'At home with uneasy subjects'

“Bean Boots’’ (oil on panel), by Jamie Wyeth, in his show “Unsettled,’’ at the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, July 4-Sept. 29.

The museum says:

“This exhibition traces a persistent vein of intriguing, often disconcerting imagery over the career of renowned artist Jamie Wyeth (born 1946). Frequently countered and even hidden by Wyeth’s fuller body of work—particularly his well-known coastal views and farmscapes—the darker and more troubling imagery is constant throughout his oeuvre. Whether he is introducing curious characters or surveying strange landscapes, Wyeth is at home with uneasy subjects and a master of the unsettled mood.’’

Those gorgeous book covers

Maine of the Sea and Pine, by Nathan Haskell Dole and Irwin Leslin Gordon; cover design likely Decorative Designers, Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1928, printed by C. H. Simonds Company, first edition.

The Farnsworth Art Museum, in Rockland, Maine, is showing through March 21 “Transforming the Ordinary: Women in American Book Cover Design’’. It shows book covers from the 1890s-1930s — considered the heyday of book-cover design. The Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements heavily influenced how artists, many of them women, created these book covers.

The sign includes a reference to the area’s granite-quarrying industry. Lime and shipbuilding were also important.

Launching a commercial sailing ship in 1900 in Rockland