Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Monhegan Island
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Jan Domela (Dutch painter, 1894-1973)
Location:
repository: Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland, Maine, United States) 97.3.9
Location Note:
16 Museum Street; Bequest of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Noyce, 1997
GPS:
44.103236-69.110295
Date:
1938 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
30 in (height) x 40 7/8 in (width, unframed)
Subjects:
landscape; seascape; Boats and boating; Fishing; fishing village; Maine; seacoast
Description:
Jan Marinus Domela was a Dutch-born American artist and illustrator. After returning to California in 1928 Dolema was made the chief matte painter at Paramount Studios, and was chief artist in the special effects department until 1968. Creating landscapes for most of the movies produced by Paramount for over thirty years, he received several Academy Awards for his work. Domela exhibited his own landscape paintings of subjects such as the Monterey Peninsula, the California Sierras, the Alps, and Monhegan Island. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-DOMELA-MI-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Monhegan Island