Winning Bid: $185.00
“Elizabeth is best known for her marine paintings that have a solitary and sublime melancholy.”
-American Art Collector
I get to live in this beautiful, wild, infamous, and seafaring place . . . a 10,000 year-old ‘spit of sand,’ jutting out 50 miles into the North Atlantic Ocean. I get to paint it over and over and over. Thus, I paint what I love—the history, environment, and people of the Outer Cape. I use memory, experience, and imagination. I work at making paintings that have a clarity of mood, but a vague sense of place. Always thinking that less is more, I distill an image in my mind beforehand, and sometimes again when I paint it. I choose elements that are “signature” components of my work: strong use of obliques, tonal color, big skies, and a solitary feeling often described as sublime melancholy. When I am painting, my choices are made quickly, somehow knowing what “painting marks” come next.
If I am asked why I became a painter, I explain that when I was 8, I was enrolled in art classes at the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the paintings that I saw there inspired me. For the first time in my life, I saw great paintings and I was drawn to certain ones. I would explore the museum and seek out the Hudson River landscapes and the huge Lady of Shallot painting. These paintings became my imaginary world, but looking back, I realize that I was probably absorbing them. Mesmerized by their visual impact, I began to fill my mind with the desire to become an artist. As a youngster, I always seemed to be drawing, long after other children had stopped. And I kept on doing it, and then I painted, and that was amazing! I continued to paint more and more. There was no reason to stop. I fell “in love” with painting and never looked back.
Item condition: New
Total Bids Placed:
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Highest bidder was: pamet1
Bidder Name | Bidding Time | Bid | Auto |
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pamet1 | August 27, 2020 4:26 pm | $185.00 | |
skurtzman99 | August 22, 2020 11:24 pm | $175.00 | |
bbwood1 | August 22, 2020 11:24 pm | $170.00 | Auto |
bbwood1 | August 20, 2020 10:55 am | $165.00 | |
pmarmaduke | July 20, 2020 7:51 am | $155.00 | |
joroda4 | July 20, 2020 7:51 am | $150.00 | Auto |
joroda4 | July 20, 2020 7:50 am | $145.00 | Auto |
pmarmaduke | July 20, 2020 7:50 am | $135.00 | |
joroda4 | July 20, 2020 7:50 am | $125.00 | Auto |
pmarmaduke | July 20, 2020 7:50 am | $115.00 | |
joroda4 | July 20, 2020 7:49 am | $105.00 | Auto |
pmarmaduke | July 20, 2020 7:49 am | $95.00 | |
joroda4 | July 17, 2020 9:11 pm | $85.00 | |
pmarmaduke | July 17, 2020 5:10 pm | $75.00 | |
Auction started | July 17, 2020 5:00 pm |