A ca. 1928 Louis D. Norton pastel on paper, figure in a western desert landscape with a stormy sky and a tornado touching down, signed lower right, LD Norton 1928.
Image 10” x 18”
Frame 17.25” x 25”
Condition: foxing and mildew to surface
CT Transfer Fee $10
Louis Doyle Norton (1868-1940) grew up in Providence, R.I., (1868 - 1940) was active/lived in Maine, New Hampshire. After studying art in Paris at the Academie Julian, returned to RI and set up his first studio. In 1906, he arrived in Kennebunkport and became enchanted with the area. Two years later he built a home and studio at Turbat’s Creek for his mother and himself.
Known for rural landscape, beach, marine, rural genre, buildings and coastal view painting.
Louis D. Norton Studio at Kennebunkport Historical Society
Norton painted in oils and watercolors but came to prefer pastels. There are more than 250 Norton paintings extant in southern Maine, many are of local scenes. He also painted several murals for homes and public buildings in Kennebunkport.
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