River Gallery
Fine Art
“Whitehead, Monhegan” — Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott (1846 – 1925)
Watercolor and gouache, 7.13″ x 4″, signed lower left.
“Mt. Chase, Autumn” — Carl Sprinchorn (1887 – 1971)
Oil on masonite, 21″ x 29″, inscribed in Sprinchorn’s hand verso, estate stamp.
Mount Chase, depicted here, sits to the northeast of Mount Katahdin and Baxter State Park. It is the nearest major peak to the town of Patten, where Sprinchorn painted for much of his life. read more»
“Maine Pond” — Joseph Fiore (1925 – 2008)
Watercolor, 6 ½” x 9 ⅜” sight size, signed lower right.
Born in 1925, Fiore studied and taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. He later taught at the Philadelphia College of Art, Maryland College of Art, and the National Academy of Design. read more»
“Lake and Mountain” — William Gorman Wills (1828 – 1891)
Oil on 19th Century English artist’s board, signed lower right. 19th Century English ebony frame.
“Amalfi” — Harold Broadfield Warren (1859 – 1934)
Watercolor, 9.50″ x 8.25″ sight size, signed lower right, dated 1885.
“Venice – 1882” — Harold Broadfield Warren (1859 – 1934)
Watercolor, 3.63″ x 6.75″ sight size, signed lower right.
“Sunset Patterns, Monhegan” — Hyde Solomon (1911 – 1982)
Oil on canvas, 16″ x 20″, signed upper left, dated 1972.
Hyde Solomon studied at the Art Students League, then at the Pratt Institute and Columbia. His astractions from nature retained a core structure, amidst original color harmonies. read more»
“Swing Bridge, South Bristol” — Bragi Schut (contemporary)
Oil on panel, 24″ x 36″, signed lower right, dated 2011.
“Conche Village, Newfoundland” — John Neville (contemporary)
Oil on canvas, 18″ x 24″, signed lower right, dated 2011.
“Damariscotta” — John Neville (contemporary)
Oil on canvas, 8″ x 10″, signed lower left, dated 2009.
“Cleaning Fish, Head Harbor” — John Neville (contemporary)
Oil on canvas, 18″ x 24″, signed lower right, dated 2001.
“Conche, Northern Tip of Newfoundland” — John Neville (contemporary)
Oil on Canvas, 24″ x 36″, signed lower right, dated 2011.
“Orange Sky” — Hans Moller (1905 – 2000)
Watercolor, 7.75″ x 9.5″, sight size, signed lower right, dated 1972.
“Harvesting, Segovia, 1916” — Ernest Lawson (1873 – 1939)
Oil on canvas, 20″ x 24″, signed lower left.
Born in Nova Scotia, Lawson spent his boyhood in Ontario. In 1890, he went to New York to enroll in the Art Students League and spent time in the summers at Cos Cob, Connecticut, with his friends, the American impressionists John Twachtmann and J. Alden Weir. There, he first painted “en plein air.” read more»
“Gull Cove, Moonlight II” — Donald Holden (b. 1931)
Watercolor, 7.25″ x 10.75″, signed lower left, dated 2000.
“Monhegan Harbor II” — Donald Holden (b. 1931)
Watercolor, 7.25″ x 10.75″, signed lower left, dated 1991.
“Low Tide” — Murray Hantman (1904 – 1999)
Oil on paperboard, 8″ x 11.75″ sight size, signed lower right. Label: Marquie Gallery, New York.
Hantman entered the Art Students League in 1928, where he studied with Thomas Hart Benton and Jan Matulka. He assisted Benton with the murals for the New School for Social Research in New York and worked on WPA projects through the 1930s. read more»
“Barges, Gray Day” — Joseph Fiore (1925 – 2008)
Oil on masonite, 10″ x 14″, signed lower right, dated 1967.
“The Harbor, Monhegan” — Joseph DeMartini (1896-1984)
Mixed media, 10″ x 15″, signed lower right.
DeMartini, the son of an Alabama fisherman, studied at the National Academy of Design with Ivan Olinsky and Leon Kroll. read more»
“The Wreck at Squeaker Cove” — Joseph DeMartini (1896-1984)
Oil on canvas, 24″ x 30″, signed lower left. Label: “California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1950”. Image: the wreck of the herring seiner St. Christopher, at Squeaker Cove on Monhegan Island.
“The Harbor, Cassis” — Yarnall Abbott (1874 – 1938)
Gouache, 7 ¾” x 9 ¼” sight size. Labels: Baltimore WCC, 1923; New York WCC.
