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Signed limited edition print unframed by Andrew Annenberg. The print is titled "Pelican Dawn". 34.25"x20"

About the Artist:

Andrew Annenberg Bio

I knew from the age of seven that I wanted to be an artist. I was never without a pencil or a crayon, and I drew incessantly. I was fortunate enough to grow up in Washington D.C., and my mother, recognizing my interest, would often take me to the National Museum and the Smithsonian. The great art treasures that I saw there spoke to the core of my being. One day I was standing entranced before a painting by Velasquez, and I said to my mother, ¿I wish I could paint like that.¿ She replied, ¿Andrew, if you work hard, you can paint like that.¿ Her words have inspired my life, and I am still apprenticing myself to the "Old Masters."

Largely self-taught, Since the age of 14, I have been oil painting, and I feel I have lived the most fortunate of lives. I have been able to spend my time doing what I love best in the world.

The guiding principle of my art is beauty. I want my paintings to open the heart, lift the emotions, and inspire the spirit. I feel that my art derives from the classic tradition of European art. I do not consciously use any particular subject matter, though there are broad themes that permeate my work. Much of my artistic life was spent in Hawaii, where I developed a profound love for the marine environment. Other main themes have been allegorical, ancient civilizations, visionary, still life, and landscape.

Perhaps the most important quality that I aspire to, and which when successfully achieved raises a painting above the ordinary, is that subtle thing we call atmosphere. The soft haze in the distance; the bright reflection, the subtly blended skin tones and play of light and soft shadow that delineate every plane and curve and hollow of a face to produce a stunning illusion of actual three dimensional substance and weight and heft. These are the things I strive for.

A recent major work is a six foot by five foot coastline seascape called "Misty Cove." The subject attracted me largely because of the challenge of painting the huge variety of different ways that water can appear; with and without shadows and reflections, rough, smooth, distant and close, and everything from ocean waves to foam breaking on the shore. It also fits in with my current emphasis on scenes of nature, and my ambition to produce work that can stand beside the great landscape painters of history.

Item Special Note

Item will be available for pick up on December 12 & 13.  If item is mailed, purchaser responsible for shipping costs.  Item will be shipped USPS or US Mail unless requested otherwise.  No shipping outside the United States.