The Ship Yard
From the Collection of Joe Abramo, Princeville, Kauai,
Hawaii.
Growing up in the Abramo household, we all remember Gerry
and her Art. We all recognize this painting as hanging in the dining room
wall.
She told me herself that it was the first oil painting
she completed and it was done in her art teachers studio on Felton Street,
Waltham.
Oil on canvas board 18”x24’ circa mid 1950’s.
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New England Spring
From the Collection of Marsha Abramo, Bristol, VT.
This piece was painted en plein air and early during
her formal training.
Oil on Canvas, 16" x 20", estimated mid 1970's.
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New England Fall
From the Collection of Marsha Abramo, Bristol, VT.
This piece was also done en plein air and early during
her formal training.
Oil on Canvasboard, 18" x 24", estimated mid 1970's.
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The next few paintings are Landscapes/Seascapes from Gerry's Hawaii period.
Hideaways Beach
From the growing collection of my daughter, Jackie Kropp
of San Francisco, CA
A copy also exists with my brother Nick on Oahu HI.
Encouraged to pursue her art while on Kauai, I persuaded
her to do a few landscapes.
This one is of Hideaways, one of my favorite surfing
areas in Princeville, Kauai.
Probably done in Mass. from a photograph, it's 11” x
14”, Oil on canvas board, circa 1994.
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Hanalei Valley
From the Collection of Joe Abramo, Princeville, Kauai,
Hawaii.
Another Landscape from her Kauai Period
Done from the much photographed Hanalei Overlook.
11" x 14", Oil on canvas board circa 1994.
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Hale Moi #111b
From the Collection of Joe Abramo, Princeville, Kauai,
Hawaii.
Painted en plein air during her first visit to Kauai
in 1987. She stayed with us at Hale Moi #111 on the “B” side, hence the
name.
She said it was unfinished. Oil on Canvas, 12” x 16”
circa Spring 1987.
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Hanakapi'ai Falls
A Waterfall on Kauai
This is one of Gerry's landscapes painted from memory
of her stay on
Kauai at her studio in Waltham, MA just prior to moving
to Vermont.
20" x 24" Oil on Canvas board, 2002
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Hideaways at Sunset
From the Collection of Joe Abramo, Princeville, Kauai,
Hawaii.
Another Kauai landscape produced at my urging. Also done
from a photograph in Mass.
11” x 14” Oil on canvas board circa 1994.
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Tunnels Morning
In the collection of Gerry's son, Nick Abramo of Mililani,
Oahu.
8" x 10" oil on Canvas Board
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Secret Beach
In the collection of Mike "Bacci" Lorusso, Ogunquit,
Maine
From a series of photographs of Kauai, 1994, Oil, 8"
x 10"
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Anini - 1987
In the collection of Gerry's son, Nick Abramo
of Mililani, Oahu.
Anini was painted en plein aire late 1986 thru early
1987.
While visiting her son Joe on an extended stay on Kauai.
She had her art supplies with her and Joe built her an
easel out of scrap wood.
He would drop her at the location and come back to pick
her up after a painting session.
Her sessions outdoors always included some time soaking
up the sun.
Oil on Canvas Board, 11" x 18"
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Lumahai Vista
In the collection of Gerry's son, Nick Abramo of Mililani,
Oahu.
Pastel on Paper, 17" x 21"
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Lumahai Lookout
From the growing collection of my daughter, Jackie Kropp
of San Francisco, CA
Another view of Lumahai Beach, as seen from "up above"
"up above" as my mother would often say.
Painted from a photograph shot fom Kuhio Highway along
the north shore of Kauai
Circa mid 90's.
Ke'e Beach
In the collection of Marsha Abramo, Bristol Vermont.
Done au Plein Aire, at the end of the road on Kauai.
Oil on Canvas, 18" x 24", Late 80's.
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Shipwrecks Beach
In the collection of Gerry's son, Nick Abramo of Mililani,
Oahu.
The Shipwreck's Beach painting was a wedding gift to
us, given to us in 1994 or early '95.
I'm pretty sure that one was from a postcard. She knew
I surfed there a lot.
Oil on Canvas, 11" x 14"
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Nip and Tuck
Hanging in Dave Abramo's Mass Auto Outlet Offices in
Worcester Mass.
Depicting aerial combat as described in the John Comer's
book "Combat Crew".
Now being used on the Amazon E-Book cover.
Quoute from the book: Nick Abramo: "Sir, I am wounded."
Staff Sargent Nick Abramo sustained a flak wound to the
foot, on September 9th 1943, during the Lille, France mission.
Nick earned a purple heart in the Ball Turret of the
B17-F "Nip and Tuck".
This was Gerry's painting done during at the end of the
year 2000. Done at Dave's insistence and her resistance.
Gerry was 80 years old and struggling with carpel tunnel
- memory issues - and a little paranoia.
Produced in her artists studio in Rockport, Mass. From
the collection of Dave Abramo, Shrewsbury, MA.
Oil on Canvas, 48"x 36".
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Rough Seas
From the collection of Dave Abramo, Shrewsbury, MA.
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Silver Stream
Gerry painted this in her studio in Waltham, Mass. from
a photogragh.
Oil on Canvasboard, 12" x 9"
From the Collection of Marsha Abramo, Bristol, VT.
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Ski Country
Gerry painted this at her studio in Waltham, Mass.
from a photograph.
It depicts the backroads to Marsha's favorite ski area,
Mad River Glen, Year 2000.
From the Collection of Marsha Abramo, Bristol, VT.
Oil on Canvasboard, 14" x 12".
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Ten Pound Island, Gloucester, Mass.
From the Collection of Joe Abramo, Princeville, Kauai,
Hawaii.
Another gift she presented to me during one of our visits
to MA. One of the few known watercolors.
And one the few that has a title/description on the back
in her own hand.
She switched from her much loved medium of "Oils" because
the smell of the "Turp" was bothering her.
We had gone to visit at her home / studio in Gloucester,
she was very happy during most of her stay there.
Watercolor on paper, 8’ x10” circa 1998.
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Dark Horses
From the growing collection of my daughter, Jackie Kropp
of San Francisco, CA.
Gerry brought this to Kauai on her last visit to me in
the islands as a gift for me.
I then gifted it to my daughter Jackie recently.
It was probably done in Gloucester, Mass, before she
moved to Vermont.
11” x 14”, Oil on canvas board, circa 1998?
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