Belmar Boatyard Acrylic Print

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This is a lobster boat painted on location in 2000. I was in New Jersey to visiting my parents who were selling the house I grew up in, and were planning to move to Georgia to live with my sister. I slept in my old bedroom and painted my favorite hangouts at almost every day for a week. One exception was the day I took the train to New York to catch up with my brother who worked on the 40th floor of the World Trade Center #2. He left work early and took me to a Yankees game. That was on 9/1/2000.

Donald Maier graduated from the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, in Newark, New Jersey in 1968. He won several state and local show awards in the early seventies, including 1st place in oils at the Garden State Art Center in 1971, 1st place for Watercolor at the Red Bank Festival of Arts in 1972 and an Honorable Mention in the Emerging Artists exhibit at Rutgers University in 1973. He had numerous one-man shows in both New Jersey, California and Georgia and has exhibited in many fine galleries in California, Scottsdale, Arizona, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Georgia. As a young man, Don was inspired by Winslow Homer, and one of his first watercolor trips was to his home state of Maine. He remember waiting for over an hour for the...