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William Ross Searle was born and raised on Martha’s Vineyard Island. A tenth-generation Island-born native, his earliest Vineyard ancestors date back to 1670, when Henry Luce and his wife Remember Litchfield first came to the Island. They moved from Scituate, Massachusetts, settling in Tisbury (now West Tisbury) where Henry became one of the first selectmen of the town. Searle grew up in Edgartown, attending Edgartown schools into high school and eventually graduating from Plainville, Massachusetts, High School. His early experience with Island life and changing seasons is strongly etched in his paintings and drawings. He works comfortably in both acrylic and watercolor mediums. He paints the perimeter of the seashore where light, weather, and tide unite with human activity in a rich pronouncement of man and his life. |
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Gay Head
1992 |
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| The quintessential Martha’s Vineyard scene, at one with Aquinnah as if to celebrate the special nature of this unique part of paradise and herald the continuing presence of its earliest inhabitants, the Wampanoags. Martha’s Vineyard without the Gay Head cliffs? Unimaginable. |
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Winters Spell
1987 |
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| At a lonely beach on Chappaquiddick sits a boathouse. The stillness of this particular winter day, the bright sandy beach, and the clear blue sky captures a moment in time that takes one’s breath away. The chill of the day, the intense daylight, and the extreme stillness makes one feel alive in a way that is near impossible to replicate. |
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Parsonage Pond Reflections
2005 |
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| Parsonage Pond is the ultimate pastoral scene-perfect in every way. I have done numerous paintings of this site, and each time I experience a high level of excitement. It represents as clearly as any painting I would do the essence of the town of West Tisbury-the Island home town of my earliest ancestors on the Vineyard (1670). |
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Winter Solstice
1983 |
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| On a small rise in Menemsha sits this house overlooking a marsh and a creek. Beyond are Menemsha Beach and the ocean. In between are assorted boats, debris, and human wanderers. |
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Afternoon Walk
2000 |
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| While walking a lonely beach on Menemsha Pond, I was startled by the bright contrast of beaches and dunes falling to the shoreline in relation to the pond.
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Distant Music
1983 |
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| A quiet, abandoned dam site on a mill pond in West Tisbury, where Aaron Copeland and Benjamin Britten once sat and wrote music. Can you hear the music in the soft breeze and gentle gurgling of the cascading waterfall? |
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Autumn is in the Wind
1980 |
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| Remnants of another age, an old mill house and barn sit beside a pond with a larger barn and dam further along a river coursing its way through West Tisbury, wending its way to the sea. This is “Old Island” the way it used to be, out of date and usefulness-except in our minds where simpler times and nostalgia reign supreme, where we attempt to hold on to things most dear to us. |
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Path to Lambert`s Cove
1983 |
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| It was a very cold winter day. I was walking along this secluded path on Martha's Vineyard. The sky was clear and intensely blue. The oak trees were bright and silvery in appearance, the path, a light gray color, and the dead leaves on the ground, a golden brown. The intense cold air entered my lungs with each breath I took, without relief. To say the effect was breathtaking would be to understate the obvious. To be alone on this magical Island, on a day like that, as I was so often, growing up as a native Vineyarder, seems to be as close to heaven as is possible, here on earth. |
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| Searle earned his B. F. A. degree in painting and drawing at Massachusetts College of Art and his M. F. A. degree at Rhode Island School of Design. His paintings span four decades and are included in over five hundred private, corporate, institutional and museum collections throughout the United States and Europe. | |
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