Works on paper

White Sea, Monhegan #5
White Sea, Monhegan #5
White Sea, Monhegan #5
White Sea, Monhegan #5
White Sea, Monhegan #5
White Sea, Monhegan #5
White Sea, Monhegan #5
White Sea, Monhegan #5
White Sea, Monhegan #5
White Sea, Monhegan #5
White Sea, Monhegan #5, 1977
Reuben Tam
Acrylic on paper
12 x 13 3/4 inches
Framed: 22 1/2 x 26 3/4 inches
Signed: Tam lower right
Reuben Tam, White Sea, Monhegan #5, 1977
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Description

Well known for his abstract landscape paintings, Tam captures the rugged coastline of Monhegan her in White Sea, Monhegan. He is using varying shades of white to convey what he saw before him under the intense light of the sun. Interesting to note that this may have been his own artistic approach to capturing the “glare aesthetics” of the sun at a particular moment on the water. The piece is meant to suggest what we have all seen and reacted to in a pared down memory of light, waves, shimmering light and rock.

provenance

Estate of Elizabeth Ann Van Houten
Barridoff Auction, Portland ME August 2025