Landscape

Dennis Sheehan (1950-) Contemporary, American

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 18.5” x 24.5”
Frame Size: 25.5” x 31.5”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: $3800

Biography/Statement

Dennis Sheehan, born in Boston in 1950, is a member of the Guild of Boston Artists. His work is in major public and private collections., including the White House. Sheehan paints in the Barbizon mode with remarkable authority and faithful adherence to his 19th century precursors. In the tradition of the Tonalist painters, Sheehan creates landscapes of mood, affected by nature’s changing seasons.

“Today, in a cultural firmament that has been defined as Postmodern, a new generation of American painters is returning to the old landscape seeking a renewed vision.  The cultural strategies that they employ are as diverse as any from the past; in most cases, these painters consciously strive to enter into a dialogue with the history of the White Mountains art.  Their work, grounded in a sophisticated appreciation of what has come before, is in many cases deliberately discursive with a tradition that has been all but erased twice by historical and cultural forces.” 

The contemporary work of Dennis Sheehan, for example, affords a great nineteenth-century-predecessor George Inness.  Like Inness, whose influence is consciously acknowledged, Sheehan employs the dark palette and thickly pigmented surfaces of the French Barbizon School*. Maintaining a muted tonalist chromatic scheme, Sheehan, like Inness before him, has temerity to eschew picturesque scenery-his Conway Meadows avoids any reference to the traditional climax view of Mount Washington—in the interest of evoking atmospherics* and the appearance of the natural world as it is observed.

Optical truth combined with poetic resonance—the search for some ineffable quality of nature beyond words -constitutes the probity of his art. Yet, also like Inness, Sheehan’s paintings are produced in the studio. His work is the product of the conscious distillation of prior imagery ranging from the American Barbizon to the abstractions of Franz Kline. For all of the references to history—and there are multiple—there is no mistaking the artist’s debt to the more recent past. Without the legacy of action painting, Sheehan’s art would be less forceful and evocative than it is.”

Source: Guild of Boston Artists

 “My goal is to have the painting emanate light, rather than be just a surface that records the reflections of light. This is why the shadow areas are important, for it is from them that this emanation proceeds. The light areas are focal points of this effort, but the power comes from the shadows.” – Dennis Sheehan

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George Albert Frost (1843-1907)

October in New England

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 34” x 27”
Frame Size: 43” x 35.5”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: $7500

Biography/Statement

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Dennis Sheehan (1950-) Contemporary, American

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 29” x 39.5”
Frame Size: 39” x 48.5”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: $6500

Biography/Statement

Dennis Sheehan, born in Boston in 1950, is a member of the Guild of Boston Artists. His work is in major public and private collections., including the White House. Sheehan paints in the Barbizon mode with remarkable authority and faithful adherence to his 19th century precursors. In the tradition of the Tonalist painters, Sheehan creates landscapes of mood, affected by nature’s changing seasons.

“Today, in a cultural firmament that has been defined as Postmodern, a new generation of American painters is returning to the old landscape seeking a renewed vision.  The cultural strategies that they employ are as diverse as any from the past; in most cases, these painters consciously strive to enter into a dialogue with the history of the White Mountains art.  Their work, grounded in a sophisticated appreciation of what has come before, is in many cases deliberately discursive with a tradition that has been all but erased twice by historical and cultural forces.” 

The contemporary work of Dennis Sheehan, for example, affords a great nineteenth-century-predecessor George Inness.  Like Inness, whose influence is consciously acknowledged, Sheehan employs the dark palette and thickly pigmented surfaces of the French Barbizon School*. Maintaining a muted tonalist chromatic scheme, Sheehan, like Inness before him, has temerity to eschew picturesque scenery-his Conway Meadows avoids any reference to the traditional climax view of Mount Washington—in the interest of evoking atmospherics* and the appearance of the natural world as it is observed.

Optical truth combined with poetic resonance—the search for some ineffable quality of nature beyond words -constitutes the probity of his art. Yet, also like Inness, Sheehan’s paintings are produced in the studio. His work is the product of the conscious distillation of prior imagery ranging from the American Barbizon to the abstractions of Franz Kline. For all of the references to history—and there are multiple—there is no mistaking the artist’s debt to the more recent past. Without the legacy of action painting, Sheehan’s art would be less forceful and evocative than it is.”

Source: Guild of Boston Artists

 “My goal is to have the painting emanate light, rather than be just a surface that records the reflections of light. This is why the shadow areas are important, for it is from them that this emanation proceeds. The light areas are focal points of this effort, but the power comes from the shadows.” – Dennis Sheehan

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Lauren Sansariq (N/A)

Medium: Oil on board
Image Size: 9” x 14”
Frame Size: 14” x 19”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $2800

Biography/Statement

Lauren Sansaricq grew up in Columbia County, New York, where from an early age she was exposed to both the beauties of the Hudson Valley and, under the teaching of Thomas Locker, to the traditional painting techniques of the Hudson River School. Taking Mr. Locker’s advice Miss Sansaricq received academic training in drawing and painting at the Grand Central Academy of Art in NYC.

At just 21 years old, she was taken under the representation of Hawthorne Fine Art, a prestigious New York gallery specializing in 19th century Hudson River School Painting. Miss Sansaricq was also honored with a solo show in New York at Hawthorne Fine Art that same year.

Sansaricq’s work has been exhibited in Manhattan at historic venues like the Salmagundi Club, the National Arts Club and the Union League Club. In 2012 she had a solo show at Saint Anselm College, and had her work featured at the Boston International Fine Arts Show. One of Sansaricq’s paintings was also featured in the New York Times, surrounding the show she was apart of, “The Great Hudson River Exhibition”, in upstate NY.

Today Sansaricq’s work is in collections throughout the country, and is hung beside some of the best American painters of the past. She also teaches every summer on the Hudson River Fellowship, and now resides in the Catskill Mountains following in the footsteps of the great Hudson River School painters of the past.

Artist Profile Page: Sansaricq, Lauren / Categories: Landscape

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Jakub Podlodowski (1986-) Contemporary, European

Polish Forest

Image Size: 30” x 48”
Frame Size: 38” x 56”
Signature: Lower right
Price: $8500

Biography/Statement

JAKUB PODLODOWSKI – Born on April 28, 1986, in Lublin, Jakub Podlodowski is an artist whose work encompasses realistic painting, cg art, artistic animation, and conservation efforts. His artistic journey traces back to his undergraduate studies at the College of Fine Arts in Kazimierz Dolny, where he graduated with honors in the painting studio under the guidance of Professor Jacek Wojciechowski in 2007. He continued his education at the Faculty of Painting of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, earning a master’s degree in 2010.

Podlodowski has received numerous awards and recognitions, confirming his skill and artistic potential. In 2023, he was awarded the VI BWA Kielce Prize in the “Comparisons 32” competition organized by the Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions in Sandomierz. The previous year, in 2022, he was honored with a special mention in the category of plein air landscape painting during the 16th ARC Salon in New York, the largest realistic painting competition in the USA. Additionally, in 2022, his works were nominated for top prizes in the Winter Salon 47 organized by the Mazovian Centre for Contemporary Art Elektrownia in Radom. In 2017, he received an honorary mention in a painting competition for the grand prix of the Franciszka Eibisch Foundation. Earlier, he received an honorary mention in Animalis from the Artist and Art Quarterly, Grand Prix in the plein air competition “Nadsański Plener Malarski” in Chwałowice, and many others.

His artistic achievements include numerous solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. His paintings adorn private collections worldwide, and the artist actively collaborates with foreign galleries. He participated in the 16th ARC Salon Competition exhibition at the main headquarters of Sotheby’s in New York in July 2023. Another one of his works was subsequently purchased by Peter Jung’s gallery in Hudson, New York. The painting “In the Beech Forest” in its digitized version will be sent to the Moon by NASA in collaboration with SpaceX in 2024, as part of the Lunar Codex project (Polaris Collection).

His artistic talent has gained international recognition, engaging in projects for Warner Bros, DC Comics, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, creating backgrounds—oil paintings on commission for the largest animation studio in the Netherlands, Submarine, and collaborating on projects with director Hisko Hulsing on backgrounds for his animations, such as “Undone” and “Sandman: Dream of a Thousand Cats.”

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George Ames Aldrich (1879-1941) American

Spring Thaw (circa 1920-1930s)

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 30” x 36”
Frame Size: 40” x 46”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

One of South Bend, Indiana’s best-known landscape painters of the 20th century, George Ames Aldrich became most associated with richly painted impressionist landscapes with water of Brittany and Normandy.

He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on June 3, 1872.  His early art experience took place in the 1890’s while living in Europe.  He studied art in the Midwest, the East Coast, and throughout Europe, becoming a successful and respected etcher and painter. He worked as an illustrator for both Punch magazine and The London Times in the 1890’s.

Returning to the United States, he became a member of the Art Students’ League in New York City.  Soon thereafter, it is thought he may have studied architecture at M.I.T. in Massachusetts, and his experience there is evident in the buildings and houses in many of his landscapes.

Aldrich continued his art education in Paris, attending Academies Julian and Colarossi, and later joining the Societe des Artistes Francais.  His personal style was refined as he spent several years traveling throughout Europe.  Between 1909 and 1910, Aldrich lived with artist/instructor Dieppe, completing many of his most popular paintings in Normandy and Brittany.

In 1918, Aldrich arrived in Chicago and became involved with the South Bend art scene during the 1920s. The Indiana dune country, at the southern end of Lake Michigan, was a popular subject for Chicago’s painters. The area had reverted to wilderness after the Indians left and after the Chicago fire, when thousands of trees were cut down to rebuild the city.

Aldrich exhibited regularly at the Art Institute of Chicago, and was a member of the Chicago Galleries Association, the Hoosier Salon, and the Chicago Society of Painters and Sculptors.  In 1924, he won an architectural club traveling scholarship and traveled to Europe to paint in England, Germany, Spain, Italy, and France.

His work is represented in many museums throughout the world, and many private and corporate collections carry his work including the Union League of Chicago and the War Mothers Building in Washington DC.

He died in Chicago in 1941.

Source:
Michael David Zellman, 300 Years of American Art
William Gerdts, Art Across America

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Sean Witucki (N/A) Contemporary, American

Nocturnal view of Niagra Falls.

Medium: Oil on board
Image Size: 9” x 12”
Frame Size: 15” x 18”
Signature: Signed and dated 2022, verso
Frame: Frame by Paul Carter Goodnow of Pawtucket, RI
Price: $2400

Biography/Statement

Sean M. Witucki (b. 1977) obtained his BS and MS in Visual Art Education from the State University of NY at Buffalo State.  Sean is primarily a self-taught artist, who is always focused on developing his skills in the techniques of the traditional masters.  He has been a drawing and painting instructor at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts since 2002.

Sean reveals a personal and contemporary expression of landscapes and still lives which pay homage to his formative years. He spent much of his boyhood roaming the fields and woods on the edge of the Berkshire Mountains in Monson, Massachusetts.  This is where his understanding of the natural world took its roots.  This influence plays a major role in the subjects of Sean’s works.

In 2016 Sean had the honor of becoming a Hudson River Fellow with the Grand Central Atelier.  This experience has greatly influenced his work.

Artist Profile Page: Witucki, Sean / Categories: Landscape

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Charles Wilson Knapp (1823-1900) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 20” x 36”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Charles W. Knapp is well known for his quintessential depictions of farm life along the rivers and shorelines of America from New Hampshire to upper state New York. “View of the Susquehanna River” was painted between 1860-1870 in Pennsylvania farm country, where cattle drank along rivers and farmers piled hay on wagons to feed animals. This canvas is a major example painted during the peak of the Hudson River School tradition.

Knapp was born in Philadelphia in 1823 and he died in that city in 1900. He first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1859, at which time his address is listed as New York City. In 1878 he exhibited two New Hampshire views at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association in Boston, many views at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1877-1887) and most recently his canvases of Ellsworth Brook in West Campton, NH, the Entrance to Franconia Knotch, Silver Lake near Mount Chocorua, the Peabody River in Mount Washington, Saco and Kearsarge and the White Mountains from Androscoggin Valley were listed in New Hampshire Scenery (C.H. Campbell, NH Historical Society, Phoenix Publishing1985).

His paintings are in many relevant private collections and at the New Hampshire Historical Society, Dartmouth College Art Galleries and elsewhere. He is considered a leading White Mountains painter, but he spent many years in and around Philadelphia and the Susquehanna River painting landscapes from life. He also painted Narragansett Bay (RI), the Pocanos, the Catskills, the Delaware Water Gap and along the New Jersey Shore.

Artist Profile Page: Knapp, Charles Wilson / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape

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Warren Sheppard (1858-1937) American

Seascape on wooden pallette

Medium: Oil on Wood Pallette
Image Size: 11” x 14”
Frame Size: 13” x 15”
Signature: Signed lower center
Price: $3200

Biography/Statement

A student of Dutch marine artist, Mauritz de Haas, Warren Sheppard built two successful careers around his love of the sea: marine painting and yacht designing.

He was born in Greenwich, New Jersey, a town on the Delaware River below Philadelphia, which has been associated with ships and shipping since the earliest Colonial times.  His father was a sea captain and the young Sheppard took many voyages with his father to make artistic studies.  He learned perspective drawing at Cooper Union in New York City in addition to his studies with de Haas.  In 1879, he spent four months sketching Mediterranean port cities including Gibraltar, Genoa, Naples and Messina in Sicily.  Between 1888 and 1893, he also studied painting in Venice and Paris.

By the time he was in his mid-thirties, he had established himself as a successful illustrator and painter.  The yachts he painted were the most lavish of his day, owned by the wealthiest of men.  He was an expert in the design and rigging of ships of present and earlier times.  His work was highly regarded for its authenticity as well as its artistic merit.

Sheppard was also an expert navigator and sailed a number of famous yachts in races.  Twice he was to command Tamerlane when it won the New York to Bermuda run.  His book, Practical Navigation, was used for many years by the United States Naval Academy.  Though he retired from the sea, Sheppard continued to paint until his death in Brooklyn, New York in 1937.

Exhibited:
Denver Exposition 1884-Gold medal
Chicago Exposition – 1892
St. Louis Exposition-1904
Brooklyn Allied Artists Group Shows – 1874-1881
National Academy of Design – 1880-1899

Collections:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT
Addison Gallery of American Art (MA)
Phillips Academy, Andover
Springfield Public Library

Artist Profile Page: Sheppard, Warren / Categories: Landscape, Marine / Seascape

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Dennis Sheehan (1950-) Contemporary, American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Frame Size: 18” x 30”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: $7500

Biography/Statement

Dennis Sheehan, born in Boston in 1950, is a member of the Guild of Boston Artists. His work is in major public and private collections., including the White House. Sheehan paints in the Barbizon mode with remarkable authority and faithful adherence to his 19th century precursors. In the tradition of the Tonalist painters, Sheehan creates landscapes of mood, affected by nature’s changing seasons.

“Today, in a cultural firmament that has been defined as Postmodern, a new generation of American painters is returning to the old landscape seeking a renewed vision.  The cultural strategies that they employ are as diverse as any from the past; in most cases, these painters consciously strive to enter into a dialogue with the history of the White Mountains art.  Their work, grounded in a sophisticated appreciation of what has come before, is in many cases deliberately discursive with a tradition that has been all but erased twice by historical and cultural forces.” 

The contemporary work of Dennis Sheehan, for example, affords a great nineteenth-century-predecessor George Inness.  Like Inness, whose influence is consciously acknowledged, Sheehan employs the dark palette and thickly pigmented surfaces of the French Barbizon School*. Maintaining a muted tonalist chromatic scheme, Sheehan, like Inness before him, has temerity to eschew picturesque scenery-his Conway Meadows avoids any reference to the traditional climax view of Mount Washington—in the interest of evoking atmospherics* and the appearance of the natural world as it is observed.

Optical truth combined with poetic resonance—the search for some ineffable quality of nature beyond words -constitutes the probity of his art. Yet, also like Inness, Sheehan’s paintings are produced in the studio. His work is the product of the conscious distillation of prior imagery ranging from the American Barbizon to the abstractions of Franz Kline. For all of the references to history—and there are multiple—there is no mistaking the artist’s debt to the more recent past. Without the legacy of action painting, Sheehan’s art would be less forceful and evocative than it is.”

Source: Guild of Boston Artists

 “My goal is to have the painting emanate light, rather than be just a surface that records the reflections of light. This is why the shadow areas are important, for it is from them that this emanation proceeds. The light areas are focal points of this effort, but the power comes from the shadows.” – Dennis Sheehan

Artist Profile Page: Sheehan, Dennis / Categories: Barbizon School, Landscape, Tonalism

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