Dennis Sheehan, "Sundown Symmetry", Moody Tonalist Landscape Oil Painting
View Similar Items
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 11
Dennis SheehanDennis Sheehan, "Sundown Symmetry", Moody Tonalist Landscape Oil Painting 2018
2018
About the Item
- Creator:Dennis Sheehan (1950, American)
- Creation Year:2018
- Dimensions:Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Saratoga Springs, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1462211422592
Dennis Sheehan
Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. He has works in major public and private collections including the White House. Sheehan paints in the Barbizon mode with 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
About the Seller
5.0
Vetted Seller
These experienced sellers undergo a comprehensive evaluation by our team of in-house experts.
Established in 2009
1stDibs seller since 2021
72 sales on 1stDibs
More From This SellerView All
- Dennis Sheehan, "Across the Marsh", 18x24 Tonalist Landscape Oil PaintingBy Dennis SheehanLocated in Saratoga Springs, NYThis 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 hori...Category
2010s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
MaterialsOil, Canvas
$4,680 Sale Price20% Off - Dennis Sheehan, "Changing Seasons" 12x12 Autumn Landscape Oil Painting on CanvasBy Dennis SheehanLocated in Saratoga Springs, NYThis piece, "Changing Seasons", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas featuring a marshy green landscape in hazy autumn light. Changing foliage highlights the trees in colors of rusted reds and ochres, reflecting in the water below. 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...Category
2010s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Dennis Sheehan, "Glowing Hedgerow", Moody Tonalist Landscape Oil PaintingBy Dennis SheehanLocated in Saratoga Springs, NYThis piece, "Glowing Hedgerow", 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 hori...Category
2010s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Dennis Sheehan, "August Afternoon", Tonalist Landscape Tree Oil PaintingBy Dennis SheehanLocated in Saratoga Springs, NYThis piece, "August Afternoon", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas featuring a traditional marshy green landscape just before dusk. Cool afternoon light surro...Category
2010s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
MaterialsOil, Canvas
- Dennis Sheehan, "Winter's Warmth", Tonalist Landscape Mountain Tree Oil PaintingBy Dennis SheehanLocated in Saratoga Springs, NYThis piece, "Winter's Warmth", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas featuring a traditional snowy landscape just before dusk. Warm afternoon light surrounds fol...Category
2010s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Dennis Sheehan, "Evening Prelude", Moody Sunset Tonalist Landscape Oil PaintingBy Dennis SheehanLocated in Saratoga Springs, NYThis piece, "Evening Prelude", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 14x18 oil painting on canvas featuring a marshy green landscape at dusk. This moody painting shows tree line at the horiz...Category
2010s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
You May Also Like
- "Mountain Labyrinths"By John F. CarlsonLocated in Lambertville, NJAshley John is proud to offer this artwork by: John Fabian Carlson (1874/75 - 1945) John F. Carlson was one of the leading American landscape p...Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- "After the Rain"By John Francis MurphyLocated in Lambertville, NJSigned Lower Right Known for his Tonalist-style landscape paintings, John Francis Murphy was referred to as the "American Corot" because of his similarity to the painting style of ...Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Navajos at RestBy Edgar PayneLocated in Palm Desert, CA"Navajos at Rest" is an oil on canvas painting by Edgar Alwin Payne. The painting is signed at the lower right, "Edgar Payne". The framed piece measures 25 1/4...Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Figurative Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Cetaldo (Italy) In The RainBy Anna HornbyLocated in Brecon, PowysOil on canvas of a Italian Rural scene by this well known and much exhibited artist. Cetaldo In The Rain catches the atmosphere of a gentle rain on a hot summers day. Anna Hornby (1914 - 1996) studied art in Florence with landscape and flower painter Aubrey Waterfield in 1934, and later that year enrolled at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London where she studied under Francis Ernest Jackson...Category
1960s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
MaterialsOil, Canvas
- Indian EncampmentBy Ralph Albert BlakelockLocated in New York, NYSigned lower left in arrowhead: R.A. Blakelock (NBI-1611-II)Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Autumn, 1923By Bruce CraneLocated in Milford, NHA splendid Autumn tonalist landscape by American artist Bruce (Robert Bruce) Crane (1857-1937). Crane was born in New York City, and as an artist, was influenced by the French Barbizon school of...Category
1920s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
Recently Viewed
View AllMore Ways To Browse
Dark Moody Oil Landscape Painting
Robert Sheehan
French Auction
Boston Landscape Paintings
Framed Vintage Landscape
Chance Vintage
Oil Paintings Impressionism Landscapes
Contemporary Art For Sale
Impressionist Beach
Impressionist Art Beach
Flowers Spring
Dark Sky
Africa Landscape
A Williams
George Of La
Old Couple
Landscape Painting Boats
Landscape Art In Gilt Frame