Maine Artist (1939-2024) Philip Barter "Wind Jammer - Boothbay Harbor"
By Philip Barter
Located in Rockport, MA
Philip Barter, born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine in 1939, has harbored a passion for art since his early years. In the 1960s, he pursued formal training under the guidance of Spanish ab...
Oil
untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert) Watercolor, 1945-1955 Signed by the artist lower left in pencil (see photo) Provenance: Estate of the artist Cond...
Watercolor
"Monhegan Island, Maine, " Edward Dufner, American Impressionism Landscape View
By Edward Dufner
Located in New York, NY
Edward Dufner (1872 - 1957) Monhegan Island, Maine Watercolor on paper Sight 16 x 20 inches Signed lower right With a long-time career as an art teacher and painter of both 'light' ...
Paper, Watercolor
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Riverside Cottage in Spring Kennebunkport Maine Pallet Knife Impasto Texture
Located in Soquel, CA
William Fisher (1891 - 1985) William Fisher was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1891. He studied at the Brooklyn Institute of Art and Science and at Pratt Institute. Following service as an ...
Canvas, Oil
"Island Inn, Monhegan Island" Vintage Coastal Maine Landscape in Oil on Canvas
By Richmond Irwin Kelsey
Located in Soquel, CA
"Island Inn, Monhegan Island" Vintage Coastal Maine Landscape in Oil on Canvas The Island Inn on Monhegan Island Maine, a beautiful landscape by Richmond Irwin Kelsey (American, 190...
Oil, Illustration Board
New England Country Side Covered Bridge Painting by Maine artist William Fisher
By William Fisher
Located in New York, NY
William Fisher (American, 1891-1985) Untitled (Covered Bridge), 20th century Oil on canvas 24 x 30 in. Signed lower right: William Fisher William Fisher was born in Brooklyn, NY in ...
Canvas, Oil
$7,200
“Evening Shadows” impressionist oil painting, village landscape, signed & framed
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Evening Shadows" by Victor Butko (1978, Moscow) is a contemporary neo-impressionist painting of Stonington Harbor, Maine, depicting a neighborhood along the harbor at dusk.
Linen, Oil
Lighthouse at the Shore — Impressionist Pen and Ink Landscape Drawing
By Laurence Sisson
Located in Soquel, CA
Lighthouse at the Shore Maine - Impressionist Original Pen and Ink Drawing Landscape Delicate landscape pen and ink line drawing by listed Maine artist Laurence Sisson (American, 19...
Paper, Permanent Marker, Ink
Industrial Mid-20th Century WPA Modern Men Working American Scene Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
An American artist, Ennis eventually moved to New York, City and to his final home place in the small fishing port of Eastport, Maine. As an impressionist artist, Ennis used charcoal...
Canvas, Oil
Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.
The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.
Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.
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