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# Candace Whittemore Lovely

American Impressionist

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- [Club Erotica](https://www.candacelovely.com/art/club-erotica/)
- [Steal Like an Artist](https://www.candacelovely.com/art/steal-like-an-artist/) - Author and artist, Austin Kleon explains “steal like an artist” best with his 10 rules to follow in his bestselling book “Steal Like an Artist”: Steal like an artist: The author cautions that he does not mean ‘steal’ as in plagiarize, skim or rip off — but study, credit, remix, mash up and transform. Creative
- [On the Edge of Beauty: Good and Lovely – Waves](https://www.candacelovely.com/art/on-the-edge-of-beauty-good-and-lovely-waves/) - Through decades of influence Candace Whittemore Lovely has created wave after wave of soft, beautiful, symbolic, and sentimental artistry, always with the intention of telling a story. She turns time and again to her favorite muses – “Fair Women,” the oceans and shores of Nantucket and Hilton Head Island, and the balance of attraction, as
- [“I Created a Show”: Good and Lovely Marilyn](https://www.candacelovely.com/art/i-created-a-show-good-and-lovely-marilyn/) - Good and Lovely Marilyn: Portraying one of the most iconic images of attraction in American Culture. Whenever Candace Lovely talks of any of the pieces in her iconic Good and Lovely signature collection, she either begins with or emphasizes that phrase – “I created a show.” It’s nearly subconscious at this stage of her career,
- [The Attraction of Home: Good and Lovely Home](https://www.candacelovely.com/art/the-attraction-of-home-good-and-lovely-home/) - The “Good and Lovely” collection brings together a variety of imagery and settings the artist considers some of the biggest attractors or attractions. People, allegiance, enigmatic stories, history … and home, with all its sights and sounds favored familiarity. Good and Lovely Home is where two of Candace Whittemore Lovely’s famed collections intersect (G&L and Westies) – not
- [An All-Inclusive Embrace: Good and Lovely Hug](https://www.candacelovely.com/art/an-all-inclusive-embrace-good-and-lovely-hug/) - In the work of American Impressionist Candace Whittemore Lovely, the layers of symbolism, intentionality, and pure poetic beauty unravel with an endless depth. So it is with this centerpiece of her trilogy of “Good and Lovely” flags, an interpretation of the early American Flag that lands chronologically between the other two Good and Lovely Flags
- [Love Each Other: The Message of a Good and Lovely America](https://www.candacelovely.com/art/love-each-other-the-message-of-a-good-and-lovely-america/) - One of a trilogy of “Good and Lovely” flags in the artist’s larger and namesake “Good and Lovely” collection, this most recognizable – a recreation of a contemporary American flag – seems straightforward, until Candace Lovely turns to her creation and tells its story in layers. As many layers as stripes, the passion and point
- [Fully Lovely: Candace Being Candlish on Canvas](https://www.candacelovely.com/art/fully-lovely/) - The Symbolism and Inspiration behind Candace Being Candlish on Canvas Like her art, Candace Lovely’s use of words is a creation uniquely her own. As the artist introduces this piece, she approaches it personally and relationally, inviting you to “meet” Candace Being Candlish on Canvas. A self-portrait of sorts, it’s also a signature piece (to her collection,
- [Good and Lovely Camelot](https://www.candacelovely.com/art/good-and-lovely-camelot/) - “I create a show in black and white … and Pink.” Of all the artist’s plentiful collections, one of the most prolific in her portfolio – and most representative of her personality and palette – is when she leans into her black, white, and pink to pull together a Lovely story. The “Good and Lovely”
- [First Lady Barbara Bush](https://www.candacelovely.com/influence/first-lady-barbara-bush/) - “I had a year to prepare” Candace Lovely says of her historic role in creating the official White House portrait of First Lady Barbara Bush.
- [Boston Marathon Angels](https://www.candacelovely.com/influence/boston-marathon-angels/) - "My Prayer for Boston” In the face of triumph or tragedy, a community responds, and within that community, artists create. Candace Lovely is no exception. Lovely has long been driven to capture pieces of history as seen in some of her most celebrated pieces. Beyond history, there’s Lovely’s unwavering passion to “paint from real life,”
- [A Master Paints the Masters](https://www.candacelovely.com/influence/a-master-paints-the-masters/) - As is often the case, art inspires art and artists inspire artists. At the University of Vermont, Candace Lovely became mesmerized by the works of accomplished painters, most specifically her personal discovery of Winslow Homer. So moved by his work, she longed to paint like him and asked her professor at the time, "who can

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- [Albert Shucking Peas](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/albert-shucking-peas/) - A true to life character, the artist refers to the titular Albert as “a genuine product of Nantucket.” Following Lovely’s well-rehearsed theme of voyeurism in her paintings, Lovely captures the essence of Nantucketers here in a hardworking island resident who, though retired, still prefers to wear his uniform. Celebrating this spirit, Albert is featured here as-is, not changed out of work clothes but featured in them, from the comfortable, conversational expression to the touch-of-red in the shadows of his hat. Dimensions: 12H x 16W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Front Street Terrace](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/front-street-terrace/) - Walking down Front Street in Sconset on Nantucket, you’re walking among some of the most beautiful gardens in the American Northeast. The garden captured in this piece -- in the heart of an historic fishing village of cottages and gardens overlooking the ocean on the island's east side -- represents more than just the terrace in view. It’s a nod to how the local community on Nantucket values the garden as part of their culture, history, ambience, and way of life – so much so, they’re governed. Gardens in this area need to be pre-approved and are closely monitored. Lovely attempted with this broad stroke, bold movement, gently abstract piece, a voyeuristic viewing of a small window of this horticultural heart. Dimensions: 18H x 24W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINALARTIST'S VIDEO Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Waiting for Sargent](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/waiting-for-sargent/) - Inspired by a prominent work from the painter John Singer Sargent (who painted in a Fenway Studio eventually owned by Lovely), this work is reflective of his piece The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit down to the wedge of red screen in the background and color choices in the decorative rug. This setting is a nearly tongue-in-check contribution in which Lovely exchanges daughters for Westies, one of her favorite stark-white elements to incorporate and which appear in a large number of her paintings. The Westies pictured here are figurines rather than her frequently painted personal pets, changing the dynamic of relationship and energy by relating figures to vases as additional pieces of still life, and further evidenced by the oversized corner of area rug with bulky ropes of fringe. Dimensions: 8H x 10W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Sandy Toes](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/good-and-lovely-sandy-toes/) - Sandy Toes merges the Good and Lovely series with Lovely’s repertoire of “fair women on beachscapes.” All playing out in the artist’s favorite approach to composition (allowing the viewer to become voyeur) we catch the model here drying her feet in the late afternoon after posing for Lovely’s painting, Good and Lovely Waves. Here we find her coming off the beach with the sun low in the sky, having a moment among the sea oats and trailing vines. Complete with signatures like Nantucket basket handbag and the crimson ribbon of the artist’s actual signature in the lower right, this piece was created from a model who was posing for pieces in the Good and Lovely show (note the incorporation here of that collection’s use of pinks, whites, and blacks). For the painting that made it into the show, see Good and Lovely Waves. Dimensions: 30H x 20W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE ORIGINAL For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Nantucket Poppies and Bachelors](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/nantucket-poppies-and-bachelors/) - This whimsical floral piece is a window to more than just this garden on Union Street near Nantucket’s quaint downtown area. A scene the artist claims eluded for years, this is visually and emotively characteristic of much of Lovely's portfolio, from landscapes and gardens to the cameos made by colorful blooms in a majority of work. The title is intended to capture a spirit of brides and grooms, pairing the feminine poppies with bachelor buttons used regularly in boutonnieres. This playful pairing is mirrored in the pink and blue colors of blossoms, with a single, prominently placed red-petaled leader in the foreground. More than just her literal (signature) color, according to the artist the large red bloom is a tribute to Love. Dimensions: 36H x 48W | Medium: Acrylic PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Sails from Charles Street](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/sails-from-charles-street/) - “This is how I start a canvas,” Lovely explains, “with darkest darks as a foundation creating the abstraction in trees. That’s the layer of blue. Then add yellow, then red – that’s how I paint fast to simplify things.” In this case, she kept it there. Simple but bold, broad, loud strokes create a sound scaffolding for the soft and billowing sails of a Boston waterway. Suggesting a breezy movement of watercraft, the stunning pairing breaks through as an “abstraction in the trees,” in the artist’s words, as seen from the vantage point of a viewer tucked under the arbor of green on the bank of the Charles River. Dimensions: 16H x 20W | Medium: Oil on Canvas PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Sankaty Daffodil Lighthouse](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/sankaty-daffodil-lighthouse/) - This Nantucket Icon was on the artist’s must-paint list for a variety of personal signature reasons. From the renowned imagery of the point and structure itself, to the surrounding daffodils, part of the recognized beauty of the island. As Lovely describes, daffodils in bloom across the landscape are a sign that “summer is coming soon.” The “Rain from Heaven” shading technique utilized to create the open sky background keeps the warmer colors near the earth and unfolds a linear quality in the parallel 45-degree lines of pastel shading. Dimensions: 12H x 9W | Medium: Pastel PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSINQUIRIES Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Nantucket Basket Bouquet](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/nantucket-basket-bouquet/) - This painting is a celebration of Nantucket in several layers: Positioned against a sprawling waterway reminiscent of island creeks and wetlands, the pictured Nantucket Basket (a traditional artisanal creation for which the area is known) is filled with flowers symbolic of the local ecology. These floral selections are blooms frequently used in celebrations with blue delphinium, hydrangea, and rosa rugosa (commonly known as beach rose) making regular appearances in weddings. Dimensions: 12H x 16W | Medium: Oil on Linen 1
- [Mommy and Leslie](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/follow-me-too/) - One of three studies and a sequel to the painting "Follow Me", this piece shows the little girl's mother to the faithful following of Westies. Lovely's original commission of the little girl becomes more broadly experimental, interpretive, and chunky on this canvas, breaking the imagery into bolder, warm strokes pulling up into ROYGBIV diagonals at the horizon, creating a reflective rainbow of bright light hues and directing the eye to what the artist describes as "the hardest edge." Dimensions: 12H x 10W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Good and Lovely Marilyn](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/good-and-lovely-marilyn/) - Good and Lovely Marilyn was born of the artist’s interest in helping viewers explore what the attraction of a painting is, why we remember what we remember, what has lasting influence, and how to decide what you should be collecting. Her 2001 art show “Good and Lovely” featured “items of attraction all painted in black and white with a medium hue of pink.” Unlike “Good and Lovely Camelot,” this portrait is not of Marilyn Monroe in actuality, but a self-portrait of the artist sitting as Monroe, embodying the concept by portraying one of the most iconic images of attraction in American Culture. Dimensions: 16H x 11W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Companions in the Garden](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/companions-in-the-garden/) - The official White House portrait of First Lady Barbara Bush, this personal commission was destined to hang in residence at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. Undoubtedly the artist's most famous and culturally influential creation, the initiation of this painting began with a letter to Mrs. Bush from Lovely herself. Expressing interest in painting the Bush family grandchildren in portraiture, a camaraderie was struck between Lovely and the then-current First Lady. Mrs. Bush's requests were to be painted with her trademark pearls, a book to symbolize her literacy platform, and her beloved dog MIllie. As a subtle signature from the artist, you'll also find Lovely's trademark "puff hat with pink bow" featured prominently in the fore. Dimensions: 36H x 32W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Good and Lovely Waves](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/good-and-lovely-waves/) - This piece has been called “a pleasurable experience of oneself reflected in nature,” both figuratively and literally as we see the subject duplicated in the glassy surf. The artist’s intention was to create a piece in line with her Good and Lovely collection, centered around elements of attraction and a palette of pink, black, and white in line with the original candy brand. Lovely not only incorporates this obviously in the black bows, white dress, and pink parasol, but with the same vivid hues woven into the colorful highlights in the waves, the white fabric, and prismatically angling from horizon into sky. Delivered here in Lovely’s characteristic voyeuristic composition, this painting is the prelude to Good and Lovely Sandy Toes. Dimensions: 35H x 26W | Medium: Oil on Canvas PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Window Sill Vase](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/window-sill-vase/) - One of several creations that came to life in the soon-to-be-removed (and therefore historic) Lobster Shack on the Otis property on Nantucket, most of the “in the window” series came about when it was “too windy to paint outside.” Drawn against a flowing “Up The Creek” background, the top third is crowned by a view of the town in subtle, hazy blues, peaked with iconic Methodist and Unitarian Steeples across the water. Paint marker as a medium pulls the chunky color of the blooms into the low-lying grasses and the hue of the distant village in a color-celebrative still-life that is more fluid than still. Dimensions: 8H x 5W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Name *Email *NumbersComment or MessageSubmit
- [Good and Lovely Home](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/good-and-lovely-home/) - Not one of the traditional pieces in Lovely’s Good And Lovely collection, this painting from the Westies collection sneaks in by name only, thanks to its Good & Lovely brand color palette. The sleeping white pups, Lovely’s own pets which adorn a great number of her paintings, repose among the same whites, pinks, and blacks that were used to create other Good And Lovely creations, from Jackie Kennedy, to Marilyn Monroe, to the American Flag. “Painting from life,” this scene played out as Lovely unpacked from a trip, her dogs’ secure and contented body language exuding the sense of being “glad to be home.” Dimensions: 11H x 14W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Good and Lovely Kiss](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/good-and-lovely-kiss/) - With the confederate flag being one of the most controversial American images in the past century, Lovely chose to include it in an inspirational Good and Lovely collection as the grouping is all about attraction and this visual indeed attracts attention. “Even as the years have washed the cause with vagueness,” Lovely says, “defiant ones continue to rankle at the thought of being told what to do, which still makes the flag an attraction (good or bad) today.” Artistically all the palette and treatment choices used cross-collection are included here, with the ombre hued outline around the stars and around the pink triangles, “causing a vibration of the primary color” and an electricity for the viewer. Dimensions: 42H x 45W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Good and Lovely Hug](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/good-and-lovely-hug/) - With so much in common visually with Good and Lovely America, this interpretation is adjusted for the Betsy Ross “early design” of the American flag. Trading xs and os for the stars and stripes, Lovely maintained the ombre in the bed of stars and in the outline of each pink stripe, to cause a “vibration of the primary color” and an electricity for the viewer. Dimensions: 38H x 50W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Good and Lovely America](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/good-and-lovely-america/) - This piece is part of the artist’s larger Good And Lovely collection which marries the color palette of the Good & Plenty™ candy brand and a “feel good” approach to paintings and subjects alike. Lovely points out her directorial intention in the ombre progression “from the center where the red is, going out, that draws the eye to say, ‘look here first then look around.” Lovely also submits that the heart of this piece, “is hidden in the sentiment behind the xs and os, or kisses and hugs, representing the culmination of the true goodness of the United States of America.” Notice also the thin outline or rainbow hues bordering each pink stripe adding, as Lovely describes, “a vibration of the primary color.” Dimensions: 38H x 50W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Good and Lovely Camelot](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/camelot/) - Shown at the 2003 Copley Masters Invitational Show, Copley Society, Boston Massachusetts, this tryptic mounted collection pairs the artist’s Good and Lovely color palette with the three life stages of American icon, Jackie Kennedy. In the artist's own words about this work and its subject, "it tells the story of her life without words. She started in white, peaked in pink, ended in black." "Camelot” debuted in the artist’s 2001 art show “Good and Lovely, featuring element of “attraction” all painted in black and white with a medium hue of pink. Each piece (3 separate paintings installed together in gold frame) maintains a singular expression, setting light backgrounds against dark, both heavily influenced by Andy Warhol’s posterization process. Lovely adds on the subject of storytelling and history, "If I could write I would, but I tell stories in paint." Dimensions: 10H x 24W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Morning Glory Beach](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/morning-glory-beach/) - This is quintessential Candace Lovely, one of the most recognized among her theme of “fair women on beachscapes.” Standard imagery from this category is intensified and spot lit here. The off-the-shoulder white summer dress is embellished with “Good and Lovely bows.” Parasol and “puff” hat with bow form the peak of the centered subject triangle. The Nantucket basket is pushed forward, allowing for greater detail in the tightly woven craftsmanship, and prominently draped through the foreground, are the trailing vines of the morning glories, the cameo star for which this piece was named and which the artist says she was “bound and determined to catch in bloom.” Dimensions: 24H x 36W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below. /
- [Westies, Home](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/westies-home/) - A proverbial companion piece to her painting Good and Lovely Home, this image features the artist’s personal pets and regular models Mack and Hamilton. To maintain the integrity of “painting from life,” Lovely included the open closet door, and general packing or unpacking disarray, and the sweet sentiment seen here of beloved dogs who, when packing want to come with, and when unpacking are glad you’re home. Dimensions: 14H x 20W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Beach Novel](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/beach-novel/) - Despite the level of detail in this heavily landscaped beachside scene, this interpretation of model Carrie Camperman was painted in just an hour. All the artist's standard elements anchor the piece in Lovely's traditional coastal style with Nantucket basket, pink "Good and Lovely bows," and the red and white umbrella featured in some of her most popular as well as largest-scale creations. Dimensions: 10H x 15W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Beach Recliner](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/beach-recliner/) - Settled, soft, inviting, and alluring, this scenic beachscape offers up another Lovely voyeuristic creation of a "fair woman by the sea." Every itemized beachscape box is checked - wide brimmed straw hat with bow, the famous pink parasol, pink "Good and Lovely bows," white maxi dress, Nantucket basket, and sea oats in full bloom. With the elements the artist keeps in each piece of a vastly populated collection, Lovely still manages to make the same recipe new with altered perspectives like perching the model on a disappearing curve of the sand and and shifting from placid waters to temperamental ocean hues ranging from calm cool to near emerald greens on the painting's left edge. Together the subject and accessories create an anchored triangle, a primary principle of composition upon which Lovely heavily relies in her portraiture. Dimensions: 42H x 50W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Step Beach in June](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/step-beach-in-june/) - One of the most picturesque beaches in Nantucket, it’s easy to see why in Lovely’s perfectly captured beachscape. Standing on the cliff looking down toward Step Beach, from this bird's-eye vantage point, the view assaults the senses with the call of the seaside. Near to far, the coastal cast of characters is overflowing. Beach roses welcome the eye in the foreground leading you down the path toward one of Lovely’s characteristic “Fair Women” interacting with a flourishing dune that blossoms most prominently in June. A few steps down, the attending beach shack overlooks a wide expanse of ocean, drawing the eye and heart out and away to sea, epitomized by the delicate fleet of sails advancing upon the horizon. Weaving in her delicate pinks and touches of white, the artist does not leave this piece void of her figure’s signature adornments, the summer maxi dress, pink parasol, summer hat, and one can presume a pinpoint Nantucket Basket. Dimensions: 18H x 24W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Main Street Evening Snow](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/main-street-evening-snow/) - Akin to the artist’s similar-feel painting, Downtown Woodstock, this Main Street depiction of her hometown Springfield Vermont is painted in honor of a departed classmate. Calling this her prayer for him, this twilight image balances cool wintery blues with the warm lights breaking through darkness, whether streetlamp, headlight, or reflection off the snow and slush. "Light breaking through darkness" only further illuminates the artist's heart and personal memory behind bringing this scene to life in paint. Dimensions: 16H x 24W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Orange Chill](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/orange-chill/) - This scene takes place on the sands of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. "Orange Chill" is a large in-studio creation from the original smaller in size "The Study": a plein air on this famous Hilton Head Island beach. Lovely describes starting with "a small study from a day on the beach with paints," and challenged herself with "how big can I paint it?" The size of the larger acrylic is perhaps the best delivery of the rows of reverberating orange, offset by the cool blues of ocean, sky, and beach accessories. Screaming of summer senses in the upscale island resort setting, this image was first captured seaside at the Sea Pines Beach Club. This painting currently resides in the French Bakery & European Cuisine restaurant in Shelter Cove, Hilton Head Island and is available for purchase. Dimensions: 48H x 60W | Medium: Acrylic on Canvas PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [The Daisy Field](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/the-daisy-field/) - One of the artist’s earlier works from 1982, this piece was inspired and influenced by Claude Monet’s Poppy Field. Comprising a field of daisies, purple asters, and variety late summer wildflowers, the field of fauna is built of soft, broken colors blended into a rustic greenbelt and muted sky. Dimensions: 24H x 20W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Olivier's Dinner Party from Chattanooga](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/oliviers-dinner-party-from-chattanooga/) - In the same sphere as the artist’s Two Women at Olivier’s, this piece was “painted from life” while the bustling party was dining. Lovely describes the challenge of the “figures all moving, laughing, talking” which you can almost “hear” in the body language Lovely depicted, “painting what was essential while trying to capture the moment as life changes before my eyes.” Brighter and warmer than Two Women, Chattanooga is bursting with warm red swatches, backlit yellows, white glass reflections, and flushed expressions, presenting a feeling as much as an image. Dimensions: 20H x 16W | Medium: Oil on Canvas PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Waiting for Santa](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/waiting-for-santa/) - Throughout Lovely’s body of work, westies feature heavily enough to be their own collection but in this charismatic cacophony of Christmas and sentimental charm they take a second seat (literally). Like Lovely’s pieces featuring models on verandas simulating the childlike behavior of sitting “wrongly” in chair, here we see that escalated as only a true child subject can in festive red tights and carefree pose. The cameo here are the chairs originally from Newberry in Paris, reupholstered in Laura Ashley print, the story is they were once occupied by Picasso. All three figures are the artist’s family, her niece “doing what kids do,” and Mac and Hamilton (westies) decked for the holidays. “The scene reminded me,” says Lovely, "of Mary Cassatt, who not only often painted children and dogs, but specifically “painted a dog and a girl who couldn’t sit up in her chair either.” Dimensions: 11H x 17W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [After Raphael Mother and Child](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/after-raphael-mother-and-child/) - One of several bold-colored pixel pieces by the artist, this interpretation is her reimagination of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child as painted by the classic artist Raphael. Of several Raphael Madonnas, this one most closely intimates The Small Cowper Madonna created in 1505, though Lovely translates loosely in her “painted digital squares.” Lovely also points out a deeper layer of symbolism in that each square alone is just a color, but together they create a purpose. Much like God is to man. Without God we have no purpose. Dimensions: 7H x 5W | Medium: Oil on Canvas PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Spencer Hollow Meadow](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/spencer-hollow-meadow/) - The artist’s first award-winning painting, this piece is also the first in several interpretations of this landscape near Lovely’s childhood home. When she began studying seriously in 1980 and returned home to Springfield Vermont in 1983, she intentionally drove to see this scene which she says reminded her of several rehearsals on a theme by renowned painter Dennis Bunker's Medfield paintings. “I saw this meadow in my hometown and thought, ‘I have to paint that.’ I noticed the similar reflections that I was studying in Bunker's Medfield paintings, how the rocks were situated, the angle of the water, the brown tones.” Of the personal inspiration Lovely explains the setting reminds her of Psalm 23 when it encourages “He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.” Dimensions: 30H x 20W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Blooms Under Glass](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/blooms-under-glass/) - This is the piece that inspired the 2021 exhibition “Nantucket in Bloom” at The Gallery at Four India on Nantucket Island. In the original greenhouse seen here (from the famed Frick Estate, Pittsburgh PA), cultivated blooms with overpowering fragrances were made almost detectable in the brightness of color, depth of shadow, and lush, layered greenery. In the artist’s own description of the inspiration, “when you’re in a greenhouse, you can’t think about anything but the flowers; being under the glass steals all your thoughts to the beauty of the plants. The Garden rules.” Nowhere does the garden rule more than on the island of Nantucket where gardens are a registered and featured part of the environment, history, and culture of the place. Lovely also states of this piece that you can find in a greenhouse the same things that bring people to Nantucket – an environment in which you can regroup and regenerate positive energy. Dimensions: 18H x 24W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Downtown Woodstock](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/downtown-woodstock/) - This piece marks an era in the artist’s creative progression when, as she describes, “I started painting what I know.” Lovely returned to childhood spots to capture the visuals, but more so to translate a sensation to canvas. Here the warm tones play against the cool, creating a tonal painting that pulls the viewer into an enveloping scene. Lovely washes the canvas with detail and invitation. The foreground’s slush of tire tracks underscores a main-street midwinter feel. The eye is drawn upward from town to the historic architecture housed in heavy background blues. Finally, the warmth created (visual or emotional) of lights in storefronts and on lampposts create a quaint comfort. Previously said of this piece, “Woodstock Vermont is the proverbial New England village painted here with a cleansing, beautiful snowfall. You can almost hear the hiss of snow falling and the children hoping for a day off school.” Dimensions: Not Specified | Medium: Oil on Canvas PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Sea Oat Blues](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/sea-oat-blues/) - The artist speaks of this piece with an overt affinity for capturing the beauty of sea oats in a painting. A frequent subject in her body of work, she notes the “bright yellowness against the blue sky,” pairing one warm color against one cool; add “a few umbrellas on the beach and it screams of how beautiful our Hilton Head Island is in July and August." Measuring a larger than average 60x48, Lovely describes taking on the size of this work as a challenge of pushing a traditional image into a larger frame; a larger four corners to present wider detail in one of her favorite elements to paint. Dimensions: 48H x 60W | Medium: Acrylic on Canvas PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [White Tree Main Street Rotary](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/white-tree-main-street-rotary/) - Lovely says in description of this solitary tree in full bloom, "All of Hilton Head Island is a garden." Like the artist's fascination with Nantucket gardens, this southern contribution is focused on abundant blossoms but instead of lush and sprawling landscapes, hones in on a single icon in manicured setting. "Painted from life" in a 3-step process, Lovely keeps this piece raw and broad-brushed while maintaining a level of detail that shows every hard edge from flowerbed to curb. Dimensions: 20H x 16W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Arlington Street Showers](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/arlington-street-showers/) - The artist's favorite cityscape shines here in the rain at the Boston Public Garden. Here at the park's entrance with the statue of George Washington and the ornate front gate, Lovely once again positions the viewer as voyeur, "catching people in transit," she explains, "isolated under their umbrellas and thoughts." Inspired by the painting Paris Street; Rainy Day, circa 1877, arguably the best known work of French artist Gustave Caillebotte, Lovely created this US variation in blue shadows and warm highlights. . Dimensions: 25H x 36W | Medium: Oil on Canvas PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Infinity](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/infinity/) - Like Lovely's "Volcano," Infinity was painted poolside in the U.S. Virgin Islands, but with an actual volcano and the artist herself stepping in as the subject. The title a play on words for the infinity pool and the infinity shape of the featured figure, this piece brings a coastal nod to Hilton Head with a candy-striped lighthouse and a Lovely-esque wide-brimmed sun hat. Chunky brush strokes confined to the under-cloud portion of the background blend into a smoother foreground with the artist (and subject) both figuratively and literally “reflecting.” Dimensions: 16H x 20W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [I See God](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/i-see-god/) - In Candace Lovely’s well-established voice of “painting from real life,” this personal moment was captured from a day at the beach with a friend. As Lovely describes, “God can be found in any moment – or every moment.” In this scene, that discovery was more literal as the artist’s companion perceived an image in the cloud form and exclaimed, “I see God.” What unfolded was a multidimensional journey across the canvas that Lovely explains, “overlaps several times within the four corners and creates several dimensions.” Dimensions: 48H x 60W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINALARTIST'S VIDEO Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below. A video from the artists about this piece.
- [Nantucket Flower Parade](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/nantucket-flower-parade/) - Compared to secondary study "Nantucket Basket Parade" done in paint marker, this iteration of the same or similar setting is completed in chunky blunt strokes, and compounds the floral details with foreground bouquet and background kitchen wallpaper textile, a steely neutral base with bright candied blooms. Among what the artist festively refers to as "a parade of favorite things," you find a duo of Manhattan brands with the Tiffany blue box and MacKenzie-Childs knickknacks, all encircling a Nantucket basket and propped on a cake plate, a visual play on words for the "sweet setting" of the overall piece. Dimensions: 20H x 16W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Lobster Red](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/lobster-red/) - Describing this pixel painting the artist vacillates from talking art versus food versus nature. She ends up with a piece abstract enough to be evocative of all three. Lovely says, "I start with the darkest darks and from there start seeing the matrix." Using broken color, and relying on the "timing of the viewer understanding how to interpret pixels," Lovely directs an experience where she hopes the audience can not only "see the form but also almost taste the goodness. I always wanted to paint a lobster - such a rich delicacy deserves a painting - and I wanted it to be a painting that feels like summertime." This was the outcome, selecting a large, male (larger claws for bolder, bulkier imagery), Maine lobster, delivered through a compositional theory that allows her to create through the juxtaposition of "pixelated" color blocks. Dimensions: 24H x 36W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [The Little Discoverer](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/the-little-discoverer/) - This little discoverer has several nuanced and symbolic overlaps with Lovely's painting "I See God." With similar color of suit and blond hair, the viewer can almost imagine the subjects related or different points of a single life, though not the artist's original intention. While one discovers in the sky, the other turns to the ground. "The beauty of this little girl," Lovely says, "is she's telling you a story. 'Look what I've found - life' as she's searching the ecosystem of the tidepools." Lovely acknowledges her compositional structure choices, with the subject's body forming a triangle overlapping all background layers, and set among the broken colors of red sand and warmer shadows in the foreground, "There are loose moments of red, then the purple - blue and red together - cools it," Lovely teaches as she rolls poetically back into the symbolism of the setting saying, "Nothing was prepared. This is honest, organic - she is part of nature, holding a bucket (not a sailboat as the boys have in their paintings but a bucket to gather showing the general nature of women), and one that can hold all her discoveries." Literal or figurative. Dimensions: 25H x 35W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Rose Garden Reader](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/rose-garden-reader/) - A true Candace Lovely brand of artistry in both visuals and feel, every element here is a standard contribution in her favorite and perhaps most rehearsed theme. The pink parasol bends toward rosa rugosa in bloom creating a diagonal dynamic and shadow for the main subject, also adorned in head-to-toe Lovely standards with full skirted white dress, summer “puff” hat with bow, and Nantucket basket. Up and over the dunes the sailboats being present offer the sense of up and away, while the model’s back turned to them offer a sense of solitude and beachscape escape among the trailing vines. Dimensions: 24H x 35W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Follow Me](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/follow-me/) - This commissioned portrait of the little girl as main subject led to a variety of offshoots featuring the adorable Westies, Lovely's personal pets. Literally following in this scene and subsequently following in a Westies Collection, the marshmallow puff companions compound the candy-coated feel of the overall piece. Created on the shore on Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport Maine during low tide, the water is pulled back enough to fascinate with tide pool activity and reflective shallow waters. Lovely quotes a French impression connection to the voyeuristic painting perspective. Dimensions: 36H x 26W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Two Sugars Please](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/two-sugars-please/) - The first of the artist's prolific collection of westie paintings, this piece also has a backstory that connects to Lovely's commissioned portrait of First Lady Barbara Bush. "The first thing she said to me was, 'Do you have a dog,' which I felt was a gauge for whether she liked me, and I knew I had to get a dog. The next year I put my name on a list for my westie puppy Mack and his half brother." The rest is history not only regarding the artist's dogs, but the collection that ensued from painting them. This piece was created in the spring on Hilton Head Island South Carolina, the stark white of westie nearly obscured in an abundance of bluntly painted blossoms Dimensions: 11H x 17W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Night Skaters](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/night-skaters/) - One of the artist's favorite subjects - Boston landmarks in winter - is featured here in its finest, intimately inviting form. Joining the skaters at the Boston Public Garden at twilight, Lovely describes, "your mind is taken away from everything except the beauty of being here, in this city. The night sky is advancing - it's not totally black and you can still see the blue of the light in the sky, and the windows of lights turning on." Lovely points out compositionally and tonally the piece is neither worm nor cool, but a mix of orange and blue created a muted winter cityscape with the Four Seasons and Boylston Street in the background. Dimensions: 26H x 35W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Myrtle Island](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/myrtle-island/) - One of Lovely's handful of pixel paintings built on a scaffolding of "painted digital squares," this one capitalizes on a color arrangement theory that she describes as a "Manet juxtaposition: When you put one color next to another it changes the value of that color. When you see the relationships between the colors the image starts to take on a personality and feel of the place. As you examine the blocks, pull back, and take it in overall. If you squint you can see the marsh on Myrtle Island." Dimensions: 20H x 24W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Searching for Shells](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/searching-for-shells/) - This is a scene in the artist's own words that she could "endlessly paint -- like Manet's haystacks." White flowing dresses, bows and parasols, summer hats and Nantucket baskets, and "fair women on beachscapes" wading in soft, shallow tide while "gathering," a fascination to Lovely as it relates to the nature of women. In addition to the layers of models in front of the sea, or parasols creating the texture of highlight and shadow, she adds layers of opposing shapes, one model enclosed and searching and the other a long and draping form reminiscent of Erté. Dimensions: 35H x 25W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [A Tale to Remember](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/a-tale-to-remember/) - Originally commissioned as a surprise birthday present for the mother of the three daughters pictured here, this early Lovely work was created in 1980 in Half Moon Bay, California on the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Lovely was flown out in secret by a collector of her work who wanted a family portrait for his wife. She sought a spot with a high perched view among the ice plants -- the west coast's answer to the rosa rugosa and sea oats of the east. Setting up the sisters to work together putting bows on a kite string, Lovely explains wanting not only a visual to "tie" them together in the image, but loves the layered symbolism of being tied together as siblings, growing up together, and creating a (kite-)tail/tale to remember. Dimensions: 24H x 32W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Sea Shell Whites](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/sea-shell-whites/) - On the surface this "fair woman seaside" beachscape incorporates much of Lovely's standard imagery (Nantucket basket, white dress, bow and parasol), but in deeper comparison this is Lovely, deconstructed. The palette compared to her others in this style of piece is more muted and neutrals-based than the traditional pastel and high-vibrations of her coastal figures. Moreover each element is subtly "undone." Maxi dress is off-shoulder, bow untied, basket empty being in-progress, filled with collected shells, hair is uncovered and without standard summer hat, and the solid pink parasol becomes a translucent, lace-edged stand-in. Compositionally, Lovely maintains her common themes and art theory, including voyeuristic viewpoint, anchored triangle of centered subject, and overlapping images across diagonals created in sea, surf, and sand. This painting captures winter in Captiva, Florida, 1990, and delivers on the so-called wintery-summer mood. Dimensions: 22H x 30W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Candace Being Candlish on Canvas](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/candace-being-candlish-on-canvas/) - One of Lovely's most multi-layered pieces visually and symbolically in all the chosen imagery and related detail, it also happens to be a self portrait. Unpacking the literal layers, the artist painstakingly integrates the highlight and shadow of each lattice composing the trellis, built of Xs, Os, and the slightly more obvious hearts in the entrance. Lovely refers to this as her homage to the neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The list of ingredients are also an homage to the artist's handiwork herself, having "handled" every element here, designing the trellis and garden, tending the abundant flowers, and subjecting herself as subject. Preferring the (again, layered) wordplay in the final title, Lovely considered as an alternate, "Venus Visits Vermont." Dimensions: 55H x 44W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Boys Ahoy](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/boys-ahoy/) - One of three small studies of this scene, this sweet natured and soft-toned piece set the stage for the commissioned portrait that resulted from this sitting. The oldest boy holds the center, with the young behind literally and symbolically, the oldest teaching and leading, while leading the visual as well. The youngest of the three shows trepidation in his abstract expression as well as in the tension of body language while the middle age boy shows growth into curiosity and following. More than a study of boating, it's a study in launching from boyhood, beyond. Dimensions: 12H x 10W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [White Elephant of Jetties Beach](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/white-elephant-of-jetties-beach/) - Painted from life, this scene from Jetties beach (on the north side of the island between the mainland and Nantucket proper) finds a mother entertaining her two children at the iconic island landmark, the White Elephant Hotel. Located near the Brant Point Lighthouse and Children's Beach, this stretch of shore carries a mixed feeling of family fare and summer attraction. The cool shadows and blues of the hotel's branded deck chairs and beach umbrellas create a vivid centerpiece against a peaceful, plain beachscape. Void the foliage in so many Lovely seaside images, her traditional rolling vines, oats, and fair flowering dunes are exchanged here for the vacationing vibe of water coolers, lifeguards, and an intentionally lopsided casual energy in the swimmers' body language and placement of chairs. Images: Dimensions: 24H x 30W | Medium: Acrylic on Canvas PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Lovely Daffodils](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/lovely-daffodils/) - Pairing several of the artist’s favorite passions to paint, this scene highlights a well-known Lowcountry landscapes (U Pick Daffodil field, Bluffton, SC), filled with bright blossoms of daffodils in their spring bloom, adorned with Lovely’s signature figure, “Fair Women.” Lovely has described of her portfolio the propensity to paint women gathering and men hunting. The personality of the gatherers in this image were as much the artist’s goal to capture as the field and foliage. Dimensions: 18H x 24W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
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- [Four O'Clock Milk](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/four-oclock-milk/) - In the artist’s own words this painting was the result of a desire to “go back to what I know” and paint a familiar spot near her childhood home in Vermont. In her prolific collection, Lovely has periodically captured what she fondly refers to as “our Spencer Hollow Meadow.” In different pieces she captures it in twilight or in spring in her first award-winning painting. Here she tilts the lens down the cold winter brook where, through the morning snowfall, we see all the lights on in the barns for the 4 a.m. milking on the farm. More than a literal detail Lovely says this depicts a culture and a feel of her hometown. The original was sold to a patron who then donated it to a museum in Rockland, Maine. Dimensions: Not Specified | Medium: Oil on Canvas PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Hendersonville Water Lilies](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/hendersonville-water-lilies/) - Most prominently inspired by the oil painting, At the Lotus Lilies by American painter Charles Courtney Curran, this piece is one Lovely describes having wanted to paint “for so long.” She also credits influence from Manet’s Cows at Pasture for her choice of “simple loose brush strokes.” Dimensions: 12H x 16W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
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- [Girl in the Courtyard](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/girl-in-the-courtyard/) - Moving into her home in Hilton Head South Carolina, the artist established in her courtyard this bronze statue of a nude girl, a favorite piece in her personal art collection. Set at the home’s entrance overlooking the pool of a waterfall, Lovely was moved to capture both the image and the feeling of "coming home." Molded by prolific sculptor Antoinette Schultze, the life-sized figure installed in the open air courtyard stands surrounded by red Camellias and pink Azaleas in full spring bloom, two primary signature colors evident throughout Lovely’s collection of work. Dimensions: 10H x 10W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Nantucket Beach Pinks](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/nantucket-beach-pinks/) - Perhaps the artist’s quintessential piece for showcasing rosa rigosa, in Nantucket Beach Pinks, we see the often-included beach rose elevated to become the primary point of focus and the entitled subject. A jewel in a sprawling coastal crown, this flower flanks the shores throughout the American Northeast and as such is prominently featured in nearly all of Lovely’s beachscapes. Lovely’s other signature elements – “Fair Women” figure, pink parasol, Nantucket basket, ribboned hat, and flowing sundress – have turned their attention here to the bloom itself, literally the center of attention anchored within the four corners of this work. Dimensions: 20H x 16W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Window Sill Nantucket Baskets](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/window-sill-nantucket-baskets/) - Executed in paint marker, note the similarities and differences between this floral bouquet study from the Lobster Shack on Up the Creek in Nantucket Harbor, and others created in the same setting. For example, the related work Window Sill Vase captures the view from the same window, spreading over the water and into town. This piece intensifies the focus on the blooms themselves, similarly and simultaneously elevating the collectible Nantucket Lightship Baskets, handcrafted by artisans Michael Kane and Bill and Judy Sayle. Lovely also deepens the purple hues, used as subtle accents in related studies, but here pulled forward in pronounced strokes through the hydrangeas and window frames. Dimensions: 5H x 8W | Medium: Paint Marker PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Venus Goes H2O](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/venus-goes-h2o/) - "Venus” marks an intentional shift in repertoire for Candace Whittemore Lovely. After a prolific series of “white dress” paintings in the same tenor as Monet’s “haystacks,” Lovely describes the “need for a change” meant creating a piece that “takes the dress off, literally and psychologically.” The artist takes the subject (“Fair Woman”) off the beach and places her under water, ready for a rebirth in the spirit of the original Venus (which in Greek is Aphrodite from aphros meaning foam). Showing this Venus before emergence, approaching renaissance, the artist refers to this work as her personal breakthrough piece, painted as a self-portrait from a swimming pool in Hilton Head Plantation in South Carolina. Playing with prismatic colors and reflection (literal and figurative reflection on her artistic journey and reinvention), won the artist an award at the 2019 National Association of Women Artists in South Carolina’s Transparency in Light Show. Dimensions: 54H x 44W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Two Women at Olivier's](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/two-women-at-oliviers/) - One of Lovely’s more rare, muted, darker-toned pieces, Two Women at Olivier’s was painted onsite while patrons dined at the Hilton Head Island establishment named in the title. Encouraged to paint in-restaurant by Olivier’s owner, Lovely set up an easel and challenged herself to capture images quickly before the moment changed to stay true to her passion and style of “painting from life.” The artist describes, “starting in blue and adding colors as ultra-marine blue is a very forgiving color.” Layering images over her foundation of sketches and blues, this piece includes a “painting within a painting,” as one of Lovely’s previous works, hanging above the table, is featured in the top of the frame. Dimensions: 9H x 12W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Sue's Basket Shop](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/sues-basket-shop/) - An artistic variation from Lovely’s traditional flowing landscapes, bright florals, and summery figures, this earth-toned workshop setting is nonetheless quintessentially Nantucket. The subject, artisan Sue Ottison, crafts a Nantucket Lightship Basket surrounded by 17 others in this softly north-lit setting. Sister-in-Law to Albert, another Nantucket personality featured in Lovely’s work, Ottison also owns the Lobster Shack from which the artist painted a variety of still life. Here, the figure embodies both personality and history, talent and craft. Quiet, focused, and voyeuristic, this slight variation in the artists’ portfolio is still stylistically Lovely, capturing soulful Nantucket living in warm shadows and coastal hints of orange and blue. Dimensions: 18H x 25W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Sconset Garden Umbrella](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/sconset-garden-umbrella/) - This quaint setting of the terrace of a house on Bluffwalk in Sconset embodies the artist’s flair for charm. Painted in soft afternoon light and incorporating several of Lovely’s signature touches from the wide shade umbrella to a garden abundantly in bloom, she presents a scene that is both voyeuristically quiet and inviting, both brightly lit in the greens of the foreground lawn to coolly shaded in both color and feel in the center of the piece. Dimensions: 9H x 12W | Medium: Pastel PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Nantucket Basket Parade](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/nantucket-basket-parade/) - Created in paint marker as a study for a larger painting, this parade is heavily related to paired studies such as Nantucket Flower Parade where you’ll recognize the same figures against a different background. Still featuring the same Tiffany’s and Mackenzie Childs “knickknacks,” in the artist’s self-described “parade of things, the background draws from the uniquely identifying color of the pants known as “Nantucket Reds.” Any summer in New England, you’ll find the heart of it dotted, colored, and clothed with the dominating hue in Lovely’s Basket Parade. Dimensions: 8H x 5W | Medium: Paint Marker PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Memorial Day 2004](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/memorial-day-2004/) - "Painting from Life,” the artist created this broad stroke rendering of the 2004 Memorial Day community ceremony at Shelter Cove on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Taking on the challenge of painting a fast moving, short-lived scene, Lovely explains her expression on canvas was a blend of observing the event and praying for the people present as well as the beloved service men and women remembered and celebrated. The patriotic palette of deep reds and blues, while characteristic of the holiday, also aligns with tones frequently paired in Lovely’s bolder pieces. Dimensions: 11H x 14W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Lowcountry Crabbing](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/lowcountry-crabbing/) - This traditional Lowcountry scene was captured off Burkes Beach near Folly Field on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Making her audience once again voyeur, one of the artist’s favorite approaches to the imagery she chooses, this moment was “all about nature” in Lovely’s words. “It’s all natural, except for the pier,” and that includes both definitions of the word, as Lovely adds, “it’s the nature of a man to hunt” (in relationship to her painting women gathering flowers in baskets etcetera). “The tide was coming in and here was this man, finding his supper out of a tidal creek with flowers in bloom,” she describes of the yellow asters among the sweetgrass and the low line of pines crowning the yellow-greens and blues for which Lowcountry imagery is known. Dimensions: Not Specified | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Joe and Sarah Sailing](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/joe-and-sarah-sailing/) - One of Candace Lovely’s earlier works, this portrait and birthday gift was also the artist’s first commission piece. Painted in Palmetto Dunes, on Hilton Head Island South Carolina, it captures a brother and sister duo in a candid moment of play. With the older sibling helping the younger to learn to set sail to model boats, the pair is featured in a soft morning light with cool outdoor shadows and warm highlights. Notice as the shadows reflect themselves they turn warmer than the base blues of the ocean setting, a companion to the mauve and pink-purple tones that anchor the palette throughout. Dimensions: 38H x 28W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Island Still Life](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/island-still-life/) - This exclusive piece has the distinction of being Candace Lovely’s first still life. In the artist’s own words, this “list of ingredients tells the Nantucket story – with all Nantucket things.” The Nantucket basket speaks for itself, but most other pieces offer deeper layers of symbolism. The Canton China represents the Chinese imports to the island, with a long history of the shipping industry sailing into port “bringing foreign products back home to our land from other lands,” as Lovely imparts. More overtly, the scallop and conch shells, and marine life on the scarf, are offerings of the sea, while the whale in the foreground is a nod to the whaling community and perhaps the mascot of New England, both land and sea. The Nantucket doll recalls both the artisan culture of the island as well as (in Lovely’s half-joking storytelling) the fact that “Women run Nantucket.” Dimensions: 16H x 24W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Hydrangeas in Vase with Shells](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/hydrangea-in-vase-with-shells/) - Part of a paint marker study-collection featuring two significant Nantucket emblems: hydrangeas in blues and a swath of “Nantucket Reds” creating the background’s tri-color progression of warm-to-cool diagonal layers. Nantucket Reds (a red khaki pant) are the unofficial uniform of summer in the Cape and Islands of New England, and a color you’ll find throughout Lovely’s work. The artist specifies this red reflects the stems of the rosa rugosa (a.k.a. the beach roses that garnish the coastal dunes) which you can see better “in early October, when there are no leaves" and the stems are laid bare. In the base you'll find a pile of scallop shells, also iconic island currency. The hydrangeas, naturally representative of foliage found throughout the northeast seaboard, are symbolic as a bloom that “multiplies (returns) every year," as Lovely points out, “like much of Nantucket’s population.” Dimensions: 8H x 5W | Medium: Paint Markers PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Hannibal's Bar Nantucket](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/hannibals-bar-nantucket/) - As much as Nantucket is sweeping sand dunes, sprawling white porches, and overflowing hydrangeas, it’s also a fisherman’s warf of hard-won hauls and warming hands at watering holes like Hannibal’s coming in from a week at sea. Wrapped in the “shells” of their salted hats and thick coats, crustaceans at the bar, these characters form another of Lovely’s most telling voyeuristic scenes. Setting itself noticeably apart from the artist’s portfolio of coastal pinks and blues, the bold oranges and reds of this piece speak to the grit and fortitude that forms the feel of the fishing industry, the underlying foundation of the island community and the entire northeast seaboard. A relatable scene to natives and locals, Lovely honors this heritage with both warmth and intensity in this paint marker on paper homage. Dimensions: 5H x 8W | Medium: Paint Marker on Paper PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Calhoun Street Dresses](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/calhoun-street-dresses/) - Well-known for painting women in dresses, the artist played up her personal amusement of finding these dresses on mannequins for this quant-meets-contemporary, small-town piece. Capturing a decorative corner of Historic Downtown Bluffton, South Carolina, the artist references her “painting from life” mantra noting the odd mix between the feminine frivolity of the cottage dress shop and the “true to life” interplay with utilitarian, unsentimental realism in the stop sign, telephone poles, and of-the-time SUV. You can spot the artist’s familiar inclusion of red and pink subtle blooms that pair with the pinks of signage, lettering, and fabrics. Dimensions: 14H x 18W | Medium: Oil on Canvas PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Burberry's and the Ritz](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/burberrys-and-the-ritz/) - A twilight snow scene of the entrance to the Boston Public Garden from Arlington Street, this is one of many in the artist's portfolio that capture cityscapes in proximity to the renowned Copley Society (“the oldest non-profit art association in the United States, with a history dating back to 1879,” where Lovely is recognized as a Copley Master). A model Lovely used for several works while learning portraiture brought her husband along and the artist decided to include both figures in this stroll at dusk. They were walking their dogs which would later inspire Lovely’s personal preference for westies and subsequently their abundant featuring in her works. This evening scene against a street of boutiques and galleries echoes several in Lovely's collection, a rehearsed tonal "mood" of cool yellows and blues, with muted, limited coloring capturing half-light after sunset, before the night sky turns dark. Dimensions: Not Specified | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Bluffton Oyster Roast](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/bluffton-oyster-roast/) - This deeply cobalt evening image is another of Lovely’s voyeuristic windows on a moment, feeling, and culture, immortalizing not just an event but the identity and personality of place and people. The Lowcountry’s warmest community moments are marked with oyster roasts, and here the viewer is invited in, approaching the crowd of "amused people" as she describes, among open tables, in the act of preparing and sharing a meal. Of that sentiment, the artist references Renoir’s Boating Party as inspiration. Like attempting to create fluorescence out of paint as in her Boston Marathon Angels piece, here Lovely was challenged to create the luminescence of hanging halogens and those igniting the smoke with light. Perhaps the most powerful influence is familiarity to those for whom the Bluffton Oyster Company is a longstanding local presence (since 1899), set under the Spanish Moss next to the public boat dock on the May River. Dimensions: 24H x 35W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Baskets in the Window](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/baskets-in-the-window/) - Painted indoors as the tide was rising on a day the artist recalls as “too windy to paint outside,” this piece sets cool highlights against warm shadows, all backlit and softened in afternoon light. Taking advantage of a rented lobster shack in a Nantucket cove, Lovely arranged locally picked flowers with two signature items featured in coastal paintings throughout her collection: Nantucket Baskets and a Peter Beaton hat. Dimensions: 24H x 36W | Medium: Acrylic on Canvas PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [At the Bar #1 Cadillacs](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/at-the-bar-1-cadillacs/) - The first installment of several "paint marker on paper" works in the Club Erotica collection (#1), this topic was an exploration for the artist during a time when she “needed a shock of life” after experiencing a great deal of loss. Unsure about the ability to capture enough detail painting live in a moving setting (no photography), a proprietor encouraged Lovely, "I hear Picasso did that quite well," which gave the artist "the freedom to trust in paint markers." Reflective of Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère where the Victorian presentation of a risqué setting is primarily by suggestion and focused on the viewers’ focus. In Lovely’s depiction, the viewers are pictured from behind but showing their direction and intention of focus. Other related details is a modern interpretation of Manet’s tuxedo-influenced corset dress, with this server clad in sleeveless tuxedo top. Without the use of painting onsite or photography, the artist turned to paint markers as a medium and discovered the approach captured the story and setting best through the bold edges of calligraphic lines and color. Dimensions: 5H x 8W | Medium: Paint Marker on Paper PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Albert's Garden](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/alberts-garden/) - A Nantucket staple, the titular “Albert” is the same as was captured in Lovely’s portrait piece, “Albert Shucking Peas.” Here we catch a landscape of his garden with several personal touches. The “whirly gig” (the blue and white figure in the foreground) is not only handmade by the Albert in mention, but is symbolic of those crafted by his father, also a well-known Nantucket character. The playful artisan craft in Nantucket whites and blues, sits perched atop the solar outdoor shower, flanked by the garden gate, and ensconced by greens and blossoms that grow from curated seeds Albert orders annually from a catalog. Painted in plein air. Dimensions: 12H x 16W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Blue Berry Beach](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/blue-berry-beach/) - Inspired by the works of William Merritt Chase, one of Candace Whittemore Lovely’s favorite painters and one of the first American Impressionists, this piece features a model the artist discovered in Sam’s Club. Beyond the primary subject, the focus moves to the artist’s appreciation for beach landscapes and foliage, capturing the sea oats in bloom, trailing vines, and the open feeling of ocean air. Painted on Burkes Beach, Hilton Head Island S.C., this is just one installment in a decades-long body of work categorized by white dresses, the eras of which are differentiated by black, pink, white, or the absence of bows. Dimensions: 30H x 40W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Volcano](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/volcano/) - Recognized by the National Association of Women and included in a publication about exhibits in Washington D.C., this image was created poolside in the U.S. Virgin Islands, featuring a Playboy model during a swimsuit photoshoot. Signatures from the artist include the triangular focus created by the primary subject, the voyeuristic POV of the viewer, contrast and shading emphasizing highlights on the body, and favored red and pink palette appearances, from the center-focused bikini and umbrella to the intermittent depths in the surface of the water. The title “Volcano” captures both the shape and the smoldering energy of the piece. Dimensions: 24H x 36W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Boston Marathon Angels](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/boston-marathon-angels/) - Part of the Lovely's “painting from life” methodology, this piece was created in homage to the Boston Marathon bombing and the response of the community and first responders. The artist describes seeing the images that came out of the events of that day and being reminded of the American Revolution and artistic creations such as Paul Revere’s engraving, “The Bloody Massacre.” With special attention to the “bloom” of explosion, discovering how to create florescence out of paint, and celebration to the cityscape of Boston, specifically to the event location at Boylston Street near Copley Square, the artist describes most notably the images of some of the victims of the tragedy honored at the top of the frame. (She also mentions the proximity to this location of the famed Copley Society of Art.) Described as “an emotional painting process,” Lovely calls this piece her “prayer for Boston.” Dimensions: 14H x 16W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Yawkey Way](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/yawkey-way/) - One of Lovely’s many “painting from life” pieces, Yawkey Way was created for the Copley Society of Art’s Fresh Paint event. Co|So, as it’s familiarly called, is internationally known, but geographically, is a venerated institution in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts. Similarly, Lovely is a known art influence within the culture of the city (“the Grand Dame of Boston painters”) and personally passionate about the area and its icons. Perhaps the pinnacle of which is Fenway Park and it’s enigmatic “onramp,” Yawkey Way. What Lovely describes speaking of painting this piece, is almost as bold as the art itself, expressing her enthusiasm like the bold strokes and electric palette viewers enjoy in this piece, pairing cobalt blues with nearly neon reds and oranges. “It was such an experience to paint,” Lovely says, “as I saw people walking and felt the energy. There’s nothing like being among the crowd just outside of Fenway.” Dimensions: 16H x 20W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Oceanic Breeze](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/oceanic-breeze/) - For those seeking a Candace Lovely painting, this one tells the stand story of a Candace Lovely favorite theme. Keeping each creation unique, the special appearance here is by the wind as emphasized in the painting’s title, though every solid object in the image also tells the story of the wind. The ruffle on the parasol is pulling, hair aflight from beneath a bonneted hat, famous Nantucket basket, skirt so caught by the wind you can see the “sail” affect in the fabric at the waist. As clear as the subject is the wind, the tile and mood here is once again a Lovely entendre, as the breeze speaks also to the feel of the spirit and body language set free by a walk at sea. Dimensions: 46H x 36W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Nantucket Dune Pass](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/nantucket-dune-pass/) - Lovely invites the viewer into the “feeling” of walking the Rosa Rigosa covered dunes of Jettes beach, the June blooms fully facing the lens as pink as the parasol descending toward them. The sky is offset between the muted purples of the horizon and the “fascination of sunlight,” as Lovely describes,” entertaining you with prismatic colors.” For this and similarly spirited pieces, the artist emphasizes a motivation of capturing “the play of light as it contrasts between warm and cool, light and color, all presented and attracting you in this image of two women strolling the dunes under hats and pastel parasols.” Dimensions: 25H x 30W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Nantucket Main](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/nantucket-main/) - This painting is the artist’s statement of the charm of Nantucket’s Main Street and the need for its preservation. This scene depicts the artist herself in signature setting and accessories – white summer dress, wide-brimmed hat, surrounding florals, toting Nantucket baskets and accompanied by her westie, the star of several in her pets collection of works. Lovely chose soft morning light for this piece to feature the feel of island farm trucks delivering locally grown flowers and vegetables while patrons browse, the artist choosing the northeast’s iconic blue hydrangeas from the Nantucket Wild Flower Farm. Dimensions: 26H x 36W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Spencer Hollow Snowfall](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/spencer-hollow-snowfall/) - One of three Lovely-painted angles of Vermont farms near her childhood home, each in a dense, inviting fall of snow, this vantage shows the same warm, working lights, this time breaking through the twilight. A horse in the paddock waits for supper where the artist used to ride with the family from the stone house. The barn from Lovely’s Four O’clock Milk sitting just behind the farmhouses pictured here. Compare also to the piece Spring Brook Farm Twilight. Dimensions: 24H x 30W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Harbor Symphony in White](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/harbor-symphony-in-white/) - The artist incorporated the term ‘symphony’ into the title here “because there are so many notes, and it was very challenging to work them all together,” as Lovely recalls. The light and shadow of each banister column and slats on chairs companion the light and dark side-by-side strokes in the palm fronds and trunk. With same binoculars in hand as in the painting Advantage Point, and the same backwards positioning in chair to depict the childlike spirit, the artist describes a viewpoint that, “evokes memories of an antebellum era,” and a traditional sense of the feminine island character, “looking out to see for the arrival of her love.” Of several images like it incorporating a female subject with bow, parasol, and white dress, posed on a veranda, this was Lovely’s first, completed in 1984. Dimensions: 23H x 35W | Medium: Oil on Canvas PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [The Nutcracker](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/the-nutcracker/) - Completed when Lovely bought her Fenway studio #110, this piece spotlights the obvious title-based nutcracker in vivid detail while muting his equally prized surrounding cast of characters. “The nutcracker was from Germany,” Lovely notes, “the Swiss doll was collected after graduating from college on a European tour, the little boy in a hat was my grandmother’s doll Giuseppe, the boy on the rocking horse was a figure from Sunday school, that’s a Nantucket doll on the right, and I also included my ballet shoes and my mother’s music box.” Lovely also mentions apologizing to someone about this painting being unfinished in her opinion, adding after a pause, “my Christmasses are never finished.” She also says poignantly, “Painting is like a series of mistakes that you make beautiful; that represents the way you look at life, and paint.” Dimensions: 19H x 24W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Where are the Cookies?](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/where-are-the-cookies/) - Vaguely reminiscent of the mood and setting behind The Singing Butler by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano, this piece offers the frivolity and carefree spirit of being in the moment, seaside. One of the very few in the Lovely repertoire where the subject(s) is making direct eye contact with the viewer (albeit canine), that candor adds to the amusement. Double your pleasure with the reflected expression of unrepentant curiosity in the wet sandy beach. Creamer, cup, and saucer all being a little topsy-turvy reinforce the playful innocence of the hunt for elusive treats by artist’s beloved and oft-painted westies. Dimensions: 24H x 30W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Spring Brook Farm Twilight](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/spring-brook-farm-twilight/) - More than just the visuals of cool snowfall and warmly lit path, this painting of the Cabot farm near the artist’s childhood home in Reading, Vermont captures a memory and an idea. “It’s one of my favorite subjects,” Lovely says, “the lights on in the barn letting you know someone is up at the house. It’s a way of life, and it’s warm, embracing, and something to look up to.” Compare also to Spencer Hollow Snowfall and Four O’clock Milk. Dimensions: 8H x 10W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Latesha](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/latesha/) - One of the most settled and substantive of Lovely’s “fair women on beachscapes,” this model is featured without the standard bows and baskets, and instead with conch and upturned “puff” hat, leaning against a calico of indigos and golds, which pull in the highlighted tones of the sea oats separating sand from sea. In the foreground further broken oats, vines, and reeds are added with chunky brush strokes, an appealing contrast to the elegant and effortless femininity of the primary subject. Dimensions: 11H x 14W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Harbor View Porch](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/harbor-view-porch/) - A different twist on a well-rehearsed Lovely them, this veranda vantage point painting is more settled in body language and refined in realistic, polished detail. Having the staple imagery in common – summer dresses, bows, hats, the pink parasol, and Nantucket basket – the differences show up here in the settled positioning in each of the models and the near photographic detail on the polished porch and bannister. Another touchstone is the gaze out to sea, this time times two, reflecting not only the feel and the potential but the literal light in the painted highlights on subjects’ faces. Dimensions: 10H x 12W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Breezing Along](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/breezing-along/) - This is a Candace Lovely thesis sentence. From top to bottom: Prismatic light in a sky background creating overlap. Pink parasol, with the sunlight offering shadow and translucence in the delicate pink fabric. Fair woman figure as central subject – both “main,” and centrally situated, draped in reams of flowing white ruffles and pleats, offering added femininity with the off the shoulder drop. Sand and sea surrounding the central figure is still the star. Last but not least, the inclusion of a symbolic visual as the model is both literally reflecting in the tidepool and figuratively reflective in her stroll down the shore. Ironically, this painting which incorporates every Candace Lovely signature element, ended up with a non-traditional color for the artist’s actual signature. The piece is signed in a crème gold, as opposed to her trademark Lovely red. Dimensions: 38H x 44W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Port Royal Reader](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/port-royal-reader/) - Though a familiar theme for Lovely with the lounging “fair woman” figure, with hat, bow, book, and nearly translucent pink parasol, Lovely also turns the dial here with vivid impact on both style and palette. Compared to traditional beachscapes with lounging subject, this piece is more Fitzgerald than Laura Ashley, more rugged than rose kissed, more electric than pastel. In lieu of her traditional rosa rugosa and trailing vine, here the viewer is treated to stark, straw toned reeds filling the powdery dunes, adding a nearly daffodil yellow to the cool coastal afternoon. Emphasizing the color choice, the sun-soaked blooms in the lower right set a scene that unrolls over the untamed dunes beyond. Setting a scene of both solitude in the foreground and possibility in the expanse of sky and sea at the top, this piece uniquely captures the feel of solitude at the sea. Dimensions: 50H x 46W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Afternoon Novel](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/afternoon-novel/) - This image of a reader lounging at Biddeford Pool in Maine offers a variation from the artist’s more familiar palette in the muted and tanned pinks of the granite rocks. The mood and visuals maintain familiar Lovely themes, whether the literal visuals of parasol, hat, white dress, Nantucket basket and “fair woman” form, or the more ethereal subjects of setting and mood. The artist notes the shadow created by the parasol behind the image, offering an overlap which sets up the composition energy of diagonals. Lovely also notes, this painting features her “longest standing model. I cut my teeth on this model.” Dimensions: 25H x 35W | Medium: Oil on Canvas PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Advantage Point](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/advantage-point/) - This evocative scene is one of several Lovely paintings pairing flowing coastal femininity with sprawling northeastern porches and sea views. As reinforced by the double entendre in the title, this iteration more targeted on an oceanic line of sight and the feeling of the “call of the sea.” Both of those themes are gently punctuated by the binoculars in the subject’s hands. Lovely multiplies the gifts of the island here with lush over-abundance. Blooms are prolific and a darker red than the traditional pink, the single sail now is now four or more with small details on the horizon, the sea is not only centric but crashing in plumes of waves, and folds of fabric proliferating over the arm of the chair where the subject is – like the painting Summer Whites – turned around in her chair, capturing a childlike spirit. Dimensions: 28H x 38W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Summer Whites](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/summer-whites/) - The heart of the artist here was capturing this young woman engaging with the chair as children often do, “sitting in it any way but right,” intent on capturing that playfulness and lighthearted youthful spirit. Beyond that, the body language shows a watchfulness, which Lovely points out is a common theme among the female character on the island. Watching for the ships at sea to come in. All the signatures are front and center – the contrasting folds of the light and flowy feminine skirts, hat in hand, Nantucket basket, Nantucket garden, and surrounding sea. Of special note, is the artist’s careful craft of capturing the light and shadow of both banister and latticework. Dimensions: 28H x 35W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [Brant Point Walk](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/brant-point-walk/) - Brant Point is one of the most painted, photographed, and collected images on Nantucket, joined here by one of Lovely’s more frequently used models. Filled in the foreground with rosa rugosa, sweet peas and other natural flowers, all the Candace Lovely cast of characters are in full featured form here from pink parasol, “puff” hat, Laura Ashley dress, Nantucket basket, and “fair woman form,” to sails, blooms, sand, sky, and sea. Dimensions: 23H x 35W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
- [278 Bluffton Peach Stand](https://www.candacelovely.com/product/278-bluffton-peach-stand/) - Lovely challenged herself with this roadside plein air to “get out there and celebrate local farmers and local color” capturing this vibrant scene. Perched on a busy highway just before Hilton Head Island visitors get back to the interstate that runs from Florida to Massachusetts, this produce stand is a familiar sight in the community of Bluffton South Carolina. The artist felt it important to reproduce the feeling of the hand-lettered signs and the electric palette of bright orange peaches and tomato reds under cheerful beach umbrellas. The American flag adds the element of nostalgia and valor woven deep into the feel of this burgeoning small town. Dimensions: 11H x 14W | Medium: Oil on Linen PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONSPURCHASE ORIGINAL Click below to purchase reproductions at Fine Art America! For inquiries to purchase this original art piece, complete the Contact Us form below.
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