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May Issue 2009
Gallery C in
Raleigh, NC, Features Works by Harry DeMaine
Gallery C in Raleigh,
NC, will present the exhibit, Harry DeMaine, Low Tide Reflections,
featuring watercolors on paper, on view from May 8 through June
10, 2009. The exhibition features scenes from New York Harbor
and Gloucester, MA, in the 1930s and 1940s.
Born in Liverpool, England in 1880, DeMaine first began painting
while still a dry goods apprentice in his hometown, eventually
moving past the studios and galleries of Liverpool and studying
art in London and Paris in the years before World War I. After
serving in the American Field Service and the British Expeditionary
Force during the war, DeMaine emigrated to the United States in
1919 and pursued art exclusively. By 1921, DeMaine exhibited
his first one-man show in the US at Folsom Galleries in New York
City. In 1928, DeMaine began spending his summers in
Gloucester, amongst an artists' colony, teaching watercolor to
many and depicting the scenes of Gloucester's harbor, fishing
fleets and other views of the town until his death in 1952.
Art critics of his era
had the following to say:
"...His work is sensitive, refined, and he achieves rare
color quality. He had somehow managed to translate his English
watercolor accent into unmistakable Americanese..."
- The New York Sun, Mar. 16, 1940.
"...the lyrical quality of the English landscape transferred
to America, and now and then that feeling of breadth and height
which is found in the paintings of Constable."
- The Washington Post, 1941
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 919/828-3165 or visit (www.galleryc.net).
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