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Sally SwatlandBreaking SurfPainted 2008
Painted 2008
$23,500
£17,758.17
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Blessed with natural artistic ability and finding encouragement from her family at an early age, Sally Swatland has traveled the proper paths to find herself in a unique place: the foremost American woman painting children at the seashore. With a romanticized nod to yesteryear, Swatland's characters are innocent and fair, in an array of matching springtime and summery apparel. Adept with brush and palette knife, she blends many artistic influences and styles into her own unique presentations.
This painting features a fair-haired young girl dipping her feet in the shallow waters along a rocky shoreline. The sea behind is a brilliant blue with small white-capped waves rolling into shore. The brushwork alternates between smooth strokes in the child's form and dress and more impasto work and sharper edges on the rocks and in the more active parts of the sea. The overall effect is that of being at the sea and finding serenity in the contrast between the calm shore and the always moving ocean.
The seas' eternal inspiration form a common backdrop to many of Swatland's artistic works. Born in Washington D.C., her family moved to Greenwich, Connecticut and often summered at Tod's Point, Long Island Sound. She would go on to become an art major at Mount Saint Vincent College, study under Robert Schulz in the Art Students League of New York, and come to be represented early by Alistair Stair in his New York and Florida galleries. Combined with exhibitions and commissions, and through a prominent New York Gallery, Swatland is now widely recognized.
Full of pleasant details and excellently proportioned characters, many modeled by her daughters, Swatland's ability to communicate emotion and context within her visual scenes is exceptional. They are near universal yet somehow very personal to each viewers' experience. She explores the beaches and settings of her own childhood with her family, and has traveled extensive through the beaches of Southern California as well for inspiration.
- Creator:Sally Swatland (1946)
- Creation Year:Painted 2008
- Dimensions:Height: 37.69 in (95.74 cm)Width: 43.75 in (111.13 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Costa Mesa, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2139211947672
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