Lighthouse Painting

This watercolor is done by renowned artist R.W. Ware and was created in 1987, the year the lighthouse was was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Ware is mostly known for his works or New England, such as Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire, and areas of New York State. His style of depicting scenic landscape art, farmhouses, beach scenes, and images associated with the simple life of New England in the formats of oil on canvas, watercolors, and graphite on paper drawings.

Ware is an artist familiar to the Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Cape Ann community and has produced works of art based on his time spent there. Many of Wares’ landscape paintings include buildings such as farmhouses, and lighthouses, showing the early history of beautiful New England. In the watercolor format on paper, this painting provides a rich and saturated palette of a full blue and white sky, on a rich rocky grass hill mixed with a rocky seashore. The lighthouse tower shone tall with the sunlight, baking the white tower and adjoining abode—the center of the painting detailed with seagulls flying above the sand.

This is a highly decorative and effortless lighthouse watercolor painting to enjoy in a variety of interior decoration contexts of home decor or office decor styles. Perfect for a modern farmhouse decor style or any lake house or home located near a body of water. This is a clean, easy, and classic American painting, done by a master of the watercolor painting medium with understanding and respect for the New England landscape and its historical monuments.

The frame measures 21.25 inches by 25.37 inches. The image measures 13.75 inches by 18 inches.

The frame displays wear and scuffs, the painting not examined outside the glass and frame, some visible ripples.