Ink Spot Studio — "Stone Harbor" Lifeguard Chair Original Monoprint | Signed | Haddonfield, NJ

Description

The lifeguard chair stands empty on the sand, beneath a bright chrome-yellow sun that hangs in the upper corner of the scene. Two gulls are nearby, and a life preserver ring leans against the leg of the chair, while beach grass grows at the edges. 

The artist has included the name of the location — "Stone Harbor" — written below the image in the same style as the artwork itself. The Ink Spot studio in Haddonfield, New Jersey, produced these monoprints as original works. Each piece is hand-printed and hand-painted, created one impression at a time, and signed on the back. As a result, no two prints are identical.

Hunter’s Notes

It was January, cold and snowing. I found myself in a Salvation Army store in Washington, Michigan — the kind of place you visit when the sky has been gray for six weeks, and there’s nothing else to do but drive somewhere and look at things.

I came across a bin filled with various pictures: framed photographs, tourist prints, the usual assortment. One image caught my attention. It featured an empty lifeguard chair on a beach in Stone Harbor, with a bright chrome yellow sun in the corner and two gulls nearby. This simple summer scene resonated deeply with me, especially during a Michigan January.

Midwesterners understand this feeling. There’s a longing for warm pavement, open water, and a sky that isn’t the color of a wool blanket. Discovering a picture like this in January brings a special kind of hope — the reasonable certainty that summer will return, the lifeguard chair will be occupied again, and there will be a day when this scene feels ordinary once more.

The Archive Record — JLM-260035

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