Download or read book Monhegan the Artists Island written by Jane Curtis and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lavishly illustrated book, the authors have gathered a fascinating selection from 148 artists, some relatively unknown, others due for rediscovery, and many whose work is respected worldwide, such as Rockwell Kent, George Bellows, Edward Hopper, the Wyeths (N.C., Andrew, and Jamie), and Robert Henri.
Download or read book The Art of Monhegan Island written by Carl Little and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the artistic and cultural roots of the special appeal that the island of Monhegan in Maine has held over a broad range of artists who have resided there, some of them year-round for long periods, others who summered there or lived there only briefly. Includes examples in color of the works of 80 artists, including Wyeth (Jamie), Bogdanov, Bellows, Frederick, Henri, Hopper, and Kent.
Download or read book A Year on Monhegan Island written by Julia Dean and published by Ticknor & Fields. This book was released on 1995 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-color photoessay captures life among members of the close-knit community on Monhegan Island, a small island off the coast of Maine, from the tranquil isolation of their winters to the huge influx of tourists during the summer season.
Download or read book Counterpoint written by Emily Grey and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mid to late 20th century was a pivotal moment on Monhegan, when, following the end of the Second World War, modernist painters came to form the core of the island's art community. Four artist couples came to Monhegan Island at this time: Reuben & Gerry Tam, Moe Oberman & Arline Simon, Jan & Bill McCartin, and Lynne Drexler & John Hultberg. These artists met and married in New York City, their paths converging either through their association with art schools or at gathering places for the avant-garde.Feeling inspired by the place and welcomed by the people, they structured their lives to allow for extended stays on Monhegan year after year so that they would have time for their art. Some pushed the limits of the summer season, arriving as early as April or staying into October, while others made temporary or permanent commitments to year-round residency. Living as they did, in shared spaces and in close proximity while working on the island, their art related in counterpoint, like simultaneous melodies interwoven in a musical composition.The artists showed their work in solo exhibitions and during open studio hours on Monhegan, but many also exhibited together as couples and with other Monhegan artists in Maine and in New York City. Through their commitment to their art, to each other and to the island they became a community. This exhibition explores how these eight artists became interconnected as partners, collaborators, neighbors and friends during the second half of the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Monhegan Museum written by Edward L. Deci and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MONHEGAN MUSEUM: CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS Edward L. Deci, Emily R. Grey, Jennifer G. Pye, and Robert L. Stahl with contributions by James F. O¿Gorman and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. edited by Robert L. Stahl Monhegan Museum of Art & History, Monhegan Island, Maine 2018 THE MONHEGAN MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY was founded in 1968 when automation of the Monhegan Light Station provided the opportunity to acquire the property and transform it into a venue to preserve and display the island¿s rich historical and cultural heritage. As Edward L. Deci, director of the museum for thirty-five years, writes: ¿Remarkably, on this small, isolated island the human history has been extraordinary.¿ The museum now houses a collection of more than 30,000 objects, including nearly 1,500 works of art, many created by some of the giants of American art who have been associated with the 160 year history of the Monhegan art colony.THE MONHEGAN MUSEUM: CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS represents a special commemorative volume that brings together authors whose varied disciplines capture many different aspects of this unusual museum. Essays describe the Monhegan art colony and its artists; the visionaries of the island community who worked together to bring this museum to fruition; the historical buildings of the museum; the programs that have been initiated to ensure sustainability of the buildings and the conservation of the collection; and the history of the Kent-Fitzgerald Historic Artists¿ Home and Studio. Included are approximately ninety full-color reproductions of works from the museum¿s collections and fifty historic images from its archives.
Download or read book Monhegan Island written by Margot Sullivan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-11 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monhegan Island, Maine has historically attracted a number of different visitors and workers, each with their own unique reasons for being there. The natural beauty of Monhegan Island has continuously attracted generations of artists, day-trippers, and summer sojourners. White Head, Pulpit Rock, and Cathedral Woods are names that resonate throughout New England and beyond. Long before the first ferry full of seasonal visitors arrived, the Monhegan Island fishermen had established a permanent community on the island, scratching out an existence on a remote offshore outpost. As early as 1890, prominent artists Robert Henri and George Bellows, followed by Rockwell Kent and Jamie Wyeth, captured the magnificence of Monhegan. They shared the cliffs and coves with the lighthouse keepers, carpenters, lobstermen, and the island people.
Download or read book Edward Hopper s Maine written by Kevin Salatino and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of an exhibition on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, July 15-Oct. 16, 2011.
Download or read book Art Ecology and the Resilience of a Maine Island written by Barry A. Logan and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated catalogue of visual art recording the changing ecology of Monhegan Island, a renowned artist destination off the coast of Maine. With its rugged shoreline, magnificent Cathedral Woods, and rustic cedar-shingled homes, Monhegan Island is quintessential Maine. This historic fishing village situated 10 miles off the coast has long been a haven for artists drawn to the splendor of its ocean vistas and picturesque wildlands and for ecologists fascinated by its complex natural history. Merging art, science, and history, this book explores the broad arc of ecological events on the island—the formation and abandonment of pastureland, forest recovery, and the critical importance of land conservation—through their representation in visual art. Indeed, for well over a century, painters, photographers, printmakers, and cartographers alike have observed and depicted this dynamic landscape. Inspired by a Rockwell Kent painting of white spruce saplings set against blue sea and golden sky, biologist Barry Logan recognized that the island’s ecology could be traced through its artistic depictions across the ages. This collaboration between Logan and Monhegan historian Jennifer Pye and art historian Frank Goodyear yields a new and unprecedented survey of the art of the island through the lens of ecology. This story of Monhegan parallels that of other land conservation efforts throughout the country, yet it is one uniquely well told by island artists, ecologists, historians, and community members.
Download or read book A Century of Women Artists on Monhegan Island written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monhegan Island written by Jan Bailey and published by Blue Tree. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located off the coast of Maine, Monhegan Island has inspired artists and poets for more than two centuries. Through the ages, it has been portrayed as barren, peaceful, and beautiful by some of the most prominent landscape artists of the nineteenth century and today. This carefully selected collection of paintings takes readers on a tour through this mysterious and enchanting island.
Download or read book The Golden Age of Plein Air Painting on Monhegan written by Sally Babylon and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide book introduces you to the island of Monhegan as it was painted by those who made up its first artists' colony in the early decades of the 20th century. With its 25 vintage photographs the book shows the reader or visitor the sites where the artists created the masterpieces of the golden age of plein air painting on Monhegan Island.The author was able to find much the same vantage points from which the artists painted, gives directions to their painting sites and relates anecdotes about the artists and the island. The 20 illustrations of paintings are representative of the many outstanding paintersGeorge Bellows, Robert Henri, Rockwell Kent, and Edward Hopperwho found inspiration here. Also included are background notes on the hostels, homes, and studioswhere the artists lived and worked. A strong sense of place permeatesthis little guidebook, that contains ample references and resources for those who want to find out more about this special place and why it still today draws so many artists and art lovers.
Download or read book Expressive Drawing written by Steven Aimone and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cape Ann and Monhegan Island Vistas written by James F. O'Gorman and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 19th-early 20th century American artists began to gather in summer colonies that stretched from California to New England. In focused recognition of that development, this exhibition groups selected pairs of paintings or prints by artists who worked at very different north-east art colonies at Cape Ann (Gloucester and Rockport), Massachusetts on the one hand, and Monhegan Island, Maine on the other. These locations separated by a hundred miles of ocean became, as did many other contemporary art colonies, important crossroads in the history of American art as they hosted major artists through the years. In the case of these two colonies, figures such as Theresa Bernstein, Eric Hudson, Leon Kroll, Hayley Lever, James Fitzgerald, Lester Stevens, Stow Wengenroth and others visited, and sometimes lived, in both locations. This exhibition includes works by these and other artists from the collections of the Monhegan Museum of Art and History, the Cape Ann Museum, the Rockport Art Association, and private collections. Works by each of these and other artists depicting aspects of either location reflect the differences between the city-size Cape Ann, with its large industrial Gloucester harbor, sizable fishing fleet, and extended Rockport seashore, and by contrast the tiny off-shore island with its amazing cliff formations and smaller harbor and lobster fleet. Published by the Monhegan Museum of Art & History, Monhegan, Maine, to accompany the exhibition of the same name organized by the Monhegan Museum of Art & History and the Cape Ann Museum on view at the MMA&H from July 1 to September 30, 2021, and at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts, from October 23, 2021, to January 16, 2022.
Download or read book Islands of the Mid Maine Coast Vol IV written by Charles B. McLane and published by Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The McLanes have delved into a wealth of primary sources, using old tax assessments, court records, and early maps, to spin their tales of the early settlers of Maine's islands and their descendants. Here is history as it too seldom is in textbooks: colorful, human, downright irresistible. Each volume is replete with rare vintage photos and dozens of maps and will delight all who love islands, or simply a good read.
Download or read book Art of Katahdin written by David Little and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katahdin has been called Maine’s greatest treasure. In addition to the outdoor and sporting tradition that surrounds it, there is a distinct tradition of art. For more than a hundred years, some of the most prominent landscape painters—Marsden Hartley, Frederic Church, John Marin, and many others—have portrayed Katahdin. Art of Katahdin is the first book to catalog this tradition. Filled with hundreds of color artworks this books traces the artists who have worked at Katahdin, from the earliest renderings and maps of the area to contemporary views. The text follows some of the history of the region, as well as the artists’ ties to the mountain.
Download or read book Abraham J Bogdanove 1886 1946 written by Jessica F. Nicoll and published by Spanierman Gallery. This book was released on 1997 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Day of the Artist written by Linda Patricia Cleary and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One girl, one painting a day...can she do it? Linda Patricia Cleary decided to challenge herself with a year long project starting on January 1, 2014. Choose an artist a day and create a piece in tribute to them. It was a fun, challenging, stressful and psychological experience. She learned about technique, art history, different materials and embracing failure. Here are all 365 pieces. Enjoy!
