This  20" x 16" framed mixed media piece is titled "Tidal Wash" and is by the late artist Charles Goodhue. 

Artist Information

Goodhue was born in Leominster, Massachusetts on November 24, 1915, and studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, the Massachusetts College of Art, the New England School of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1941, he married his wife, Eleanor, also an artist, and they settled in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where they opened their own advertising agency. In 1976, Goodhue retired to Georgetown, Maine, and turned to his art full-time.

Goodhue worked in many different mediums and styles throughout his lifetime. He is well renowned for developing a technique invented by David Baker called vitreous flux. This method is the application of watercolor to an impenetrable surface such as a Marlite board, to which Goodhue added volcanic ash to the paint. The ash added texture to his representations of Maine’s dynamic surf. In addition to his vitreous flux works, Goodhue also created a series of red barn oil paintings, in which he worked to balance color, geometric forms and composition and create artistic harmony. Most of Goodhue’s works were not of specific locations, but rather evolved from the artist’s appreciation of the beauty and grandeur of the New Hampshire woods, the New England mountains, and the Maine coast which inspired him.

Goodhue’s work has been exhibited at galleries and museums throughout New England, including the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine; the Fitchburg Art Museum; the Worcester Art Museum; Newburyport Art Association; and the New Hampshire Art Association.