Anthony Dunphy

Beach Car, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

2023

A nostalgic scene featuring a classic Woody wagon with a surfboard, guitar and coolers ready for a beautiful day at the beach. This scene has been created using professional grade ac...

A sailboat has been beached high and dry after a fierce battle with the elements. Time will tell if she will float again. This seascape has been created...

This contemporary coastal painting by Carol Young features a cool blue palette and depicts a scene of a blue dinghy boat on a sandy shoreline. The painting is signed by the artist in...

“Mary Robertson’s joyous and meditative paintings are are colorful simulations of contentment and sacred play.” Wayne Thiebaud. Steeped in the Bay Area figurative movement, Mary Robertson’s oeuvre focuses on an area she knows intimately—Northern California's Russian River, where she has been painting for over 25 years. The region’s beaches, umbrellas, floats, and figures are iconic in the quiet and intimate paintings of Robertson, but it is the afternoon Bay Area light that takes center stage, as it interacts with the landscape to create the real magic. Her oil paintings and watercolors have an affinity with the American Realists, the Impressionists, and the Pointillists such as Seurat. When taking in a Robertson scene, there is a sense of time standing still, and being bathed in a lazy California summer glow that doesn’t fade. 'Two Boats...