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Fine Art Landscapes

 

This group of fine art landscapes is presented in roughly chronological order.

South Shore Seascape resulted from a biweekly trip along the southeast expressway from Boston to Brockton, MA. I tried to get the effect of moving through the scene.

Icicled Monadnock was painted in the early 60s when my palette was very muted and often monochromatic

Many of the others were the result of studying the Hudson River painters in the 70s with Prof John Driscoll, an authority on this unique American school of painters. We visited museums throughout New England studying these works. I had not studied these at Yale which had ignored the American School in their art history courses, concentrating on Europe and the eastern styles.

Fitzwilliam Barn

This is a barn done in oils that I painted when I was still a junior in high school. I had worked this up from a much smaller one that I had done on site. It was done in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. I entered this barn in the regional show at the Fitchburg Museum and won an honorable mention and a scholarship to study at the Worcester Art Musuem.

Doans Falls Bridge

This is an oil painting I did when I was working with Herbert Barnett at the Worcester Art Museum. It is a painting at Doan's Falls in Royalston, Massachusetts. I was using his system of dynamic symmetry, where you work with geometric measurements in order to construct the painting.
1943

South Shore Seascape

Icicled Monadnock

Cornish View

View of the Connecticut Valley from Cornish, NH.

This painting was done on site. I carried the easel up the hill with the paints, and I developed the painting very quickly. When you work outdoors you have only about an hour and fifteen or twenty minutes before the light changes. So this is to record that particular moment in time. 

I later took the same image and enlarged it into a much more detailed painting called Homage to Asher Durand. He was one of the early Hudson River painters whose work I admire very much. 
6" x 19"
1990

Homage to Asher Durand

Upper valley view of the Connecticut River.
The Artist's private collection.

All of the paintings below are of Massachusetts with Mt. Wachusett as the dominant mountain. [I saw it from my studio windows] in Westminster MA where I had a studio til moving to NH.

 

Weathersfield Bow

Walk from the Sauna

Keewaydin Campfire - Original

Keewaydin Campfire - Repaint

The original image was worked up from a small pencil drawing done on site. I also had slides that I had taken to add more details and color possibilities. I had thought about using somewhat ghostly images of the four winds from Hiawatha's poem, such as Mujekeewis, the north west wind but decided it was too hokey.

The canvas is quite large and adapted to several light sources, such as the sky and the campfire. After looking at it for a few months in my studio, I decided to edit it by removing some of the central trees to allow a better view of Mt Moosalamu, above Lake Dunmore, in Salisbury, Vermont. The site is, of course, Camp Keewaydin, at the north end of the lake. With the revision, the viewer is able to get a grander view of the setting. It is now owned by Hans M. Carlson, PhD.

Summer Swim

Sauna by the Lake

Spring Song

Along the Sugar River

Dark Wood

Bear Trap Falls

Rosamundi Bower

The Tower

A fantasy painting in oil on canvas.
Framed 40 x 60

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