WILLIAM IRVINE
Two Flags
oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches
SOLD July 5 – July 30, 2025
William Irvine: Soundings
Artist Reception: Wednesday, July 9, 5–7pm
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art is pleased to present “Soundings,” our twelfth solo show for painter William Irvine from July 5 – August 4, 2025. Irvine, who turned ninety-four this year, produced a remarkable thirty oil paintings, as well as eight porcelain plates and vases he created with Blue Hill potter Mark Bell. An exhibition catalog is available.
Never satisfied by depicting just what he sees, Irvine, whose seascapes are an integral part of his oeuvre, continually reinvents this traditional motif as he did in Two Flags and Reconstruct Seascape by deconstructing the elements of a seascape. In the catalog Irvine states:
“Recently, I have been looking at the objects that make up a seascape, deconstructing its parts—sails, gulls, ropes, flags, clouds—and rearranging them to keep the feeling of that place without the barrier of visual recognition. Objects are out of place; lines suggest a boat which could never float except on my canvas. I want the final presentation to have an emotional truth.” — William Irvine
Book Launch & Reading: Wednesday, July 23 at 5pm
“Four Old Men Writing Together” Irvine is also one of four authors in a newly released book titled “Four Old Men Writing Together.” Four old men—William Irvine, Marc Pelletier, Len Charney, and Kevin Fahey—have gathered together the best of their true and true-enough stories. The perspective that age has given the four imbues these tales with wisdom, clarity, and humor. Two of the old men are from are from Maine, an architect and an artist; two are from Massachusetts, an architect and a college administrator. They met remotely for three years under the guidance of Margery Irvine who was happy to lead from behind. Irvine’s painting Evening Walk, which shows a man and his dog looking out to sea, graces the cover of the book.
WILLIAM IRVINE: Soundings
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