
Morning Mist on Rt. 9, Kennebunk
Oil on canvas · 24 × 36 in
$3,500Original Work
Explore original paintings by Douglas H. Caves Sr., shaped by Maine roads, water, weather, and the measured light of familiar places.

Maine Places
Maine has a way of making ordinary structures and weather feel memorable. A road disappearing through morning mist, a familiar street in Kennebunkport, or water under a changing sky can carry more than a view. It can bring back the pace of a season, a drive taken many times, or the particular quiet that makes a place feel like home.
Doug Caves approaches those subjects with attention rather than nostalgia. His paintings stay close to the visual facts of a place, then allow atmosphere, scale, and shifting color to do their work. A house, a road, or a stretch of water becomes an invitation to look longer, not a souvenir of a location.
For a collector, that makes a Maine landscape a lasting presence in a room. The work can recall a known place, but it also has enough ambiguity to keep opening up over time, in different light and from different distances.
Choosing A Painting
Sometimes the connection is immediate. A collector may know Kennebunk, remember a particular route, or feel at home with the weathered architecture and open spaces of the coast. The painting does not need to reproduce an exact memory to matter. A low sky, a turn in the road, or a band of water can be enough to bring the feeling of a place back into focus.
Morning Mist on Rt. 9, Kennebunk and South Street, Kennebunkport, ME begin with named Maine locations, yet each keeps room for a viewer’s own associations. That balance helps the work live beyond a single trip or season.
A landscape can give a room somewhere to look without asking everything around it to become themed or coordinated. The most useful starting point is not whether every color matches. It is whether the painting has the right weight on the wall, whether the scene keeps your attention, and whether the room has space for it to be seen clearly.
Use the listed dimensions to picture the work in place. A photograph of the wall, a rough measurement, and the distance from which you will usually see the painting are enough to begin a practical conversation with the studio.
Doug’s Maine subjects are not polished postcard scenes. They hold cloud cover, mist, reflected light, and the plain structures that make a landscape lived-in. That attention to weather gives the work a different rhythm from a purely decorative coastal image. It can feel quiet from across the room, then more complex as you notice edges, surface, and the relationships between color.
Spring Morning on the Kennebunk carries that sense of a place coming into view. It is an original acrylic painting, with the material presence and decision-making that an online reproduction cannot fully convey.
A Maine landscape can stand on its own or find a natural conversation with paintings of fields, houses, water, and roads. The connection does not need to be literal. A shared attention to light, weather, and architecture can make works feel coherent while still letting each one retain its own character.
Start with the work that continues to draw you back. The studio can help with the details that follow, including additional photographs, framing, availability, collection, delivery, and a possible studio visit. The point is to make the decision clearer, not more complicated.
Buying From The Studio
Open the painting that makes you pause. The title, medium, dimensions, and current status are there to help you move from an initial response toward a real decision.
Consider the wall, viewing distance, and daylight or lamplight around it. A quick photograph of the space can make scale and placement easier to discuss.
Contact the studio about a painting’s availability, framing, collection, delivery, or a visit. You will get a clear answer from the people closest to the work.

A Wider New England
Explore original paintings of New England houses, fields, roads, water, and weather, each grounded in the character of a particular place.
Explore original landscapes →A Painting Of Your Own
If the place you want to hold onto is personal, a commissioned landscape offers a different path. Doug welcomes conversations about a remembered view, a family place, or a stretch of coast that continues to matter.
A few photographs, a sense of the season or light you remember, and the room where the painting may live are enough to begin. The resulting work is not a mechanical copy. It is an original response to the place and the feeling you want it to carry.
Explore landscape commissions →Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Each available work on this page is a one-of-a-kind painting by Douglas H. Caves Sr. The individual listing shows its medium, dimensions, price, and current status.
Yes. The studio can provide additional photographs, discuss framing and scale, and answer questions about availability, collection, delivery, or a studio visit.
Start with the work that holds your attention, then consider the wall, viewing distance, and light in the room. A photograph and rough wall measurement can make a conversation about scale much more useful.
The catalogue reflects each painting’s current status. If a work has found a home, the studio can help you discover related available work or discuss a commissioned landscape based on a meaningful place.
Browse the available work or contact the studio about a painting you have in mind.