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FANTASTIC ANTIQUE MID-CENTURY MODERN ABSTRACT OIL PAINTING ON BOARD BY REVERED CALIFORNIA PAINTER AND ILLUSTRATOR PAUL BLAINE HENRIE. (American 1932-1999).
THIS WORK DEPICTS A FIGURATIVE SEASCAPE BOAT SCENE BEAUTIFULLY RENDERED IN THICK IMPASTO PALETTE KNIFE STROKES. BLAINE IS WELL KNOWN FOR HIS CALIFORNIA MODERNIST SEASCAPES AND COASTAL SCENES. THIS PIECE IS SIGNED AND DATED 1962. EXCELLENT OVERALL CONDITION.
DIMENSIONS: 20”W x 17”H
Paul Blaine Henrie (1932 - 1999) was active/lived in California, Florida. Paul Henrie is known for Modernist marine genre, landscape, coastal scene, and whimsical painting
Born in Tampa, Florida, in 1932, Blaine Henrie became a California landscape painter, active in the Laguna Beach Art Association and the Carmel Art Association. Blaine McKinley Henrie grew up in Florida and began his art career during his teenage years. After serving in the United States Marine Corps, he traveled to Chicago, New York City, and New Orleans, working as a mural artist. By the mid-1950s, he had settled in California. He lived in Carmel at first and then moved to Laguna Beach. After opening a gallery at Main Beach in Laguna, Henrie became well-known for his watercolors depicting local coastline scenes and views of places he had traveled, including Tahiti, Mexico, and Hawaii. During the 1950s and early 1960s, he signed his art Blaine or Paul Blaine. After 1961, he signed it by Paul Blaine Henrie. In addition to producing watercolors, oil paintings, and prints, Henrie authored two art instruction books.
He and his wife arrived in Laguna Beach in 1960 with a small child, financed car, and virtually no money. From that time, having settled in Three Arch Bay, he has turned out thousands of paintings. He has also become a controversial member of the artist colony there, one of the reasons being that he makes no secret of the fact that he paints to make money--"a home in the hills, a studio at the beach, Tiffany lamps, antique automobiles, rare pool tables, etc."
On the East Coast, Edwin Barrie, Director of the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York, described Henrie as "A budding genius from California." In style, Henrie is much inspired by the work of Vincent Van Gogh, and "he often makes more money in one day of painting than Van Gogh made in his entire life."
Henrie paints rapidly, "the fastest palette knife painter in the world." Working relentlessly, he often uses watercolor and sometimes acrylic and quite often completes several paintings a day. However, they can take a year or so to dry completely. Early in his career, he painted with casein, which dried quickly and allowed him to develop his fast-paced production method.
