Collection: Paul Blaine Henrie (1932-1999) Artist Biography and Art Gallery Collection

Paul Blaine Henrie (1932–1999) was an American painter and illustrator who was best known for seascapes and coastal scenes. Born Paul McKinley Henrie in Tampa, Florida, he established himself in 1960 in the artist community of Laguna Beach, California, where he lived in a hillside home with his wife and child.  Henrie later moved to Carmel, California where he became known for his watercolors and palette knife oil paintings of California coastal scenes as well as exotic locales he had visited in Tahiti, Mexico and New Orleans. In works prior to 1961, his signature is "Paul Henrie" or "Blaine". Afterwards, he signed them "Paul Blaine Henrie". Over the years, he has developed a unique and powerful visual language that has become familiar to serious art collectors throughout the world. He reserved his best work for his collectors and several prestigious galleries like the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York.  His works have been included by Vincent Price in his "American Collection", and in the collections of England's Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon. Among his Hollywood collectors were the late actors Glenn Ford and George Montgomery. It is now almost universally agreed that Paul Blaine Henrie is destined to figure in the history of American Art. He is listed in Davenport, The Artist's Bluebook, California Watercolors: 1850-1970, Carmel Art Association: A History, Carmel Art Association: 75th Anniversary Exhibition Catalog; Carmel Art Association: Legends and Legacies, 1927-2007.  Henrie also illustrated two books for young adults, Legendary outlaws of the West (1976) and Legendary Women of the West (1978), and wrote a how-to art book titled Painting in the South Seas. Paul Blaine Henrie was living in Newport Beach, California at the time of his death on October 18, 1999.