Reuben E. Lee (Riverboat) 1970 54x60 - Huge - Mississippi

Year1970

Hand SignedLower Left 

Condition Other - natural aging of white mat 

Framed without GlassBlack Wood Frame w/ White Mat and Matching Filet 

Purchased fromGallery 1970 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID157141

Paul Blaine Henrie - United States

Art Brokerage" Paul Blaine Henrie American Artist: b. 1932-1999. Paul Blaine Henrie was an American painter and illustrator who was known for seascapes and coastal scenes. Henrie was born Paul McKinley Henrie in Tampa, Florida. He established himself in 1960 in the artist community of Laguna Beach, California, where he lived in a hillside home with his wife and child. Henrie later moved to Carmel, California. Henrie became known for his watercolors and palette-knife oil paintings of California coastal scenes as well as exotic locales he had visited in Tahiti, Mexico and New Orleans. In works prior to 1961, his signature is "Paul Henrie" or "Blaine". Afterwards, he signed them "Paul Blaine Henrie". Henrie was criticized for "prostituting his undeniable talent" because he readily admitted to sometimes pumping out dozens of paintings only to maintain an expensive lifestyle. Henrie boasted he was the "fastest palette in the west" and could produce several paintings in a day. He was very prolific. Well Priced paintings wanted.