ARTIST: Mitch Billis (Montana, born 1937)
NAME: Wiscasset Porch (titled on verso)
MEDIUM: oil on paper
CONDITION: Excellent. No visible inpaint under UV light. Framed under glass.
SIGHT SIZE: 10 x 14 inches / 25 x 35 cm
FRAME SIZE: 18 x 22 inches / 45 x 55 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
PROVENANCE: Gleason Fine Art (has gallery label on verso)
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
SKU#: 116752
WARRANTY: 7 days returns accepted if item doesn't match description

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BIOGRAPHY:
Boothbay Harbor artist Mitch Billis loves to paint Maine and Italy. In both places, he finds the flower-draped porches, snug harbors, and time-worn buildings that attract his keen eye. Billis sees life as a continuum of learning: “If you are being honest about what and how you paint, learning to see keeps on
forever.” His own life is testimony to this idea of continual learning.As a young boy in Frankfort, New York, Billis loved sketching the people and objects around him, but his family discouraged him from choosing art as a career. With painting always in the back of his mind, he earned degrees successively in
engineering and mathematics.After eight years as a math professor, Billis reached an epiphany while participating in a painting workshop: “In the first 10 seconds, when I saw those colors start to blend, I knew that painting was what I wanted to do.” He dropped everything, packed his life in a U-Haul and his
four kids in a car, and moved east to begin his career as an artist.Not many would have succeeded, but Mitch Billis did. Today Billis is one of the most recognized and recognizable artists in Maine. Along the way, he has mentored many young artists, including his wife, fellow artist Kathleen Billis.