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SPECIAL OFFERING! A New Section of our all time favorite images.
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We are offering a number of our most popular images in special sizes on both paper and canvas at very deep discounts for thirty days.
For example:
Only SIXTY-EIGHT Dollars! Otter Cliffs, Acadia Nat Park , 5 x 7", limited number , by Henry Isaacs
Our Most Popular, our most sought after prints! Now reduced to a fabulous affordable price through March 31, OR until print run finishes. After this offering finishes , the price returns to $185.
Check these out soon. You will not see better discounts on these , ever!
Explore our Square Gems and 8 x 10's.
We add new images to these rosters frequently
$75. and $100. these sell out quickly.
Remember that only Five prints of each image have been produced.
Some definitions:
SQUARE GEMS! $100. each. Ten x Ten Inches with a one inch border.
Each one is limited to only five prints each and then they are finished!
Purchase them while you can.. These will never be discounted.
8 x 10" Images: $75. each Only 5 of each produced : Then they are Gone! - all are seventy-five dollars each and these will never be discounted.
OVERSTOCK These are Perfect prints in every way, except- one simple fact: we printed too many! Prices are set to reduce our inventory on that image. Forty nine dollars and up.
Visit and return often to our 'Discontinued' section to get terrific deals on wonderful, unique, sometimes one-of-a-kind prints, or ones that just didn't make out it in the big marketplace!
Please be aware that certain parts of the country are being affected more severely than others by the disruptions in the U.S. Postal Service here in the Northeast. Vermont has been hit hard. We have not been able to predict these slowdowns, nor do we have control. We are shifting our largest prints and all canvas orders to Fedex .Please include a telephone contact whenever possible. There is no additional charge at present for these upgrades.
Thanks for your patience!
Any purchase is fully exchangeable or refundable if on receipt the print or painting is disappointing for any reason whatsoever. The studio will fully refund all costs for return shipping and insurance fees so long as you provide tracking numbers and the print or painting is received back in good condition.
Announcement
SPECIAL OFFERING! A New Section of our all time favorite images.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/HenryIsaacs?ref=seller-platform-mcnav§ion_id=32873205
We are offering a number of our most popular images in special sizes on both paper and canvas at very deep discounts for thirty days.
For example:
Only SIXTY-EIGHT Dollars! Otter Cliffs, Acadia Nat Park , 5 x 7", limited number , by Henry Isaacs
Our Most Popular, our most sought after prints! Now reduced to a fabulous affordable price through March 31, OR until print run finishes. After this offering finishes , the price returns to $185.
Check these out soon. You will not see better discounts on these , ever!
Explore our Square Gems and 8 x 10's.
We add new images to these rosters frequently
$75. and $100. these sell out quickly.
Remember that only Five prints of each image have been produced.
Some definitions:
SQUARE GEMS! $100. each. Ten x Ten Inches with a one inch border.
Each one is limited to only five prints each and then they are finished!
Purchase them while you can.. These will never be discounted.
8 x 10" Images: $75. each Only 5 of each produced : Then they are Gone! - all are seventy-five dollars each and these will never be discounted.
OVERSTOCK These are Perfect prints in every way, except- one simple fact: we printed too many! Prices are set to reduce our inventory on that image. Forty nine dollars and up.
Visit and return often to our 'Discontinued' section to get terrific deals on wonderful, unique, sometimes one-of-a-kind prints, or ones that just didn't make out it in the big marketplace!
Please be aware that certain parts of the country are being affected more severely than others by the disruptions in the U.S. Postal Service here in the Northeast. Vermont has been hit hard. We have not been able to predict these slowdowns, nor do we have control. We are shifting our largest prints and all canvas orders to Fedex .Please include a telephone contact whenever possible. There is no additional charge at present for these upgrades.
Thanks for your patience!
Any purchase is fully exchangeable or refundable if on receipt the print or painting is disappointing for any reason whatsoever. The studio will fully refund all costs for return shipping and insurance fees so long as you provide tracking numbers and the print or painting is received back in good condition.
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Dingning on Dec 19, 2020
5 out of 5 starsThis is an original hand drawing . Thanks for being so real. Like it
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Carole on Mar 2, 2021
5 out of 5 starsTo say this painting in beautiful is an understatement - it is stunning and brings such joy to us each and every day. Everyone who sees it raves about the colours and the wonderful sense of movement - you can almost feel the breeze in our hair as it catches the sails of the boats! Thank you for sharing your artistic talents with us, Henry. Cannot wait to receive your painting of Popham Beach which I recently purchased as well. You capture Maine so beautifully - thank you.
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Sandra on Feb 22, 2021
5 out of 5 starsAbsolutely beautiful, great color saturation. Highly recommend!
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C on Feb 18, 2021
5 out of 5 starsSuch a beautiful print of my favorite place on earth. Can't wait to frame it!
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Ellen on Feb 13, 2021
5 out of 5 starsLove the print! Thanks so much! The paper used and the colors are vivid and bold. Framing next! Reminds me of my grandfather in his garden.
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Alexandra on Feb 4, 2021
5 out of 5 starsBeautiful painting and Henry was outstanding and patient when we were having shipping difficulties! He sent us a new print with no issues when the first print arrived a little bent. Thank you again, Henry!
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Beth on Jan 26, 2021
5 out of 5 starsBeautiful print! Henry was a kind and responsive communicator throughout choosing and delivering this special gift.
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J on Jan 25, 2021
5 out of 5 starsThe print is beautiful. The artist takes care to include framing instruction so as to preserve the quality and life of the print. Eager to frame and hang in our home. Didn't ship on time but the adjusted delivery date was just ahead of Christmas, and it did arrive then as promised, AND with a bonus beautiful small print to make up for the delay. Very thoughtful.
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About HenryIsaacs
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Vermont Studio
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Islesford, Little Cranberry Island Studio
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Inside the Studio
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A Very Big Painting, 10 feet x 12 feet
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Winter Painting
HENRY ISAACS. FINE ART, Paintings and Prints
The art of Henry Isaacs: From place to painting
By Daniel Kany
"Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems."
--Winslow Homer
Henry Isaacs’ painting, Cove, Cranberry Island, Maine, folds along a horizon line. Above is a patchwork sky that starts off butter white and beige; it then reaches into cool cerulean and misty blue gray skeins punctuated by warm pinks blossoming up into the firmament. Below is the same sky reflected in the water but rounded by a cove of verdant land and punctuated by peninsula fingers and some green trees that zigzag past the far middle ground into the quilted sky. The far shore starts solid on the left but while it grows in painted density, its colors dissolve to meld with the sky seen above and reflected below.
It is a painting primarily comprising the immaterial sky and its reflection on the water. Yet the physicality of Isaac’s dappled passages sets the seemingly simple scene dancing between areas of color, the solidity of a few bits of inaccessible land, a lusciously painted surface and a set of questions about place and painting.
These new paintings by Isaacs seem simple but they have the strength to slow your eyes on the crawling edges of the flat forms. They take you along the land but without a path and they bring your eyes and thoughts back and forth between the saturated solidity of the terra firma and the light-inspired color theatrics of excitable skies.
Isaacs’ paintings begin with a conversation between traditional landscape and high Modernism. This seems like an easy-going meeting place, especially since it so often takes place under bright skies with a soft breeze blowing in over the ocean. Isaacs welcomes viewers with his lively flickers of color popping all over the thick and chewy surfaces loaded by a hand that obviously loves to paint.
Despite their easygoing introduction, however, Isaacs’ canvases dig deep through the culture of painting and present themselves – no matter how handsome – with serious intellectual heft.
Like the Impressionists, Isaacs generally doesn’t use black. For the Impressionists, this was theoretical dedication to the idea of emulating human perception in terms of light (rather than color) and that black is the absence of light.
But Isaacs is a colorist – not a painter of atmospheric light.
While he is no Impressionist, Isaacs engages in a visual dialogue with Impressionist painting – and consequently with New England plein-air painting in general.
Reaching to art responding to Impressionism, Isaacs opens the door to Cezanne, Fauvism, Homer and the Modernist moment.
Homer might sound out of place here, but he and the Impressionists were radical – and successful – revolutionaries who led the way to major changes in painting. They discarded prevailing technique (notably glazing) and sought more direct painting.
Isaacs’ paintings are so aesthetically appealing and well-executed that they need no introduction for anyone to enjoy them, but they also converse brilliantly with the history of landscape painting relevant to New England.
There is dialogue all through Isaacs’ paintings – beginning with how they are started en plein-air and then are mostly painted in the studio. In other words, at some point Isaacs shifts from observation to following his sensibilities to make the strongest painting possible. This is a shift much like the denouement in a film: We start with background and place, then there is a major transformation and the priority switches to finding the means of resolution.
This theatrical narrative is the narrative of Modernism: It takes you from fiction to reality – in this case, from a distant place to the actual painting in front of you.
As brisk and quick as they first appear, Isaacs’ paintings are often heavily painted, layered and glazed. It’s counter-intuitive that so much paint can feel so fresh, but it makes sense when we consider the work that emerged in the wake of Impressionism, in particular Van Gogh, Matisse and Abstract Expressionism.
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Henry Isaacs
Owner, Artist
Henry Isaacs EDUCATION Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. MFA 1982 Rhode Island School of Design. B.F.A. 1973 TEACHING Islesford Workshops, Islesford, Maine 2008-2016. Professor, Painting, Printmaking,
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Daniel Kany
Portland, ME
Author, Art Historian, Curator, Art Critic
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