{"product_id":"stan-moeller-inlet-at-blue-hill-maine-marsh-landscape-oil-painting-in-gold-frame","title":"Stan Moeller Inlet at Blue Hill Maine Marsh Landscape Oil Painting in Gold Frame","description":"\u003cp\u003eStan Moeller (American, b. 1952) oil on panel of a coastal marsh landscape lined with evergreens. Titled\u003cem\u003e Inlet at Blue Hill, Maine\u003c\/em\u003e. Artwork in custom, beaded gold wood frame measures 19.5” x 23.5”. Artwork and frame in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"919\" data-start=\"142\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBorn in 1952, Stan Moeller grew up in rural northern Indiana near the Michigan border, in the tiny town of Scott, population 50. From an early age, he showed a natural aptitude for art, drawing and working in clay, and later pursued formal studies as an art major at Western Michigan University. Studying during the 1970s, when abstract expressionism dominated academic instruction, Moeller sought out every opportunity for traditional training, particularly life drawing. One portrait-painting instructor from New York City urged him to leave academia and fully commit to painting, advice that left a lasting impression. Moeller continues to believe that painting itself is the greatest teacher, echoing the philosophy of one of his artistic heroes, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1514\" data-start=\"921\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the mid-1990s, Moeller began painting on Monhegan Island, where he met resident artist and musician Don Stone (1929–2015), who became both a mentor and close friend. As Stone aged, Moeller often drove him to shared exhibitions and master classes, gaining invaluable insight through long conversations about painters and teachers who shaped Stone’s life, including Paul Strisik, Emile Gruppe, and Aldro Hibbard. This lineage of shared knowledge and mentorship remains central to Moeller’s understanding of artistic education, a tradition passed hand to hand rather than taught in classrooms.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2348\" data-start=\"1516\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor nearly two decades, Moeller has taught plein air painting workshops on Monhegan Island, as well as in Tuscany and the South of France. He has also taught oil and acrylic painting at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester and led a master class in En Plein Air Figure in the Lan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2348\" data-start=\"1516\"\u003e\u003cem\u003edscape. His work has been featured in The Centennial Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in 2018 and has appeared in American Art Collector, Southwest Art, and International Artist Magazine. Among his honors are the Marine Environment Award for Best Depiction of Wildlife in Its Natural Habitat at the 25th Annual International Marine Masters Art Exhibition at Mystic Seaport, as well as a month-long residency with Les Amis de la Grande Vigne in Dinan, France, where works from the residency are now held in the museum’s permanent collection.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2601\" data-start=\"2350\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoeller lives in York, Maine, with his wife, Tammy, along the upper reaches of the York River, surrounded by conservation land and working farms. They travel frequently to France, Italy, and Cuba, where Moeller continues to sketch and paint from life.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sugartown Art and Antiques | Antique and Contemporary Fine Art Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44741821464623,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/9345\/6687\/files\/IMG_8822_603b0a76-e46a-44af-bedb-6047ce10e7fd.jpg?v=1765056663","url":"https:\/\/www.sugartownart.com\/products\/stan-moeller-inlet-at-blue-hill-maine-marsh-landscape-oil-painting-in-gold-frame","provider":"Sugartown Art and Antiques | Antique and Contemporary Fine Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}