Description: Fine quality oil on board painting by well-listed New England artist, Dennis Sheehan (born 1950). Dennis Sheehan is known for his atonalist paintings of New England and this is a fine example. The painting measures 18" x 24" unframed and it is in very good condition. Painting is signed in the lower right. Painting has a nice gold frame. Frame measures 25" x 31". Frame is in very good condition. Great colors-painting is ready to hang! From Guild of Boston Artists: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.
Price: 1699 USD
Location: Dedham, Massachusetts
End Time: 2024-11-21T23:46:00.000Z
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Size: Medium
Signed: Yes
Material: Canvas
Framing: Framed
Region of Origin: New Hampshire, USA
Subject: Landscape
Type: Painting
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 18 in
Style: Impressionism
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 24 in
Time Period Produced: 2020-Now
