02 Marine Paintings - Nelson White's Red Umbrellas, with Footnotes, #374

Nelson White

The Red Umbrellas, c. 2013

Oil on canvas

18 × 32 in, 45.7 × 81.3 cm

Private collection

Nelson White

The Red Umbrella, c. 2013

Watercolor

7 1/4 × 10 1/4 × 1/2 in | 18.4 × 26 × 1.3 cm

Private collection

A red umbrella painted en plein-air on a beach in Italy. Distant figures sit beneath a yellow umbrella along the shoreline, white sailboats soar across the horizon.

Nelson White is known for his Umbrella paintings. Painted en plein air on a beach in Italy. Born in New London, Connecticut in 1932. White has been surrounded by art and artists from the time he was born. He received his earliest art instruction from his grandfather, Henry Cooke White (1861-1952) and his father Nelson Cooke White (1900-1989). Living with his parents at the Florence Griswold house in Old Lyme, he met some of the most important and influential artists of the day, Childe Hassam, Will Howe Foote and Harry Hoffman.

After graduating from the Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts in 1951, Nelson H. White began to study at Mitchell College in Connecticut. By 1955, Nelson H. White had decided to devote himself to a career as a painter and traveled to Florence, Italy. Within two years, the young White had won two awards for his work. White divides his time between the United States and Florence.

Whether Nelson H. White is painting the Connecticut shore, a beach in Italy, a pond on Shelter Island or the hills of Vermont, he allows the observer to view a soft, yet dramatic side of nature. His ability to use color, coupled with rich brush work and a graduation of light, air and atmosphere allows one to enjoy a certain mood which is clearly conveyed in White's paintings. It is a mood that leaves us with a lasting impression.

White's first museum restrospective was in the New Britain Museum of American Art in July 2012. His work can be found in many private and public collections, as well as several museums. More on Nelson White

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