Dennis Sheehan

Native Bostonian Dennis Sheehan received his Artistic training in the best traditions of the "Boston School, studying at the Vesper George School of Art, the Monsterrat School of Visual Art and adding private work with two of R.H. Ives Gammell's former students, Robert Cormier and Richard Whitney. Sheehan has joined the fine attention to technique derived from his education, with its meticulous empahsis on light and dark 'values', with a style of landscape painting which reminds us of the tradition of American Tonalism. As Sheehan says about his own work, "My goal is to have the painting emanate light, rather than be just a surface that records the reflection of light. This is why the shadow areas are important, for it is from them that this emanation proceeds. The light areas are focal points of this effort, but the power comes from the shadows."

Exhibitions
2000 One Man Show, Portnoy Galleries, Carmel, California
1995 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts 
1994 Alfred J. Walker Fine Art, Boston Massachusetts
       The Crane Collection, Boston Massachusetts, "Living Artists 
       Enrico Donati Gallery, Newburyport, Massachusetts, three artist exhibition
       Powers Gallery, Acton, Massachusetts, "Reflection In Bloom"
       A.R.A. Gallery, South Hamilton, Massachusetts
1991 Krystal Gallery, Warren, Vermont
1987 Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, New Hampshire
1986 Peterborough Savings Bank, Peterborough, New Hampshire
1985 Bravos Gallery, Georgetown, Massachusetts