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Don Stone

[ Oils and Watercolor ]

Don Stone has been regarded as one New England’s finest contemporary impressionist painters for decades. Although he’s a master watercolorist, his first love is oil, and his landscapes have been exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Stone is a native of Gloucester, Mass., where he grew up surrounded by the work of Cape Ann’s famed plein air artists. Their influence is apparent in the sensual qualities of his work and his choice of subjects, which capture the essence of America’s North Atlantic coast.

For Stone, painting is not a job but a way of life. Since 1958, he has lived on Maine’s Monhegan Island, staying year-round for ten years of those years, and now from every May to October. “Monhegan is more home to me than anywhere,” he says. On the  island there’s no shortage of subjects to paint: apple blossoms against the dark blue sea, beachcombers searching for sea glass, hollyhocks beside old porches, children picking wildflowers, and working fishermen. He is drawn to mud puddles and scavenging gulls. “My subjects are not necessarily pretty,” says Stone who doesn’t attempt a literal translation but rather realism that captures the setting’s values, shapes, colors and mood.

Don Stone, Exeter, N.H.| 603 778-2974 | info@donstone.com
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Pricing: From $1,500 to $2,000 (6” x 8”) to $18,000 and up (20” x 30”)