Born in New York in 1916, Eyvind Earle began his prolific career at the age of ten when his father, Ferdinand Earle, gave him a challenging choice: read 50 pages of a book, or paint a picture—every day. Earle choose both. From the time of his first one-man showing in France at age 14, Earle’s fame had grown steadily. At the age of 21, Earle bicycled across country from Hollywood to New York, paying his way by painting 42 watercolors. In 1937, he opened at the Charles Morgan Galleries, his first of many one-man shows in New York. Two years later at his third consecutive showing at the gallery, the response to his work was so positive that the exhibition sold out and the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased one of his paintings for their permanent collection. 

After about 15 years creating animated art, Earle returned to painting full time in 1966, and kept working until the end of his life. In addition to his watercolors, oils, sculptures, drawings and scratchboards, he began making limited edition serigraphs in 1974. Eyvind Earle had a totally original perception of landscape, synthesizing seemingly incongruent aspects into a singularly distinctive style which is at once mysterious, primitive, disciplined, moody and nostalgic. He captures the grandeur of simplicity of the American countryside, and represents these glimpses of the American scene with a direct lyric ardor. His landscapes are remarkable for their suggestion of distances, landmasses and weather moods. “For 70 years,” Earle wrote in 1996, “I’ve painted paintings, and I’m constantly and everlastingly overwhelmed at the stupendous infinity of Nature. Wherever I turn and look, there I see creation. Art is creating ... Art is the search for truth.”