"Maine Windjammers" (study)  6"x8" oil on linen © 2012 Brian Kliewer  SOLD

"Maine Windjammers" (detail)  © 2012 Brian Kliewer

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Minimum bid is $150.  Bidding will close at 6:00 PM Eastern Time (US), Wednesday, March 21.

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About the painting...

My barque is wafted to the strand
  By breath Divine;
    And on the helm there rests a hand
      Other than mine.

Henry Alford

I like these words by Henry Alford and thought they fit this painting particularly well.

I hope to do a larger verison of the painting at some point.  In fact, many of these small paintings are meant as studies for larger works.  Sometimes those develop and sometimes they don't.  I often don't know which ones will work best or move me to do a larger piece.  On other occasions it's immediately known and from the very start the small piece truly is a study for a larger work.  The nature of the ships themselves in this series leads me to believe many of these studeis would work well on a larger scale. 

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