Kinley Shogren painting

Kinley Shogren (1924-1991) was a "fine Cleveland artist of the mid-20th Century. He became known for his popular watercolor scenes around rural Ohio, and was an authority on Great Lakes shipping and ships. He painted a great number of the freighters and other craft sailing the Great Lakes, including an accurate detailed written description of the boat for each." From an auction site description.

And today I was browsing through art items at the cancer resale store and noticed a Kinley Shogren painting of a boat in a harbor--sort of misty with two other boats barely seen in the fog.  I'd never heard of the artist, but noticed the note on the back that he was from Mansfield, Ohio and the painting was a class study. Usually, I'm not impressed with their art items, but for $10 I thought it was wonderful.  So I bought it. There's some glare on the glass but this is a pretty good likeness.

https://danielebrady.blogspot.com/2019/12/ohio-artist-kinley-shogren.html  Local paper features a show, include the obituary.

https://www.wkyc.com/article/features/local-artists-painting-finds-new-church-home/464098118  A painting of Jesus by Shogren done for a church is placed in another church 40 years later.  His son tells of posing for his father.

https://www.arcadja.com/auctions/en/author-lots/3kx4mfel/  47 lots of paintings and prints

His typical style is very tight and realistic, particularly the ships and landscapes.  He was concerned with accuracy.  But I like the fresh and quick sketch look of my "find." Here are others I found at auction sites.

  

Update.  The name on the back of the painting (seems to be original owner) is Neal Layne.  I looked him up and he lived our community, died in 2003, and was an architect.  Bob remembers him!  Services were here in UA but he is buried in Mansfield, where the artist taught and had his studio. 

When you buy art. . .

A haunted painting?

When you live with an artist (or two if you count me), you have a lot of art in the closets (we also buy it), so we're always rearranging. Last week we did a major shift. I've been hearing really creepy noises in the living room in the early a.m. I’ve decided it is the painting of the big house near Delaware, Ohio,  It is so large it has acrylic instead of glass in the frame to reduce the weight. When the heat comes on it makes expanding noises, then contracts.

He was an architect before he was a painter, so as architects will do, he remodeled it a bit for the painting--took off an addition that detracted from the original bones of the house. I think he also gave it a coat of paint. It had been refurbished about 20 years ago, but had fallen a bit in recent years. So if you drive by this house, it may not look quite like this.

The environmental regulations have become so restrictive that it is very difficult to save homes like these—lead paint, sometimes buried fuel oil tanks, etc.  Plus the heating costs with 12’ ceilings is often prohibitive. 

Ohio Artists Collection Show at UALC

Upper Arlington Lutheran Church has one of the best galleries in Columbus, Ohio, for individual and group shows at the Mill Run Campus. The current show is the Upper Arlington Art League Spring Show which will run through June 10 (3500 Mill Run Dr., Hilliard, OH 43026, closed Friday and Saturday). At the Lytham Road campus (2300 Lytham Rd., Upper Arlington, OH 43220) we don't have a gallery space per se, but we do have the Arakawa hanging system in the hall near the administrative offices, next to the library, and in the library lounge. So we have space for a small show. In April we hung 20 of our Ohio artists paintings there, plus another 7 smaller items in the display case in the library lounge. Although I've been looking at these paintings many for years, they look very different hanging out with a whole new crowd.

Howard Trump, left; Barbie Bright, right

Robert Moyer, left; Charles Rowland, right

Ned Moore, left; Fritz Hoffman, right

Ken Becker, Jeanie Auseon, Judith Vierow, Sharon Borror

James DeVore, Janet Nicodemus, David Schachne, Don Dodrill

If you or your artists' group are interested in providing a show, you can call the Visual Arts Ministry, 614-451-3736, to meet with the ministry group and receive the guidelines.