Photograph of Artist JAMES MORIN
JAMES MORIN
Ogunquit, Maine - United States



Original Artworks (37)

James Morin; Late Autumn Vermont, 2021, Original Painting Oil, 30 x 12 inches. Artwork description: 241 Highway cuts through trees and foliage down a highway in rural Vermont...
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2021
30 x 12 inches (76.2 x 30.5 cm)
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James Morin; Crosswalk, 2022, Original Painting Oil, 30 x 20 inches. Artwork description: 241 Crosswalk to Central Park West...
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2022
30 x 20 inches (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
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James Morin; Wave 1, 2022, Original Painting Oil, 24 x 12 inches. Artwork description: 241 Angry crashing wave...
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2022
24 x 12 inches (61.0 x 30.5 cm)
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James Morin; Dune On Cape Cod, 2021, Original Painting Oil, 20 x 12 inches. Artwork description: 241 Towering dune rises above a beach...
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2021
20 x 12 inches (50.8 x 30.5 cm)
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James Morin; Exit 19, 2022, Original Painting Oil, 24 x 12 inches. Artwork description: 241 On an empty highway and EXIT 19 - which leads who knows where. ...
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2022
24 x 12 inches (61.0 x 30.5 cm)
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James Morin; Skyscape Number 5, 2022, Original Painting Oil, 14 x 6 inches. Artwork description: 241 Colorful sunset beneath storm clouds and dark ocean waves...
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2022
14 x 6 inches (35.6 x 15.2 cm)
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James Morin; Skyscape Number 7, 2022, Original Painting Oil, 14 x 6 inches. Artwork description: 241 Evening sets in with orange blue clouds over blue black ocean...
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2022
14 x 6 inches (35.6 x 15.2 cm)
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James Morin; Skyscape Number 6, 2022, Original Painting Oil, 14 x 6 inches. Artwork description: 241 Orange, blue clouds over peaceful sea...
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2022
14 x 6 inches (35.6 x 15.2 cm)
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James Morin; Skyscape Number 4, 2021, Original Painting Oil, 14 x 6 inches. Artwork description: 241 Misty clouds over quiet sea...
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2021
14 x 6 inches (35.6 x 15.2 cm)
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James Morin; Skyscape Number 3, 2022, Original Painting Oil, 14 x 6 inches. Artwork description: 241 Oranges yellows and blues softly interweaving with one another...
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2022
14 x 6 inches (35.6 x 15.2 cm)
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James Morin; Skyscape Number 2 Sunrise, 2021, Original Painting Oil, 19 x 10 inches. Artwork description: 241 Early morning fiery sunrise with yellows, oranges, crimson, deep purple on a yellowish blue. This is the first scene I saw after waking. ...
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2021
19 x 10 inches (48.3 x 25.4 cm)
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James Morin; Road On A Hill Study, 2021, Original Painting Oil, 14 x 11 inches. Artwork description: 241 An unusual perspective, the movement of the road itself grabbed me A larger painting of this is in the works. ...
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2021
14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
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James Morin; Dune By The River, 2020, Original Painting Oil, 30 x 12 inches. Artwork description: 241 The layers of different textures and brilliant vibrant color enhance the silence of the river...
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2020
30 x 12 inches (76.2 x 30.5 cm)
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James Morin; Approaching Storm Highway..., 2020, Original Painting Oil, 30 x 20 inches. Artwork description: 241 Highway under stormy skies...
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2020
30 x 20 inches (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
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James Morin; Back Road, 2020, Original Painting Oil, 16.5 x 21.5 inches. Artwork description: 241 A road winds through colorful trees which cast shadows onto the street...
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2020
16.5 x 21.5 inches (41.9 x 54.6 cm)
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James Morin; Ogunquit River Sea Grass, 2020, Original Painting Oil, 30 x 12 inches. Artwork description: 241 Quiet, peaceful image of river, sea grassgreen in foreground turning golden in the distancewith majestic tree on the horizon...
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2020
30 x 12 inches (76.2 x 30.5 cm)
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James Morin; Approaching Storm Highway, 2020, Original Painting Oil, 40 x 30 inches. Artwork description: 241 Not just a physical landscape but one of the mind, soul and spirit. ...
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2020
40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
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James Morin; Approaching Storm I, 2009, Original Painting Oil, 30 x 16 inches.
James Morin
Original Oil Painting, 2009
30 x 16 inches (76.2 x 40.6 cm)
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James Morin; Entrance VI, 2008, Original Painting Oil, 19.7 x 9.7 inches. Artwork description: 241   19. 7 ...
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Original Oil Painting, 2008
19.7 x 9.7 inches (50.0 x 24.6 cm)
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James Morin; Entrance V, 2007, Original Painting Oil, 10.7 x 13.7 inches. Artwork description: 241 10. 7 ...
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Original Oil Painting, 2007
10.7 x 13.7 inches (27.2 x 34.8 cm)
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Artist Statement

I am best known for my work in political cartooning which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 and 2017. However, I started painting when I was young, studied at Syracuse University under Jerome Witkin, and never stopped. While cartooning provided an artistic outlet for the daily foibles of politicians and such, painting offers me a means to explore topics more broadly natures supremacy through the majestic, haunting Banyan tree, cultural degradation through the zombie-like TV watcher, and spiritual desolation symbolized by the foreboding highway entrance. My paintings are my reaction to societal progression, at times a caution sign, or at least bemused reflection....