Barbizon School, Landscape, Tonalism

Dennis Sheehan (1950-) Contemporary, American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 30” x 40”
Frame Size: 40” x 50”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD

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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Erik Koeppel (1980-) Contemporary, American

Sunset Landscape

Medium: Oil on Panel
Image Size: 5” x 12”
Frame Size: 11” x 18”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

STATEMENT:

In the act of painting, I have sought to discover that highest knowledge of Beauty, poetic and philosophical, that has been the common thread between all of the Great Masters of Art. I have spent hours staring at the finest masterpieces in museums worldwide in an effort to decipher that meditative effect that distinguishes greatness from proficiency, and have made the creation of that sentiment my central goal as an artist. Following this path has led me to study deeply the sciences of philosophy, design, linear perspective, anatomy, color, optics, architecture, botany, light and atmosphere with respect to their purposes in art, and I have built a foundation of consistent formal principles that work in harmony to illuminate meaning in painting. As my subject, I have chosen the universal human condition in this world, and have sought wherever possible to discard the sociopolitical fashions of contemporary culture in favor of those enduring sentiments that we all encounter in life. It is my belief that to experience the Beauty of our existence here in this magnificent landscape is the only way to happiness. My intention as an artist is to share that Beauty. 

Artist Profile Page: Koeppel, Erik / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape, Luminist

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Thomas Lochlan Smith (1835-1884) American, European

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 12” x 20”
Frame Size: 20” x 28”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Thomas Lochlan Smith was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and emigrated to America at an early age. He studied with George H. Boughton in Albany, New York, and had a studio there for several years before moving to New York City. He exhibited frequently at the National Academy of Design, New York City, and was elected an Associate Member of the Academy in 1869. His work was shown at the Boston Athenaeum in 1866 and 1868 and at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia. Smith was noted for his winter scenes.

Artist Profile Page: Smith, Thomas Lochlan / Categories: Landscape

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Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978) American

Painted near Woodstock, New York. Circa 1935

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

Biography/Statement

Born in Rochester, New York, Emile Gruppe became a renowned New England landscape and marine painter. Although he is best known for his variety of Impressionistic landscapes, he also painted figures and portraits. His modern style was largely inherited from French Impressionist Claude Monet. “Lily Pads,” date and location unknown, one of Gruppes landscapes, attests to Monets influence and is similar to some of the paintings in Monets “Water Lily” series.

He was the son of landscape artist Charles Paul Gruppe, and was born in 1896 in Rochester, New York. He had a very strong art background. In addition to being raised by an artistic father, he was also educated in art at The Hague in the Netherlands and in New York City at the National Academy of Design and The Arts Students League. He also received instruction from artists George Bridgeman, Charles Chapman, Richard Miller and John F. Carlson, with whom he would later founded, in 1942, the Gruppe Summer School in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He made his permanent studio in Gloucester.

His artistic career had begun in 1915, but was briefly interrupted in 1917 when he spent a year in the United States Navy.

Gruppes prolific career brought him many awards and memberships. His popular painting “Winter, Vermont,” date and location unknown, won the Richard Mitton Award at the Jordan Marsh Exhibition in Boston in 1943.

Credit: “American Art Analog” by Michael David Zellman. Vol. III, p. 911

Artist Profile Page: Gruppe, Emile Albert / Categories: Impressionism, Landscape

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Frank Swift Chase (1886-1958) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 24” x 30”
Frame Size: 32” x 38”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Painter. Born in St Louis, MO on March 12, 1886. Chase studied at the ASL in NYC in 1909. He was based in New York and Nantucket, MA except during 1935-36 when he was in southern California where he painted the desert near Palm Springs. He died in Woodstock, NY in July 1958. Exh: Salmagundi Club, 1921; NAD, 1921; AIC, 1922; PAFA, 1923; San Diego FA Gallery, 1928. In: Charleston (SC) Museum; Mechanics Inst.
(Rochester, NY). 1] WWAA 1936-56.

Artist Profile Page: Chase, Frank Swift / Categories: Landscape

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Bruce Busko (N/A) Contemporary, American

Seascape / Sunset

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 40” x 40”
Frame Size: 45” x 45”
Signature: Signed lower right and dated
Price: $7500

Biography/Statement

Bruce Busko is an exhibiting artist and Owner/ Director of Landing Gallery.  His work has been exhibited in his galleries since 1980 with a long list of additional Juried Shows, Invitational Exhibits and Awards.  He received his MFA from Pratt Institute and BFA from the Pennsylvania State University.

“During my frequent hikes, throughout Maine, I like to gather inspiration and visual information for my artwork. Nature walks and my outdoor experience become the first step for creating art in my studio.  Sketches, photos, memory and on site materials become the initial components of my painting process.  Each element lends its “specific flavor” to enrich my feeling for the subject. It can begin with a strong composition created by a low tide or perhaps the reflection of the sun and clouds in a calm body of water.  To seek is to find, is my moto.  Selecting what speaks to me is the core and the beginning of my creative experience.”

Artist Profile Page: Busko, Bruce / Categories: Landscape, Luminist, Marine / Seascape

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William Walton (1843-1915) American

View eastward toward the Taghkanic Range

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 30” x 50”
Frame Size: 38” x 58”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $9500

Biography/Statement

William Walton painted landscapes in the Mid-Hudson valley in the late 19th century.

Artist Profile Page: Walton, William / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape

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Dubois Fenelon Hasbrouck (N/A) American

Medium: Sepia watercolor on paper
Image Size: 8” x 15”
Frame Size: 14” x 21”
Signature: Signed and dated 1889 lower right
Price: $3200

Biography/Statement

A landscape painter who worked in both oil and watercolor, Dubois Fenelon Hasbrouck was from Stamford, New York. He exhibited at the Brooklyn Academy of Art, New York, 1884-86; National Academy of Design, New York City 1885-94; Boston Art Club, Massachusetts, 1886-93; and the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 1888-89.

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Jose Roig (1898-1968) European

Cordoba, Spain

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 38” x 46”
Signature: Signed lower right, inscribed "Cordoba, Spain" verso
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

N/A

Artist Profile Page: Roig, Jose / Categories: Landscape

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Ambrose Andrews (1805-1859) American

Medium: Oil on Cavas
Image Size: 22” x 36”
Signature: Signe lower center
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

An itinerant portrait, miniature, and landscape painter, Ambrose Andrews had a wide-ranging career geographically that saw him in many regions including New York (1829-31), Connecticut (1837), Texas (1837-1841) and Louisiana (1841-42). After 1844, he was active in St. Louis, New York City, Buffalo, New York, Vermont and Canada. He was born in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and in 1824, attended the National Academy of Design.

Andrews exhibited paintings at the Republic of Texas Capitol in 1837; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1848; the National Academy of Design and the American Art Union in 1849; and the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1859. His portrait subjects include Henry Clay and Sam Houston. His work is in the collection of the New York Historical Society.

Artist Profile Page: Andrews, Ambrose / Categories: Landscape

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