Drawing the line in Duxbury
“Fortified’’ (charcoal and pastel), by Lesley Cohen, in the group show “Draw the Line,’’ at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass., Sept. 15-Jan 12.
In Duxbury, view of Bluefish River inlet, with “King Caesar House’’ at left. The Federal-style mansion was built in 1809 for Ezra Weston, a well known shipbuilder and merchant nicknamed King Caesar for his influence and prosperity.
— Photo by Ruth W. Demby
This is America: Make it an AK-47
“Carrot and Stick’’ (wood, paint), by Steve Novick, in his show “Approximation,’’ at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass., Aug. 18-Nov. 10.
Look, don't board
“The Red Canoe’’ (collagraph/linocut monoprint), by Leslie Kramer, in the show “Printmakers of Cape Cod: Floating Worlds,’’ at The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass., through Aug. 11.
Well then get plenty of sleep!
“Insomnia’’ (print), by Mei Fung Elizabeth Chan, in the Duxbury (Mass.) Art Association’s Winter Juried Show, through April 13 at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury.
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Cape boat on inland water
“Beetlecat on Weirs Beach’’ (in Laconia, N.H., on Lake Winnipesaukee} (watercolor), by Jon Fish, at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass. These centerboard boats are most associated with Cape Cod.
Weaponizing art
"Sticks and Stones B9'' (monoprint), by Joan Hausrath, in "The Fifth National Monoprint Juried Exhibition,'' at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass., through Sept. 2.
Joan Hausrath, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Sticks and Stones B9, 2016, Monoprint
A lovely killer
"Falco" (oil on canvas), by Karie O'Donnell, at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass. This image is based on a Red-tailed Hawk at the New England Wildlife Center, Weymouth, Mass.
Images of reinvention in delightful Duxbury
"Henry'' (transparent watercolor), by Irena Roman, in her show "Second Wind: Journeys of Re-Invention,'' at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass., through May 13.
Duxbury is a very affluent South Shore-of-Boston town with beautiful sandy beaches, oyster beds, cranberry bogs, piney woods and kettle ponds, along lots of 18th and 19th Century houses. Geologically, it's Cape Cod- like.
Inlet scene in Duxbury.
Duxbury has long been a summer place for the well-off, mostly from the Boston and Providence areas, but some from Greater New York, too, although the ocean water there is much colder than in Buzzards and Narragansett bays, to the south.
The John Alden House, built in 1653, when Duxbury was becoming a sort of suburb of still-small Plymouth.
Tumultuous coast
"Sunken Ledges'' (oil on canvas, c. 1910), by Charles H. Woodbury, at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass.
Look, don't hug
"Naiad'' (pencils), by Jennifer Maestre, in the show "Wood as Muse,'' at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass., through Sept. 3.
The wonders of found wood
Wood assemblage by Mike Wright in the current show "Wood as Muse,'' at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass. Wright hunts for old painted wood on Provincetown's beaches and streets.
Now start drafting
"Naiad'' (pencils), buy Jennifer Maestre, in the show "Wood as Muse,'' at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass., May 7-Sept. 3.
Affluence under sail
Painting by Laura Tryon Jennings at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass.
We're costing out the materials
"Study for Houses and Trees'' (oil on linen), by Paul Bloodgood, in his show through Nov. 6 at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass.
Welcoming and eerie
"Point Judith Blood Moon'' (photo), by Jurgen Lobert, in the show "Night Becomes Us: Photographs by the Greater Boston Night Photographers,'' at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass., Sept. 18-Jan. 15.
The way it sometimes looks
"Plymouth, Massachusetts, Potion 2014'' (photo), by DIANA BARKER PRICE, in her show "Untamed Forest,'' at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury.
The gallery says that she "creates images that occur between the transitions of day and night, calm and storm, reality and fantasy, fleeting moments of magical light that become forever real once they are photographed.''
The picture above evokes how Plymouth looked to me in the very early morning of a certain summer day in 1968.
-- Robert Whitcomb
Meanwhile, from 1934:
Times have changed And we've often rewound the clock Since the Puritans got a shock When they landed on Plymouth Rock. If today Any shock they should try to stem 'Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock would land on them.
-- From the opening of the song "Anything Goes,'' by Cole Porter
The way we live now
"In Passing'' (woodcut on rice paper), by ELLEN NATHAN SINGER, in the show "Look Again: The ACM Collection Inspires the Boston Printmakers,'' at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass., May 17-Sept. 6.
The official New England scene
"Guiding Us Home'' (acrylic on canvas), by GIG PARIS, in upcoming show at the Alden Gallery at the Art Complex Museum, in Duxbury, Mass.
Trying to unfurnish old age
Painting and collage by SALLY MELLO, at the Art Complex Museum, in Duxbury, Mass. It's her grandmother's chair.
We too have some old furniture, s0me of which we'd like t0 unload on our adult children, but they have shown little interest in it. Will much of it end up in the dump, or as firewood? Such are the sorts of questions associated with old age.