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                         La Maison Blanc                                                Yosemite             
                            24" x  30"                                                        12" x  8"          
                      Oil                                                                Pastel



           
                            Autumn in the Blue Ridge                                               Boarded Up                                   First Front - Blue Ridge                 
                    16.5" x  17.5"                                                              17" x  20"                                                 22" x  13"          
                                                                        Pastel                                                                         Pastel                                                       Pastel                                                              



             
   Breakwater-Malpaso                                     Grey Green Surf                                               Grey Surf         
       24" x  34"                                                      16" x  22"                                                   16" x  22"
         Oil                                                               Pastel                                                          Pastel  


  
           
                          Athens                                                West Coast, St Martins                             Baroque Doorway, Provence     
       22" x  17"                                                          17" x  23"                                                           22" x  15"    

                Pastel                                                                 Pastel                                                                Pastel               


     
          Muren, from Kleinscheidig                                                                    Pont Du Garde                         
            28" x  40"                                                                                         24" x  36"               
      oil                                                                                                       oil           


      
                 The Denmark                                                                      Sunset Carmel                         
                        15" x  18"                                                                              8" x  12"                                 
                             Pastel                                                                                   Pastel                                      

 
 
     
The Last Yankee Clipper                                                                               The Severn         
    10.5" x  15.5"                                                                                         13.5" x  19"
      Pastel                                                                                                    Pastel
  
   


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                             Spring Green, Santa Ynez                              The Cloning of Bathshiba                              Carcassonne from the South                                
       24" x  30"                                                           15" x  22"                                                           17" x  22.5"      
                 Pastel                                                                 Pastel                                                                  Pastel                  

    
                 
                               Blue and Gold - Pt. Joe                                               Sphinx                                                      Pyramids in Giza                                 
             17" x  24"                                                         16" x  17"                                                        15" x  21"         
                Pastel                                                               Pastel                                                               Pastel             




         
               Summer Night Bergen                                                 Abstract Impression at Work   
                                17" x  23"                                                                              17" x  21"                           
         Pastel                                                                                     Pastel     
 

 
           
        Upland Pastures, Santa Ynez                               Bali - Hai - Moorea                                     Toward the Misty Fjord                
     16" x  22"                                                       13" x  19.5"                                                        17" x  24"       
          Pastel                                                               Pastel                                                               Pastel            
   
                    
       The Old Homestead                               Autumn Below the Dentelles                                    Tunnel Rock-Big Sur      
       
  20" x  16"                                                          16" x  22"                                                               19.5" x  16.5"
             Pastel                                                                Pastel                                                                        Pastel          

 

DeWitt Whistler Jayne, a distant cousin of the famous American artist James McNeill Whistler, has been painting for more than 70 years.  He is noted for his powerful, realistic works of the sea and its majestic sailing ships.  These dramatic scenes are executed with unquestionable authority, acquired after years of studying these vessels and visiting most of the world's great historical ports and harbors.  Few marine artists have been able to capture the exacting detail of the rigging and sails and also paint the open seas with such accuracy.  The artist has collected on of the most comprehensive resource files on the old sailing ships in the country.

The artist is an acknowledged contemporary master of pastels, giving strength, solidity and brilliance to his work that is rarely seen in that medium.  DeWitt's are both vigorous and precise.  He takes risks which few other pastel artists attempt because he is a masterly draftsman.

Mr. Jayne received his early training at the Philadelphia Museum's School of Art.  It was at this time that he and Andrew Wyeth studied under the students of Howard Pyle, the great American illustrator.  They were the artists who became internationally known as the Brandywine School.

The artist's national reputation began with his commissioned portraits of Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon.  During his illustrative career, Jayne executed over eighty front covers for various magazines and two hundred book covers.  His work has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and the headquarters of Curtis Publishing Company.

Mr. Jayne has been represented by our Gallery exclusively for over 30 years and continues to amaze his collectors as well as first time viewers with the exquisite detain and superb control; of whichever medium he uses to create his masterpieces.

 

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