Marine / Seascape, Regionalist (Urban)

Mary Jo Van Dell (N/A) Contemporary, American

Moonlight Beach

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 30” x 36”
Frame Size: 38” x 44”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: $6500

Biography/Statement

Mary Jo Van Dell, an artist from the St. Croix River Valley of Minnesota, has devoted her life to mastering her artistic vision onto the oil painter’s canvas.

Largely self-taught, Van Dell’s style, unique and independent, defies precise classification. Historical references might include Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth. Her minimalist palette emphasizes the natural world, austere and uncompromising. Her contrast of light and dark captures the drama and power. With her paintings Van Dell conveys the awe and joy of the nature’s rawness, and invites others to share in her emotional response.

Van Dell is known for evocative works in oil, rich in beauty, mystery and immense power. Many of her paintings depict man’s presence and his struggle to survive in an ever changing environment.

She draws inspiration by hiking, backpacking, skiing and immersing herself in the wild. The rivers, lakes and forests of northern Minnesota, especially the North Shore of Lake Superior, and into Canada have been her focus throughout her life. More recently, she has explored and portrayed landscapes of the Pacific coast and desert vistas of the Southwest.

Collected and exhibited nationally and internationally, Van Dell’s paintings hang in both public and private collections including, The Minnesota Historical Society, The Minnesota Marine Art Museum, The National Park system and most recently the Art in Embassies program of the U.S. State Department.

Artist Profile Page: Van Dell, Mary Jo / Categories: Marine / Seascape, Regionalist (Urban)

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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: $2800

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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Max Kuehne (1880-1968) American

Medium: Oil on Board
Image Size: 18” x 24”
Frame Size: 26” x 32”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $7500

Biography/Statement

Born in Halle, Germany in 1880, Max Kuehne was a colorist who created cheerful landscapes that appear to be painted spontaneously and with freshness.

He studied with William Merritt Chase and Kenneth Hayes at the Chase School in New York. In 1910, he embarked on a bicycling trip, traveling through England, France, Germany, Holland and Belgium. To support this trip he did portrait commissions along the way.

When he returned to New York City, he set up a studio in Greenwich Village and was a student of Robert Henri from whom he learned a dark impressionist style. He also became close with such avant garde artists as Guy Pene du Bois, William Glackens, William Zorach and Maurice and Charles Prendergast, which also influenced his dark work including street scenes and docks in New York City. However, three years in Spain, and painting trips to Gloucester lightened his palette as did time in Paris where he was much influenced by the Fauves, Nabis, and decorative painters. By 1912 he was producing work that would make him known as a “colourist of great distinction” by producing “paintings full of sparkling sunlight.”

He became a member of the artistic community later in Rockport, Massachusetts, with Gifford Beal, Leon Kroll, Paul Manship, Edward Hopper and Jonas Lie. Many of his finest paintings done later in his career are of the busy harbors and piers of Gloucester and Rockport.

His work was widely exhibited including the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.

Artist Profile Page: Kuehne, Max / Categories: Landscape, Marine / Seascape

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Perkins Parker (1862-1942) American

Medium: Pen and Ink on Paper

Price: $850

Biography/Statement

Parker S. Perkins was born in Lowell, MA on March 16, 1862 and died on Sunday, October 18,1942 at the age of 80. Perkins — a highly respected, self-taught marine painter of Rockport, MA— is remembered for his harbors, ships, and coastal scenes as well as interiors and kittens.

Although born in Lowell, Perkins spent most of his youth in Gardner, MA and is considered to be one of the city’s most successful citizens. He was never very famous or collected by New England museums and never achieved financial success, but because he painted for the sake of creating what he loved, he is one of America’s success stories.

Always dignified with a high sense of drama, Perkins was one of Cape Ann’s greatest and most admired marine painters. He lived on Gott Street in Rockport, MA and was, for many years, one of the seaports major attractions. Harrison Cady, famous illustrator and life-long friend of Perkins, asked him for his help painting a sixty foot long mural in Manhattan. Perkins obliged and then he returned to Cape Ann and the work he loved. Fame and financial success were never concerns of Perkins but what change of direction may have taken place if Perkins had put more thought into his career and remained in New York?

He exhibited with the Boston Art Club in 1895, 1891, 1894, and 1898. In the BAC exhibition of 1885, he listed his address as 70 West Newton Street in Boston, MA. Perkins also exhibited in New York and the Rockport Art Association.

Parker S. Perkins is represented in collections of the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, MA; the Rockport Art Association in Rockport, MA and museums in Syracuse, Detroit, and Mexico City.

Artist Profile Page: Perkins, Parker / Categories: Illustration, Marine / Seascape

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Alexander Bower (1875-1952) American

View of Portland Harbor, Maine

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 34” x 27”
Frame Size: 44” x 37”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $16500

Biography/Statement

An American Impressionist, Bower was born in New York, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and was living with his wife in Cliff Island, Maine by 1914. Despite his urban upbringing, the coast and the sea fascinated Bower. A large portion of his paintings are seascapes, particularly scenes depicting the coast of Cape Elizabeth and Cliff Island, Maine.

Bower was a member of the Salmagundi Club, the Philadelphia Watercolor Club, and the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters, as well as being an associate member of the National Academy of Design.

He exhibited at the Carnegie Institute, the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

His works are in the collection of the Springfield Art Museum, the Butler Art Institute, the Sweat Memorial Art Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine.

Bower was not only a painter but also the Director of the Sweat Memorial Art Museum and Director of the School of Fine and Applied Art (both in Portland, Maine), a trustee at Westbrook College in Portland, Maine, and an art instructor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

Artist Profile Page: Bower, Alexander / Categories: Impressionism, Marine / Seascape

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William R. Davis (1952-) Contemporary, American

"The Cottage"

Medium: Oil on Board
Image Size: 6” x 8”
Frame Size: 9” x 11”
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Price: $1250

Biography/Statement

Bill Davis is a noted marine painter. He grew up in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.  He is a self-taught artist whose oil paintings typically capture the serene light of sunrise or sunset on the water.   He employs many of the techniques traditionally used by American luminist painters to realize his personal vision, showing a marked preference for 19th century subjects.

In 1987, Davis had the first one artist show ever mounted at the Mystic Maritime Gallery in Mystic, Connecticut.  All twenty of the works featured in that show were sold at the opening reception. In 1990, he received the Mystic Maritime Gallery Award of Excellence, and his painting entitled Calm Day Off Latimer’s Reef appeared on the cover of Mystic’s The Art of the Sea Calendar in 1993.  Three of his paintings were also used in the book ‘Shipwrecks Around Boston’ by Cape Cod author, William P. Quinn.   Rockport Publishers has included Boston Harbor at Sunset in a new book entitled, ‘A Gallery of Marine Art.’

Much of Davis’ early works pays homage to 19th century artists such as James Bard, Martin Johnson Heade, Antonio Jacobsen and Fitz Hugh Lane.  He limits himself to about 30 colors in the palette of that period.  He describes his style as a “conglomerate of a number of ideas I saw in other artists with my own refinements.” Over the years, he has incorporated his fascinations for the different techniques of these artists.

In a tribute to Martin Johnson Heade, which appeared in the July 1991 issue of American Artist magazine, Davis refers to sunset as “the hour when night usurps day.”  He observes that this is the “best time of day for painters to capture the ‘inner state’ of a landscape,” and represents “an unequaled opportunity to sensitize the eye to the delicate mysteries of light and shadow.”

Although best known for his marine subjects, Davis strives to make his work accessible to those with a variety of tastes while expanding his own horizons as an artist.  Following the painting of Davis’ Lilacs and Basket, featured on the poster for The Cahoon Museum of American Art 1992 exhibition entitled, “The Flowers of New England.”

Davis has shifted in the last few years to painting more landscapes on location. In the process, he has converted to plein air painting, partly influenced by his friendship with artists Joseph McGurl and Donald Demers.

Artist Profile Page: Davis, William R. / Categories: Landscape, Luminist, Marine / Seascape, Moonlight

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Edward R. Kingsbury (1855-1940) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 30” x 36”
Frame Size: 38” x 44”
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Price: $9500

Biography/Statement

Born in Boston, MA in 1855. Kingsbury studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, Boston Museum School, and Académie Julian in Paris. A resident of Carmel, CA in the 1920s, his last years were spent in Ogunquit, ME and Cambridge, MA, He died in the latter on May 1, 1940.

Member: Salmagundi Club; Ogunquit AA.  Exhibitions:  Springville (UT) High School, 1927. In: Charlestown (MA) High School (mural). Carmel At Work and Play, p. 58; WWAA 1936-41; NY Times, 5-2-1940 (obit).

Artist Profile Page: Kingsbury, Edward R. / Categories: Landscape, Marine / Seascape

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Lauren Sansaricq (1990-) Contemporary, American

Medium: Oil on Board
Image Size: 12” x 16”
Frame Size: 18” x 22”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Lauren Sansaricq (b. 1990) 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. In 2011, 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.  Lauren was also honored with a solo show in New York at Hawthorne Fine Art that same year.

Her 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 was also featured at the Boston International Fine Arts Show.

One of Lauren’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 her work is in collections throughout the country, and is displayed beside some of the best American painters of the past.

She teaches every summer on the Hudson River Fellowship, and now resides in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Artist Profile Page: Sansaricq, Lauren / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape, Marine / Seascape

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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 Henry Yates (1845-1934) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 12” x 30”
Frame Size: 20” x 38”
Signature: Signed lower right
Frame: In a beautiful original gilded frame
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Yates lived in Auburn, New York, where he painted local views in the Finger Lakes area of New York state.  He is also known for sweeping Western panoramas, scenes of New York City, and a Battle of Gettysburg painting bought by the 1881 encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic and presented to the Soldiers Home in Bath, New York, in that year.

Artist Profile Page: Yates, William Henry / Categories: Marine / Seascape

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