Hale Johnson
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Wester Brookoil on panel, 18" x 36"Wester Brook
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Shovel Downoil on panel, 10" x 24"Shovel Down
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MIsted Mountainsoil on panel, 10" x 24"MIsted Mountains
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A Home to Manyoil on panel, 18" x 36"A Home to Many
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Everett Ryan's Farmoil on panel, 18" x 31"Everett Ryan's Farm
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Tobacco Barnoil on canvas, 14" x 30"Tobacco Barn
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By Squeaker Coveoil on panel, 8" x 16"By Squeaker Cove
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A Day at the Beachoil on panel, 18" x 36"A Day at the Beach
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Island Cottageoil on panel, 5" x 9"Island Cottage
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Put on Another Cup, Sold
oil on panel, 12" x 24"
Put on Another Cup, Sold -
Halifax Farm, Sold
oil on panel, 6" x 12"
Halifax Farm, Sold -
Woolpack Inn, England, Sold
oil on panel, 18" x 36"
Woolpack Inn, England, Sold -
Victoria's View, SoldVictoria's View, Sold
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Between Winter and Spring, Sold
oil on panel, 20" x 40"
Between Winter and Spring, Sold -
Yorkshire Dales, SoldYorkshire Dales, Sold
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Rusted Tin, Sold
oil on panel, 18" x 36"
Rusted Tin, Sold
Biography
Hale Johnson has been an established oil landscapist for over four decades. His paintings are of the American Realist tradition, often likened to artist Andrew Wyeth and Eric Sloan.
From his rural home in western Massachusetts, Hale intentionally seeks locations for his work that evoke a strong emotional response. Concerned primarily with the history of the land, Hale’s compositions often feature weather beaten barns, boats, and well-used farm equipment. These paintings represent a quiet restrain and delicate sensitivity to detail.
Signature to Johnson’s work is a fascination with texture – particularly that of paint peeling wood and cragged rocks. He smudges, speckles and layers the paint in order to achieve this textural quality, an application process he has developed over the course of his career. Each of Johnson’s paintings balance a precise rendering of surface with areas of loosely brushed strokes. This blending of techniques serves to relive the eye from the intensity of his textural detail, providing the relational distances which give the pieces their wonderful feeling of space and depth.
Hale Johnson’s paintings capture the countryside of Western Massachusetts, coastal Maine and Northwestern England.