Jack "Jack" Gable is a Maine realist painter and muralist whose light-infused canvases span foggy coastal landscapes, classic automobiles, historic portraits, and large-scale commissions for the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Trained at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and shaped by a career styling the Trans-Am Firebird at General Motors, Jack Gable brought industrial precision and a storyteller's instinct to Maine when he left automotive design behind in the late 1970s — and never looked back.
Over four decades in Woolwich, he has built a practice defined by technical fluency, adventurous scale, and an abiding love for the atmospheric quiet of the Maine coast. Represented by Portland Art Gallery, Jack Gable creates paintings that move from the monumental to the intimate with equal confidence.
What does a man who styled muscle cars and painted a 120-foot mural before he'd ever painted one discover when he finally turns toward the fogbound harbors of coastal Maine?