About Stephen Etnier
Stephen Morgan Etnier was an American realist painter, and an active painter for six decades. His work is distinguished by a mixture of realism and luminism, favoring industrial and working scenes, but always imbued with atmospheric light. Geographically, his career spanned the length of the eastern Atlantic and beyond. Etnier's early work of 1930s and 1940s provides a record of his life at the time. In 1969, Etnier was awarded honorary doctorates of fine arts from Bates College and Bowdoin College in Maine. Etnier's work became more architectural, marked by stark geometry, light and shadow, impressionistic figures and accents of color and modern culture.
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