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Dennis Sheehan
Dennis Sheehan, "Across the Marsh", 18x24 Tonalist Landscape Oil Painting

2018

About the Item

This piece, "Across the Marsh", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 18x24 oil painting on canvas featuring a marshy green landscape at dusk. This moody painting shows tree line at the horizon with the setting sunlight glowing through and reflecting in the water in the foreground. About the artist: Dennis Sheehan's work is often described as reminiscent of the great masters of the Barbizon School, in France in the 19th century, and the American Tonalist. Born in Boston in 1950, he has works in major public and private collections, including the White House. His work has been featured in many publications including the featured cover of American Artist. Dennis Sheehan received his training in the best traditions of the Boston School, studying at the Vesper George School of Art and the Montserrat School of Visual Art. He also studied with two of R.H. Gammell's former students, Robert Cormier and Richard Whitney. Like his great nineteenth century predecessor George Inness, whose influence is consciously acknowledged, Sheehan employs the dark palette and thickly pigmented surfaces of the French Barbizon School. Sheehan, like Inness before him, eschews picturesque scenery in the interest of evoking atmospherics. Also like Inness, Sheehan's paintings are produced in the studio from his imagination. 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. Sheehan's pastoral paintings evoke the moody beauty and deep peace of nature. His goal is to have the painting emanate light, rather than just a surface that records the reflections of light the power comes from the shadows. Mysterious and breathtaking, his paintings capture the beholder and transport them into serene landscapes that have reverence for nature's poetic and changing seasons.
  • Creator:
    Dennis Sheehan (1950, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2018
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 18 in (45.72 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)
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  • Framing:
    Framing Options Available
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  • Gallery Location:
    Saratoga Springs, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU146228824302
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