Stapleton Kearns Dan Harrison's Barn New England Farm Landscape with Sheep Oil Painting in Gold Frame

Stapleton Kearns (American / Maine , b 1952) finely done farm landscape with sheep oil painting on canvas. Titled Dan Harrison's Barn on label from Bay View Gallery on the reverse. Signed lower left. Artwork in custom gold frame with linen liner measures 15.5" x 19.5". Artwork and frame in very good condition with light wear. 

From Kearns' website:

I WAS BORN IN ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA in 1952. My father was a physician and my mother collected eighteenth-century antiques. She liked to visit historic homes, museums, and antique shops, taking me along when she discovered I enjoyed those things as well. In the mid-sixties, she bought a large English landscape by John Tenant that was painted in 1850, and hung it above the mantle of our home. I was so impressed with that painting that I decided one day, I would be a painter myself. I left high school early in order to more fully participate in the 1960s. One year later, I began art school at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and then transferred to the University of Minnesota. Neither one taught me much about the sort of painting I intended to do.

Currently, I am living on Cape Ann, in the 400-year-old seaport of Gloucester, about forty-five minutes north of Boston. I own and run the Stapleton Kearns Gallery in Rockport where I show my own art and that of my wife Dale Ratcliff. I have served on the board of governors of the Rockport Art Association and as its president for five years. I am also a member of the Guild of Boston Artists and sat on their board for many years as well.  I was recently awarded the Christopher A. Hamilos Award for “Best in Show” in the Rockport Art Associations and Museums 2023 National Show.