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THBTom Hennessey (1937-2018), The Heartstopper
Lot 586
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Copley Fine Art Auctions
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Pembroke, MA 02359
United States
Founded in 2005, Copley Fine Art Auctions is a boutique auction house specializing in antique decoys and American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Over the course of the last two decades, the firm has set auction records for not only individual decoy makers, but also entire carving regions. Copley...Read more
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Tom Hennessey (1937-2018)
The Heartstopper
signed "Tom Hennessey" lower right
watercolor, 16 3/4 by 26 3/4 in.
The viewer can feel the tension in Hennessey's watercolor as a large Atlantic salmon boils at the fly at the tailout of the pool.
Tom Hennessey was a sporting artist from Maine and a long-time outdoors writer for the Bangor Daily News. He penned three books: "Feathers 'n Fins," "Handy to Home," and "Leave Some for Seed," and exhibited and sold his paintings through Crossroads of Sport in New York for many years. He died in 2018.
"'As an outdoors writer it was my privilege and pleasure to be a spokesman for sportsmen; especially when anti-hunting organizations and animal-rights groups attempted to rob sportsmen of their treasured outdoor cultures, traditions and heritage by banning hunting, trapping, even fishing. All of which are integral to fisheries and wildlife management and important to the state's economy,' he wrote."
His obituary notes, "Hennessey's work was a testament to timeless values that he held strong, and defended fiercely, depicting the Maine he grew up with, knew well and loved." They "depict scenes that reflected some of the things he liked best. Hunting with a well-trained bird dog, fishing from a vintage canoe, sharing time with a special hunting buddy." The artist said, "When I'm out fishing or hunting, or just out around with the dog, I'll see something, something will happen, and that will inspire [the art]" such as this classic sporting scene.
Provenance: Private Collection, MassachusettsPlease email condition report requests to leah@copleyart.com.Condition
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