Artist Identification - EJ Whitney
My wife sent me a link to a painting that caught her eye. It had all of the colors that we have been working into the lounge in our house. It was a 44in x 34 oil painting that was labeled as “Vertical Marshy Oil Painting”.
It looked great so I decided to buy the painting. At this point, neither the seller nor I could read the name of the artist that had painted the picture. I brought the painting home and hung it in a prominent location above our fireplace mantle.
While I was hanging the artwork, I noticed that in the bottom-left corner of the image, the paint looked a little different than the rest of the image. This caught my attention, but I couldn’t quite make out if it was a signature and if so, what the signature said.
I decided to play my best CSI detective and started adjusting different color settings in google. After a while of doing this, I was able to tease out a name - EJ Whitney. This finally gave me something more concrete to look for.
Once I was able to get the artist’s name, I was able to tie it back to a few other pieces of art. I have found a few other pieces of art by this same artist who I believe is Ellen Jane Whitney (1950-2019). I believe the following pieces of art are also from the same artist:
If anybody else has any other information about these paintings or has information about Ellen as an artist, please reach out. I would love to learn more about Ellen and get a better understanding of how she painted.