Hump Day Art -- Our Art Purchase

The above photo is of our new baby, Dark Woods, by Dennis Sheehan. We purchased it during our visit to the Blue Hill Bay Gallery, in Blue Hill, Maine. It actually looks better than this photo of the work, which I took with my iPhone. It is hard to appreciate the lighting of the painting with a badly lit, low-resolution photo. The painting is an oil on linen and measure about 9 by 13.5 inches.

The following is from a biography provided by the gallery on the artist: Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950, is a member of the Guild of Boston Artists, and currently lives and works in the New Hampshire countryside. His work is in major public and private collections, including the White House.

Sheehan paints in the Barbizon mode with remarkable authority and faithful adherence to his 19th century precursors. In the tradition of the Tonalist painters, Sheehan creates landscapes of mood, affected by nature's changing seasons. "My goal is to have the painting emanate light, rather than be just a surface that records the reflections of light. This is why the shadow areas are important, for it is from them that this emanation proceeds. The light areas are focal points of this effort, but the power comes from the shadows."


This is another painting at the gallery by Sheehan called Approaching Storm. It is also an oil on linen and measures 11 by 21 inches. I think it was the best piece in the gallery, but a bit out of our price range. You can view others from the gallery's web site linked above.