Oil on board, 2006, signed at lower right, inscribed and titled on the verso, retaining gallery label, presented in a gilt plein air frame.

Board 10 x 12 in.; Frame dimensions 16 1/2 x 18 1/4 in.

Morris & Whiteside Galleries, Hilton Head, South Carolina

Born in Boston, Michael B. Karas is a nationally recognized marine and landscape artist. He graduated from the New England School of Art & Design. Karas has lived in Cape Ann, Massachusetts; on the coast of Maine; and, since 2004, now calls the South Carolina Lowcountry home.

The sea remains his greatest inspiration:
"I love watching the sea. The waves, which seem to originate from the horizon, build larger and larger. Ultimately, the water crests and topples over producing the excitement of onrushing surf. Then, the whole scene repeats again and again. Over my lifetime as an artist, thousands of hours have been spent mesmerized by the sea’s eternal rhythm. In many of my seascape paintings, the churning surf is depicted erupting in an explosion of foam against the unyielding granite shore."

Karas has exhibited widely, showing work at the Delaware Art Museum, Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, Maine; Spartanburg Art Museum, South Carolina; Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia; Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, Maryland; Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut; Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island; and many others.

Good estate condition.