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THBJohn Swan (b. 1948) Three Mile Rapids - Merrimac River
Lot 13
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Copley Fine Art Auctions
65 Sharp Street
Hingham, MA 02043
United States
Copley Fine Art Auctions is the world's leading American sporting art auction company. Located in Hingham, MA, Copley specializes in antique decoys and 19th- and 20th-century American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Principal Stephen O'Brien Jr., a fourth-generation sportsman with a refined colle...Read more
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- Lot Description
John Swan (b. 1948)
Three Mile Rapids - Merrimac River, 1992
signed "John Swan" lower right
oil on board, 23 by 35 1/2 in.
John Swan was born and raised in Maine and studied at the University of New Hampshire. In the 1980s, Swan was painting local rural landscapes until he completed a flyfishing painting that appeared on the cover of "Gray’s Sporting Journal." This early success with a sporting scene ensured that hunting and fishing subjects would be an integral part of Swan’s work in the years to come. Considered one of America’s foremost sporting and wildlife artists, Swan is equally adept in watercolor and oils. His paintings bring to life fishing and hunting trips to places as far afield as the bonefishing mecca of the Bahamas and Canada’s Gaspe Peninsula. “I paint wherever I can fish,” he admits. The result is a body of spectacularly immediate works set in the world’s premier sporting destinations. Based on firsthand experience, and often "en plein air," Swan’s paintings are imbued with freshness: the energy of a tarpon struggling against the line or the quietude of a hunter’s early dawn preparations.
Among his distinctions are one-man shows at the American Museum of Fly Fishing, the King Gallery, and the Stephen O'Brien Jr. Fine Arts Gallery. His awards include being named Artist of the Year three times by the Atlantic Salmon Federation, the Ducks Unlimited International Artist of the Year in 1987, and the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Artist of the Year in 2017. He has illustrated numerous books, including Joseph Bates' classic "Atlantic Salmon Fishing" and Thomas McGuanes’s anthology "Live Water."Please email condition report requests to leah@copleyart.com. Any condition statement given is a courtesy to customers, Copley will not be held responsible for any errors or omissions. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition.Condition
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