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Divided       2012 Watercolour, 18-1/2 x 29-1/4 inches signed lower right   “When I’m staying on the mainland in St. George, Maine, this is the first thing I see upon looking out my bedroom window in the morning. The porch pillar cutting vertically through the American flag creates the namesake for the painting—’Divided’ as that’s where […]

  Study for Painter’s Sea       2001   Watercolour, 20 x 29-1/2 inches   signed lower left   “One of my favorite locations on Monhegan Island is the area around Lobster Cove and Lobster Point, at the southern end of the Island. I make a point of walking to this area daily to watch the surf […]

Light Tower       2005   Drybrush, 28-1/4 x 21-1/4 inches   signed lower left “Bradley Hendershot / on Monhegan Island, Maine”   “This drybrush was painted on location on Monhegan Island, Maine, in August of 2005. The painting started out as a fairly loose watercolour, but I became involved with the texture of the granite blocks […]

Bradley Hendershot Cistern House       2006 Watercolour, 19-3/4 x 29-1/4 inches signed lower right “John Sterling’s Cistern House, also known as Uncle Henry’s, was built on Monhegan Island around 1815. Originally known as the Cistern House, as it protected a water supply, it became known as Uncle Henry’s in the 1930’s when Henry Shaw used it […]

Bradley Hendershot Bait House       2007 Drybrush, 21 x 29-1/4 inches signed upper left “This drybrush is not an exact depiction of any one building on Monhegan Island, Maine, but rather an imagined composite of the various fish shacks on Fish Beach. The painting was actually started during a lecture I gave on the Island in […]

Bradley Hendershot Morning Prayers       2002 Watercolour, 31 x 46-1/2 inches signed lower right “The concept for this painting began more than a year before the final work was completed. I was doing studies of Jamie Wyeth’s house on Monhegan Island in the fog. A young man of the Jewish faith, named Menachum, approached me and […]

Bradley Hendershot Island Rental       2007 Drybrush, 17-1/2 x 28-1/2 inches signed lower right “Here’s a statement that I wrote several years ago about the house in this painting: ‘ From the first time I ever got off of a boat on Monhegan Island, Maine, I have been intrigued by the large, rambling, old house that sits […]

Study for Independence Day, I     2007   Watercolour, 18-1/2 x 29-1/4 inches signed lower right  Bradley Hendershot   “This watercolour was painted on location on Monhegan Island, Maine. I’ve attempted to capture the early morning light striking the side of the lightkeeper’s house on Lighthouse Hill. I find endless satisfaction in painting the varied angular […]

“Dear Monhegan”           By Paul Niemiec

 ” The Night Before “   ” The island readies itself. It is a winter’s night before.   Everything is in place. ”   —Paul Niemiec Jr.