Dresden when Hitler rose to power. He developed poetic expressionism, combining a warm color scheme, simple imagery and vivid brushstrokes in images often showing animals and people in nature. His work is in the major art museums of Iceland.

Read about this noted Icelandic artist and see more of his art HERE

8
Vindasamt sauðfé / Windy Sheep
Gunnella (Guðrún Elín Ólafsdóttir) (1956- ), Icelandic
Oil on canvas, 36" x 24" (w x h), 2006
This appeared on the back cover of the book
How the Ladies Stopped the Wind (Houghton, 2007)
Collection of Bruce McMillan

Gunnella began her art career as a graphic artist making serigraphs. Her style changed dramatically when she turned to oils and began experimenting. Gunnella's childhood memories of summer visits with her grandmother in the north of Iceland, Siglufjörður. Gunnella has a wonderful and playful sense of humor seen in her art, again and again. Icelandic sheep, horses, cats, dogs and especially chickens, all find their way into her art. Her art is a reflection of Iceland. Perhaps the National Gallery in Iceland will someday have the foresight and be fortunate enough to add this iconic painter's art where everyone will always be able to see it. She's painted all of the art for two books, The Problem with Chickens (Houghton 2005), a NY Times 10 Best Illustrated Books of the Year (2005) and How the Ladies Stopped the Wind (Houghton, 2007), as well as the art for the Prince Charles forward to It's Up to Us (WOEB, Kent, UK, 2021).

See a three-minute video where Gunnella talks about how she paints, in the context of a work she did for a British publisher, It's Up to Us, and environmental book, HERE.

Baulárvallavatn in Snæfellsnes

Baulárvallavatn á Snæfellsnesi /
Baulárvallavatn in Snæfellsnes

English:
This is the view of the lake from the scenic turnout along Route 56 on the way to Stykkishólmur that I snapped a photo of on March 26, 2005, and painted from in March 2022, 17" x 13" (w x h), using Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, with Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 300 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed. $900 USD.

For sale at the forthcoming watercolor show with Óskar Thorarensen and Bruce McMillan, Reykjavík og Víðar / Reykjavik and Beyond, May 28 - June 22, 2022, Ófeigur, Skólavörðustígur 5, Reykjavík. After that Bruce McMillan's watercolors online here if still available.

Íslenskur:
Þetta er útsýnið yfir vatnið frá fallegu aðkomunni eftir leið 56 á leiðinni til Stykkishólms sem ég tók mynd af 26. mars 2005 og málaði í mars 2022, 17 "x 13" (b x h), með Daniel Smith. , Schmincke Horadam og Winsor & Newton vatnslitamyndir með Uniball bleki. 300 pund. Fabriano Artistico kaldpressaður grófur 100% bómull extra hvítur vatnslitapappír, innrammaður. 120,000 ISK

 

Baulárvallavatn in Snæfellsnes Study

Baulárvallavatn
in Snæfellsnes Study

scenic turnout on Route 56 on the way to
Stykkishólmur on March 26, 2005,
painted March 5, 2022,
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 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed
$150

Ferry's Almost There

Ferry's Almost There

The Machigonne II Casco Bay
car ferry arriving at Peaks Island,
Portland, Maine on a balmy winter day,
February 23, 2020,  painted March 1, 2022,
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 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white watercolor paper,
$150

Surf, Rocks and Peaks

Surf, Rocks and Peaks 

along the east shore of Peaks Island, Portland,
Maine on February 23, 2022, painted March 2, 2022,
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 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed,
$300

By the Seaside Great Pond

By the Seaside Great Pond

on Peaks Island, Portland Maine on
February 23, 2022, painted March 1, 2022,
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 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed,
$150