Promote N.E. artists’ work
“Veil” (offset lithograph and screenprint on paper), by Mikel Elam, in the group show “Sacred Space,’’ at the Fairfield (Conn.) University Art Museum, Sept. 21-Dec. 21.
The museum says:
“‘Sacred Space’ encourages a deep exploration of spiritual connection, inviting viewers to reflect on the ancestral wisdom and memory passed down through generations. The exhibition serves as a portal into the interconnected realms of spirituality, time, space, memory, and culture. The artists pay homage to their forebears, drawing upon cultural traditions, rituals, and sacred practices to honor and preserve, as well as question, the invaluable heritage that shapes our identities.’’
“Christina’s World’’, by Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), set on a farm in the Maine Coast town of Cushing. It’s in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, a few miles from New England.
The house depicted in the painting is known as the Olson House. It’s open to the public and is operated by the Farnsworth Art Museum, in Rockland, Maine.
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'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