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Images of the Blue Hill Peninsula
In honor of the 250th anniversary of Blue Hill's founding,
here is a selection of the gallery's
most delightful views of Blue Hill and Environs.
Exhibited July 1 to August 15, 2012
Artist's Reception, Friday, July 27, 5-7pm
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Blue Hill, Fitz Hugh Lane, Circa 1850
Blue Hill, 1920
Blue Hill, 2010
Kenneth Knowles
Blue Hill in Autumn
24 x 30 Oil on Linen
Carl Gordon Cutler (1873-1945)
“View of Eggemoggin Reach”
Watercolor on paper, 17.5x 24.5”
Framed 30 x 37
Carl Gordon Cutler was born in 1873 in Massachusetts. Though educated in the painting of portraits in oil, his two major artistic passions would become the landscape of Maine and the use of watercolor. His watercolors, influenced by Fauve color and John Marin's forms, were exhibited in Europe and the eastern United States, in Boston; Philadelphia; the Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, both in New York City; and, farther west, at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; as well as Paris, France. Cutler had more than a dozen one-man shows in New York City and Boston.
Cutler studied in the late 1890s at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where influence of the old masters on the painting of oil portraits was strong. He also worked at the Academie Julian in Paris. Cutler had some exhibition success there, but it would take several years after his return to America before his mature style would appear. Cutler first painted the Maine coast soon after the Armory Show. By the mid-1920s, he was painting watercolors of the state's landscape exclusivelyviews of Deer Isle, Mount Desert, the Camden Hills and--for thirty summers, Eggemoggin Reach, where Cutler had a cottage. The artist received the plaudits of the critics and acclaim from the public. He spent the last 30 years of his career focusing entirely on painting Maine's Penobscot Bay region.
Carl Cutler was a respected color theorist. In his 1923 book Modern Color, with Stephen C. Pepper, he explained a detailed system involving a scale of 168 colors, telling how to imitate the appearance of natural light through their use. He also discussed emotion as a significant element in artistic creation. In 1994, the Vose Gallery, in Boston, put out a color brochure, Carl Gordon Cutler Along the Maine Coast 1873-1945. Also in the 1990s, the Babcock Gallery, in New York City, published Carl Gordon Cutler, American Modernist Rediscovered, a paperback with forty-four color reproductions and an essay. In 1998, the Portland Museum of Art, in Maine, held an exhibition, "Modern Color": Maine Watercolors by Carl Gordon Cutler, comprised of sixteen out of a total of fifty-nine Cutler watercolors bequeathed a year earlier to the Museum by Mr. and Mrs. James E. Haas. Also in 1998, the College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, exhibited fourteen of Cutler's Maine coastal landscapes painted in the South Brooksville area on the Blue Hill Peninsula.
Carl Gordon Cutler (1873-1945)
“Umbrella Pine”
Watercolor on paper, 19.5x 24.5”
Framed 30 x 37
Carl Gordon Cutler (1873-1945)
“View Through the Trees”
Watercolor on paper, 17.5x 24.5”
Framed 30 x 37
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Donald Allen Mosher
Donald Mosher grew up on the North Shore and has lived in Rockport since 1980. A descendant of ship builders from Nova Scotia and farmers from Maine, Don is naturally drawn to the power of the sea and the tranquility of the New England countryside.
His interest in art began after winning his first award at the age of eight, and he has since won over 200 awards for his work. A 1968 graduate of Vesper George School of Art, where he met his wife Christine, Don has been a painting instructor and demonstrator and has been featured in several national publications including Yankee and American Artist Magazine. His paintings hang in the permanent collections of large corporations, institutions, banks, and private homes throughout the United States and abroad including the Peabody Museum, Portland Art museum, and the State House in Boston.
Donald Allen Mosher
Quiet Cove
Oil on Canvas 11 x 14
Donald Allen Mosher
Sailing, Blue Hill Bay
Oil on Canvas 10 x 14
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Mark Haltof
Mark Haltof is a contemporary realist painter with over 30 years experience and a background that includes training in New York at the Arts Students League, the National Academy, as well as several Paris ateliers. He began painting in Maine in the mid 70's with a group of artist friends who came for summers to paint Maine's rocky coast and its many islands. Because he draws his inspiration from those places and things close to him, he eventually relocated to Maine in 1984. He has shown his work in galleries in New York, California, Florida, North Carolina, and Maine, and was the subject of a feature article in American Artist Magazine. His work is represented in The Portland Museum Art (The Elizabeth Noyce Collection) and in many private and corporate collections throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Mark Haltof
Blue Hill Autumn
Oil on Canvas 18 x 28 (26 x 36)
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Maine painter Richard Roflow loves to paint the intimate details of the landscape that he encounters on near his home and studio on Deer Isle, as well as the iconic images of Acadia National Park. He came by his love of painting nature early in life, though his formal education was at the Cincinnati Art Academy in the 1950’s.
Now over 50 years later most of his paintings are inspired by the drama of the Maine coast and coastal weather. "He rarely paints on a sunny day. It's always misty, foggy, and dramatic. He paints those days that Mainers know as being a Maine day," said Barbara Entzminger, whose Bar Harbor Birdnest Gallery exhibited many of Roflow's paintings in years past. "I consider myself a light painter. I try to paint the light I see and how it creates distances," Roflow said, explaining the prominence given to plays of light in his compositions.
"Roflow captures the qualities of atmosphere and its light-color shows which most of us hardly notice," writes Fran Watson. "Tiny droplets of moisture in the air act as color magnifiers, bathing landscape in eerie glows of uncommon intensity for brief moments, transforming the ordinary into the exotic. The most familiar objects attain an importance through his eyes as he renders them with a combination of softness and accuracy. His depictions are tinted fragments of hushed time, caught in the manner of masters like Corot and Daubigny whose visions changed rural simplicity into mythological magic."
Roflow, a two-time winner in the National Park Academy of the Arts competition, Arts for the Parks was recently honored as the Maine artist featured in the Presidential suite of the Bar Harbor Regency reserved for President Obama and his family for their visit in July, 2010.
Sundown, Deer Isle
Richard Roflow
Gouache, 23 x 16
Richard Roflow
Autumn Splendor
Guache 21 x 29
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Kenneth Knowles
Kenneth J. Knowles is a well established talent, known widely throughout New England for his work in landscape impressionism. On a normal day, Knowles spends four to eight hours outside working on the beginning stages of one or two paintings. At any given time, he has as many as 15 projects in progress. He then brings the paintings into his studio for what can be days or months worth of 'finish' before he feels they are complete. "There are several ways to finish a painting, from just a few touches to weeks of adding texture and depth."
Ken was 17 years old when he sought out artists to teach him including well-known Rockport artists T.M. Nicholas and Stapleton Kearns. Later he studied also under John Terelak. He is a member of the Rockport Art Association. His awards include the Silver Brush Award from the American Art Association, the Edward and Elizabeth Schlemm Memorial Award for exceptional landscape in oil, and the Freda Gallery Award. Born in 1968, he is one of the strongest young American landscape painters.
Kenneth Knowles
Blue Hill Spring
20 x 24 Oil on Board
Blue Hill Autumn
12 x 24 oil on canvas
Blue Hill Reds
20 x 24 oil on canvas
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Dennis Poirier
Dennis Poirier grew up in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He began his studies Butera School of Art in Boston, then returned to Cape Ann to study with John C. Terelak and Ted Goerschner at the newly formed Gloucester Academy of Fine Arts. Later he moved to New York City to study at the Arts Student League winning the Charles J. Romans Memorial Award at his very first national exhibit at the Allied Artists of America Show.
Dennis is a member of many prestigious art associations including the Oil Painters of America, North Shore Arts Association,Rockport Art Association, the Copley Society of Art (a Copley Artist), the Hudson Valley Arts Association, and the Academic Artists Association.
Winter Afternoon, Stonington, Maine
Dennis Poirier
24 x 30 Oil on Canvas
Moonrise, East Blue Hill
Dennis Poirier
16 x 20 Oil on Canvas
Summer Stroll, Pendelton House, Blue Hill
Dennis Poirier
16 x 20 Oil on Canvas
Winter in Blue Hill
Dennis Poirier
20 x 24 Oil on Canvas
St Mary Star of the Sea, Stonington
Dennis Poirier
12 x 16 Oil on Board
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Swedish born artist, Bertil Whyman, paints coastal Maine with a strong emphasis on color and light. Depicting the atmosphere of the scene is very important to Whyman who attempts "to rediscover who we are by portraying images of where we have been." The old houses, docks and boats, that fill his paintings, represent the care and quality that went into hand crafted items of years ago. Inspired by Vermeer, Manet, Homer and Sargent, Whyman is a self-taught artist whose paintings have been exhibited at galleries throughout Maine, Maryland and Vermont.
Bertil Whyman
Stonington Waterfront
18 x 35 Oil on Linen
Bertil Whyman
Leaving Stonington
16 x 24 Oil on Linen
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Karen Cashman
Having grown up in a family of oil painters who spent summers in Maine, Karen Cashman continues this tradition by returning to Maine every year. She has painted landscapes and coastal scenes en plein air for over 15 years, accumulating knowledge of nature for work in her studio as well. A Connecticut resident, Karen received her formal education at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts and has participated in workshops with Mike Graves, Chris Magadini, and David Lussier. An Elected Artist member of Lyme Art Association and Kent Art Association, she is also a member of Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society, Deer Isle Artists Association, Housatonic Art League, Society of Creative Artists of Newtown and Washington Art Association.
Stonington View
Karen Cashman
9 x 12 Oil on Canvas
Low Tide, Stonington
Karen Cashman
11 x 14 Oil on Canvas
SOLD
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Diane Scott was born in Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada and attended three Schools of Art in Toronto, Canada. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Herts College of Art and Design in St. Albans, England, 1985. She also studied for 6 years at North River Arts Society with John Kilroy 1992 -1998 and attended workshops with Lois Griffel, Tom Browning, Kevin MacPherson, Carolyn Anderson, Dan Gerhartz, Scott Burdick, Mark Daily, Don Stone and Randall Sexton.
On Reflection
12 x 9 Oil
Diane Scott
$780 Framed
Orland Village, Maine
14 x 18 Oil
Diane Scott
Stonington Blues
9 x 12 Oil
Diane Scott
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Briannow spends his summers in the Blue Hill area after emigrating from England where he began his art career as a technical illustrator ; he took further training in commercial art before emigrating to western Canada in 1971 before finally moving to Maine. Brian spends much of his leisure time exploring the local landscape, recording his travels with pencil sketches and photographs. He became very interested in learning the watercolor medium and took instruction from several notable watercolor artists. His work was represented in galleries in Edmonton, and later in Vancouver, and in several towns on Vancouver Island. After returning to England in 1996 Brian began using the fine arts in his activities program in care home facilities which was so successful that he decided to use it as the basis of his book, “Activities for Older People,” was published by Butterworth Heinemann in 2000. He has a summer residence in coastal Maine.
Acadian Winter
by Brian Banks
Camp Wash
by Brian Banks
Oil on Board 11 x 14
Tidal Patterns, Peter's Cove
by Brian Banks
Watercolor, 11x 14 Framed
Blue Hill Estuary
by Brian Banks
Watercolor, 11x 14 Framed
East Blue Hill Post Office
by Brian Banks
Watercolor, 11x 14 Framed
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Charles McCaughtry
Charles McCaughtry, born in Niles, Ohio, graduated from Capital University with majors in Art and History. He subsequently earned a M.A.Ed. degree from the Hartford Art School. Charley has furthered his studies at the Masterclass, Rangemark, Birch Harbor, Maine, and with notables such as Barse Miller, Ed Betts, and Chen Chi.
A pure landscape and the interactions of earth, water, sky, and light are the major themes of his work. Charley has had forty one-man exhibitions and has participated in over two hundred national, regional, and special exhibitions. His paintings have been honored with over thirty awards. His paintings are avidly collected and can be found in many institutional, corporate, foundation and private collections in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
High Tide, Blue Hill
Charles McCaughtry
Watercolor 21x29 Framed
Sunrise, Isle au Haut
Charles McCaughtry
Watercolor 37x49 Framed
High Tide, East Blue Hill
Charles McCaughtry
Watercolor 21x29
SOLD
Low Tide, East Blue Hill
Charles McCaughtry
Watercolor 21x29 Framed
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