Don Hatfield (Born 1947) American, Signed and Numbered Serigraph. One of the artist's most famous works, depicting a mother and two children in a paddleboat on a rippling, reflective pond. Signed in pencil bottom right. Numbered LXIII/C (63/100) in pencil bottom left. Certificate of Authenticity attached to the back with the date 2/5/90, the incorrect numbering of 58/100, and the title "Boating." 

Overall Size: 36 1/2 x 40 1/2 in. 

Sight Size: 26 1/2 x 31 in. 

Don Hatfield was born on May 16th, 1947 in Long Beach, California. He studied philosophy, theology, and literature before meeting the portraitist Charles Cross, who inspired him to begin exploring his talents as a painter. After two years of study with Cross he pursued a career in ministry, but in 1979 after meeting portrait painter Ray Kinstler he was convinced to move to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to pursue painting once again. Hatfield eventually moved back to Los Angeles where his style was influenced by his last mentor Sergei Bongart, as well as the works of Edward Henry Potthast, William Glackens, Maurice Prendergast, Joaquin Sorolla, and John Singer Sargent. From 1987 to 2004 he worked as a contract painter for an art publishing company before finally going solo, and continues to sell original works as well as prints through his website.

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