John Gamblin

Sitka 14

2021

Robert Gamblin’s intent as an artist is to reach for transcendence through his color-centric oil paintings that capture the majesty of light as it graces the Earth. In this series, o...

Robert Gamblin’s intent as an artist is to reach for transcendence through his color-centric oil paintings that capture the majesty of light as it graces the Earth. In this series, o...

Robert Gamblin’s intent as an artist is to reach for transcendence through his color-centric oil paintings that capture the majesty of light as it graces the Earth. In this series, o...

Robert Gamblin’s intent as an artist is to reach for transcendence through his color-centric oil paintings that capture the majesty of light as it graces the Earth. In this series, o...

Gammell Trust #W126. Signed and dated in pencil lower right: "R.H. Ives Gammell, Paris, 1917". This is a very early work and despite the fact that it is squared off for enlargement,...

In 1852, twenty-nine year old William Bradford was a failing shopkeeper in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. With a wife and child at home, Bradford, by his own admission, “spent too much time in painting to succeed” in business. Rescued from insolvency by his well-to-do in-laws, this is not the beginning of a narrative that generally leads to a happy ending. Not so with Bradford, who ultimately found international fame and fortune as a painter of arctic seascapes and dramatic marine paintings. William Bradford, the artist, was a lineal descendant of the 17th-century Separatist leader William Bradford, a founder of the Plymouth Plantation, signer of the Mayflower Compact and Governor of the Plymouth Colony. Our Bradford born to a New Bedford ship outfitter in Fairhaven, Massachusetts By the nineteenth century, this line of Bradfords were Quakers, living on the tract purchased nearly two centuries earlier by their pilgrim ancestor. Fairhaven, across the mouth of the Acushnet River from the whaling center of New Bedford was described by a New York journalist in 1857 as “the Brooklyn of New Bedford” (Home Journal, January 3, 1857). Young Bradford displayed an early predilection for the arts, but his Quaker parents were disinclined to support this particular pursuit. After working in his father’s business and then for a dry goods merchant in New Bedford, by 1849 Bradford had set up in New Bedford as a “merchant tailor” offering outfits for “those going to California,” “seamen’s clothing,” custom-tailored “piece goods...

"Aftermath Hurricane Laura" is a plein air landscape painting featuring hues of blue, green and brown. This work is oil on canvas paper, framed in a silver frame with mat measuring 23 by 25 inches. Kathryn Keller is inspired by the works of George Inness, Edward Hopper, Giorgio Morandi & Alexander Drysdale. Kathryn Keller is a painter based in New Orleans and Alexandria, Louisiana. She received a BA in Fine Art and English from the University of the South...

A modern realist painting by American artist Will Barnet from the artist series of works created to accompany the poetry of Emily Dickinson. rom Bever...