Harry Demaine
(1880 - 1952)

Harry DeMaine was born in Liverpool, England and grew up in Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire. He took his first formal art instruction at the Liverpool City Art School, studying subsequently in London and at the Julian Academy in Paris, where he exhibited at the Salons. During WWI, DeMaine was associated in the early days with the American Field Service, a volunteer ambulance service working with the French, and later joined the British Expeditionary Force, serving with the King's Royal Rifles.

After the armistice Harry DeMaine came to the United States and became a naturalized citizen. He exhibited widely and held one-man shows in New York and elsewhere, receiving prizes in both watercolor and oil. A Washington Post review once said he, "transferred to America...the lyrical quality of the English landscape."

DeMaine was closely associated with the New York Watercolor Club and the American Watercolor Society, serving as secretary and as exhibition chairman when these societies merged. Other art organizations that he was affiliated with were the Salmagundi Club, the North Shore Art Association, the Rockport Art Association, the Allied Artists of America, the Audubon Artists, and the National Academy of Design, to which we was elected an Associate member. While he lived in New York, Harry DeMaine received the inspiration for most of his work from long summers spent in the environs of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Backyard Connecticut oil on canvas, early 1940s 30 x 36 inches SOLD		Gloucester Waterfront (Gorton's Dry Storage) oil on canvas, 1940s 30 x 36 inches		Cape Ann Pastures oil on canvas, 1940s 25 x 30 inches SOLD
Gray Morn oil on canvas, 1940s 25 x 30 inches SOLD		The House in the Woods oil on canvas, late 1930s - early 1940s 25 x 30 inches		Rocks and Water oil on canvas, 1944 25 x 30 inches
Late Afternoon, Gloucester oil on board, early 1940s 20 x 24 inches		Afternoon Shadows oil on board, 1940s 20 x 24 inches SOLD		Essex, Mass. oil on board, 1940s 16 x 20 inches SOLD
Rockport Inlet oil on board, 1940s 16 x 20 inches		Rocky Shore oil on board, late 1930s - early 1940s 16 x 20 inches		Landscape, Upper NY State oil on board, Fall 1949 16 x 20 inches SOLD
Purple Sands oil on board, 1940s 16 x 20 inches		Roofs from the Hilltop oil on board, 1940s 16 x 20 inches		Glimpse of the Sea oil on board, 1930s - 1940s 14 x 16 inches SOLD
Connecticut Byroad oil on board, early 1930s 12 x 16 inches SOLD		Sun on the Moors oil on board, 1940s 12 x 16 inches		After the Storm oil on board, 1938 10 x 12 inches SOLD
October Day oil on board, 1940s 10 x 12 inches SOLD		Boggy Underfoot oil on board, 1940s 10 x 12 inches SOLD		Old Time Bridge oil on board, 1948 10 x 12 inches SOLD
Winter Birch oil on board, late 1930s - early 1940s 10 x 12 inches SOLD		Brown Roof and Red Shutters oil on board, early 1930s 8 x 10 inches SOLD		Smooth Waters oil on board, 1930s - 1940s 8 x 10 inches SOLD

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