Sally Caldwell Fisher (American / Maine, b. 1951) acrylic on panel painting of farm houses illuminated by the setting sun. Titled Sproul Farm on the reverse. Signed lower right. Artwork in custom gold wood frame with linen liner measures 20.75" x 20.75". Artwork and frame in very good condition.
Sally was born in 1951 and brought up in Michigan. When asked how long she has been painting, she answers, "always". She graduated from University of Michigan with a degree in English and immediately started selling paintings and waiting tables to survive. Sally moved to Maine in the early seventies and fell in love with its beauty - a beauty of contrasts. The granite and the dark pines, the fields of snow and the sparkling sea. It quickly became her passion to paint New England life in its variety and harmony with nature.
In her paintings, she tells a story. Sally collects old photographs of coastal life and buildings. The artist takes much inspiration from them. Sometimes, she says she feels she can enter them and become part of another time, a time to which she has always been drawn. It is New England's deep connection to its past, in its architecture and industry and character, that makes her feel so open to it. She feels she never runs out of things to paint.
