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ESSO, 1959. Oil on canvas, 14 x 24". University of Maine Museum of Art, The Kenduskeag Fund. north light to aid in the completion of his matinals. He might have been following Constable’s dictum as handed down through historian Kenneth Clark: “Some drama of light and shade must
underlie all landscape compositions, and give the keynote of feeling in which the scene was painted.” For the most part, the pigment in an Etnier painting is laid on flat and uni-
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form, an approach that perfectly suited the still waters and profound shadows that often caught his eye. That said, the artist often turned to the palette knife or the end of his paintbrush to build up the surface or scratch in a pattern. In tropical scenes his impasto brushwork sometimes mimics the texture of the walls of the buildings. If considered by many critics to be a romantic, Etnier was also something of a documentary artist. Whether painting the old Union Station in Portland, a bar in Isle of Pines, Cuba, or a conch fisherman in Nassau, the Bahamas, he was true to the particulars of a locale. David Etnier, who is deputy commissioner of Maine’s Department of Marine Resources, points out how in one of his father’s paintings the smoke from a tugboat blows ahead of the vessel as it proceeds up river, which happens when the wind blows from astern. He also notes the liberties his father took from time to time, such as leaving out the lines between telephone poles in a painting of a gas-and-bait boat shop on Florida’s inland waterway.
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