🔥 Fine California Plein Air Seascape Oil Painting, Big Sur

Description: This is a masterful and Fine California Plein Air Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting on Linen, by the renowned California plein air painter, and retired NFL Los Angeles Rams player, David Chapple (b. 1947.) This artwork depicts an enchanting and vivaciously detailed coastal seascape scene in Big Sur, near the Little Sur River, which is located on the Central Coast of California. A vivid turquoise hued ocean, with fluffy white cloud cover above highlights the background, while a majestic coastline, with ice plant and colorful wildflowers are speckled across the foreground. Chapple is a true master of his medium and creates a vivid and magnificent image that can be appreciated from across a room. Signed: "David Chapple" in the lower left corner. Additionally, this piece is titled on the verso: "Little Sur Coastal." Approximately 14 5/8 x 17 3/4 inches (including frame.) Actual artwork is approximately 11 x 14 inches. This piece likely dates to the 2020's. Priced to Sell. Acquired in Orange County, California. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About the Artist: David Chapple Born: 1947 - Palo Alto, CaliforniaKnown for: Wildlife etching, sport figure portrait painting, sculpture David Chapple (Born 1947) is active/lives in California. David Chapple is known for Wildlife etching, sport figure portrait painting, sculpture. Born in 1947 in Palo Alto, California, David Chapple found his artistic talents at a young age. Winning art contests beginning in grammar school, Chapple won the local Langtham Foundation Award. He attended Arcadia High School and went on to the University of California at Santa Barbara earning a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology. While in school in Santa Barbara, Chapple worked as a taxidermist, giving him a special understanding for his developing interest in wildlife painting.Chapple was All American in football at UCSB and played professionally in the National Football League 1969-1975 as a kicker, winning All-Pro while with the Los Angeles Rams in 1972. Beginning in 1970, Chapple started his professional career as an artist while still playing football with the Los Angeles Rams. His retirement from football in 1975 enabled him to turn his attention full-time to his artistic pursuits.His love of nature and taxidermy experience has been artistically rendered in his paintings of a wide variety of birds featured in their outdoor habitats, which he began selling professionally in 1970. His artistic endeavors expanded to the printing medium of etching, creating over 200 sold-out editions in the 1980s.Chapple has won numerous stamp contests for conservation groups including Ducks Unlimited, Quail Unlimited, Trout Unlimited and various state stamps for California, Kentucky, Utah and Idaho. He earned the Golden Teal award by Ducks Unlimited for raising over $3,000,000.00 nationally through the sale of his artwork and the Silver Teal Award for raising over $1,000,000.00 in California.His life-long passion for golf has translated into painting commissions for Jack Nicklaus, ABC Sports, Fred Couples, U.S. Open, U.S. Senior Open, tour events and various country clubs and golf courses around the country.Further extending his artistic talents into sculpture in the 1980s, Chapple created a diverse body of commission work for many corporations and collections including a life-size bronze for the Florence Griffith Joyner Memorial & Dedication.Additionally, the following corporations and groups have included commissioned sculptures by Chapple in their collections:Chiron Corporation, Laguna Audubon, Dupont Center, Foremost Insurance, Albert B. & Bert McKee Award, Ameriflex Corporate Collection, Cornerstone University, Arcadia Methodist Hospital, among others.Chapple's love of historic California landscape painters has inspired his most recent body of work, "Impressions of California,"; the June exhibition at DeRu's Fine Arts in Laguna Beach, California.STATEMENT:Impressions of CaliforniaPainting is my storytelling vehicle. Through my artwork I hope to communicate my feelings, thoughts and observations of California, which has been my home for over fifty years. This series has captured my favorite places with a renewed vision. As wild California shrinks, glimpses of its inherent beauty will hopefully help to inspire us to preserve much of what remains.The now famous "California Light" has attracted artists from Bierstadt and Hill to Gamble, Wendt, Payne and Redmond. California's special light; natural beauty, geographical diversity and great body of historical work done by earlier California painters have inspired my painting. These earlier artists gave us a visual history of a changing California at that time. These current paintings capture our changing California landscape today for future generations.Now, we have to work at finding glimpses of earlier times. Changing skies, light and seasons coupled with California's natural beauty create a never-ending spectrum of artistic choices. A view through eucalyptus to the ocean, a winding dirt road, natural settings within county parks; these are the places I seek out.EXHIBITIONS:Los Angeles Natural History Museum, Palm Springs Desert MuseumWorld Wildlife MuseumLeigh Yawkey Bird Art ShowEaston Maryland Waterfowl ShowOver 400 Gallery shows nationwideSCULPTURE COMMISSIONSFlorence Griffith Joyner Memorial & DedicationChiron CorporationLaguna AudubonDupont CenterAlbert B. & Bert McKee AwardForemost InsuranceAmeriflex Corporate CollectionEagle Crest Country ClubCornerstone UniversityBig Sky CarversArcadia Methodist HospitalPAINTING COMMISSIONSJack Nicklaus/ABC TV Special "The Toughest Holes in Championship Golf Series"Fred Couples Masters Victory Corporate CollectionTorrey Pines Buick OpenPGA Senior Open at PinehurstU.S. Open at Pebble Beach35th, 36th and 37th Annual Bob Hope Chrysler ClassicSandpiper Golf Course at the Bacerra ResortMauna Kea ResortsPelican Hill Golf CourseBighorn Country ClubFirst Skins GameBank of StocktonWorld Wildlife MuseumCONSERVATION & CHARITY GROUPSDucks Unlimited Golden Teal Award, Silver AwardQuail UnlimitedTrout UnlimitedState stamps for California, Kentucky, Utah and Idaho The Painting PunterUCSB Hall of Fame Inducts Former NFL Star Dave Chapple, Now an Esteemed ArtistPIGSKIN TO PALETTE: After graduating as a Gaucho and Pro Bowl-worthy punting for the Los Angeles Rams, Dave Chapple — who’s being inducted into the UCSB Hall of Fame on April 24 — turned his focus to painting and sculpture. There are no punters in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Dave Chapple, who set an unofficial NFL punting record, has no problem with that. “There are guys who aren’t going into the Hall of Fame who had a lot more impact on games than I did punting four or five times,” Chapple says.Chapple roomed with two such players during a preseason camp with the Los Angeles Rams: defensive end Fred Dryer and linebacker Jack “Hacksaw” Reynolds. Not only were they great players, Chapple says, but “I didn’t need a TV, those guys were so entertaining.”Despite his misgivings, Chapple is proud to be going into the UCSB Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame. For one thing, it brings recognition to the abandoned Gaucho football program of the 1960s. Chapple not only punted but also scored points on field goals and conversions as a placekicker. Moreover, it was in Santa Barbara that Chapple began to dream about his future—not as a pro football player, but as an artist.If he had not gone to UCSB, Chapple wonders if he would be making his living as a painter and sculptor today. “USC, Cal, and Oregon all talked to me in high school,” says Chapple, who showed some athletic prowess at Arcadia High. “I didn’t have the confidence to think I could play in the Rose Bowl. UCSB sent me a letter, and I followed up on that.”He thrived on and off the field as a Gaucho. “The experience of small-college football was wonderful,” Chapple says. “You had camaraderie while being involved in something bigger than yourself, but it wasn’t so controlled that all you did was play football. I had freedom because of the setting.”Chapple’s freedom enabled him to take a part-time job at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. “I collected specimens and did bird taxidermy,” he explains. He was so taken by the beauty of the feathered creatures that he began painting them in detail. Waldo Abbott, the museum’s curator of birds, became his critic. “He’d point out my mistakes,” Chapple remembers. “Everything was in place to help me learn.”He was productive for the Gaucho football team, kicking 10 field goals during his sophomore season in 1966. “The national record was nine,” Chapple says, “but that year, Jan Stenerud of Montana State kicked 13.” He also boomed his punts, achieving a career average of 41.8 yards.A highlight of the 1967 season was the first Gaucho football game at Campus Stadium (previously they played 12 miles away at La Playa Stadium): a 64-3 victory over Cal Western. “It was a beautiful field,” Chapple says. “It was like falling down on a mattress.” Later named after Spud Harder, a former UCSB football coach and administrator, the stadium is now a noted soccer venue. It will be the home of the 2010 College Cup, the NCAA soccer championship, next December.Chapple’s football teammates are spearheading an effort to build a gateway to the stadium and name it the Curtice Gate in honor of their late coach, “Cactus” Jack Curtice. “I think that’s very appropriate,” Chapple says. “Jack Curtice gave everything he had. It wasn’t about himself as much as the program. Coaching was only part of it. He put phenomenal energy into things outside of practice.” Among those things was building the stadium.After his last season in 1968—three years before UCSB, citing budget concerns, scuttled the football program—Chapple was the first kicker taken in the NFL draft by the San Francisco 49ers. “I was supposed to replace Tommy Davis as their placekicker and punter, but I slipped a disc in my back,” Chapple says. “I didn’t play for two years; then I signed with the Buffalo Bills.” In the meantime, he became strictly a punter. “You use different muscles,” he says. “You can’t do both [punting and placekicking] over 20 games.”Chapple’s best years as a pro were with the Rams. In 1972, he averaged 44.2 yards a punt, and even more remarkable was his net average (subtracting yardage from returns and touchbacks) of 42.1 yards. He was a Pro Bowl punter that year. After net average became an official NFL statistic in 1991, Oakland’s Shane Lechler was the first punter to surpass Chapple’s performance, in 2007.In a Sports Illustrated article about punters last December, John Ed Bradley wrote: “Despite the punter’s demonstrated strategic importance, he is often pegged as a pasty, emotionally challenged team pariah … ”Chapple did not feel that way with the Rams. Early in the 1972 season, he pounded the football against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field—his five punts sailed an average of 50 yards. “On the flight home,” Chapple recalls, “Merlin Olsen said, ‘Get back here. You’re part of the defense.’ They considered me one of them.”The Olsen brothers, Merlin and Phil, became good friends of Chapple’s. He was surprised and saddened by the death last month of Merlin, the great Hall of Fame tackle. “He was as fine a person as you’d ever want to meet,” Chapple says. “He never said a word about his cancer. It hit me hard. I think of the dinners we’d have out. Some of those evenings, you’d laugh so much you were sore.”Punting and painting were Chapple’s twin pursuits until 1975, when he retired from football and devoted himself to art full-time. He began with wildlife depictions, but now, he says, 80 percent of his work is California landscapes. He works in his Irvine studio six days a week, 10 hours a day. “I don’t have a computer, and I don’t have a radio on,” he says. “I want it quiet.”He has been commissioned to do several works of public art, including a larger-than-life-size bronze sculpture of the late Olympic sprinter FloJo (Florence Griffith Joyner) at the entrance to the Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills.Chapple’s induction into the UCSB Athletic Hall of Fame will take place Saturday evening, April 24, at the Thunderdome. Seven other Gaucho greats are slated for enshrinement: Kim Bryson (swimming), Colman Conroy (track and field), John Dobrott (water polo), Christa Gannon (basketball), Jason Lezak (swimming), Jean Okada-Mueller (tennis), and Todd Rogers (volleyball). Unfortunately, prior commitments will prevent Lezak and Rogers, the 2008 Olympic gold medalists, from appearing in person.

Price: 2750 USD

Location: Orange, California

End Time: 2024-08-16T22:11:49.000Z

Shipping Cost: 45 USD