Homegrown talent
“I like to translate something like the sound of insects in a hay field into shapes and colors.” Northwest Ohio prides itself in producing extra-ordinary, creative-minded citizens. The public…
Maine
Homer and Wyeth works bought
The Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine recently acquired new works by Winslow Homer, “An Open Window” and “River Cove” by Andrew Wyeth. “An Open Window” is one…
Works by local icon set to view
Gay Block, a longtime Santa Fe resident has had her photography is internationally recognized for its fearless exploration of personal identity issues: gender, class, religion, family relationships and sexual orientation.…
ME: Portland
WHERE: Portland Museum of Art. WHEN: On view through September 7, 2014. Richard Estes’ Realism BRIEF ABOUT: This exhibition is the most comprehensive survey since 1991 of the paintings…
28 make the cut for biennial
For the 2013 Portland Museum of Biennial: Piece Work exhibition, the following 28 out of 900 entries have been chosen to participate and will be on view October 3, 2013…
A haven on the Atlantic coast
I would like to introduce you to a B&B, one that continues to capture my heart and soul the minute I set foot into this historical home. It is also…
A day of blissfulness
During my annual July trip to Coastal Maine with my sister Janet, our week-long stay was at the Holbrook House (www.holbrookhouse.com) in Bar Harbor – an amazing B&B operated by…
Artist will show you the magic
Children are naturally drawn to the anticipation of the unknown. For the high school art students of Deering High School in Portland, Maine, the trick to the magic slowly…
ME: Portland
WHERE: MAINE: Portland Museum of Art WHEN: Thursday, June 23 through October 10, 2011 TITLE: John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury BRIEF ABOUT: John Marin (1870–1953) was regarded as one of…
Style and purpose is show’s theme
(PNAN-ME) – From portraits and figure studies to landscapes and architectural studies, “European Drawings” at the Portland Museum of Art is an exhibition that will showcase a spectrum of…
Maine’s terrain is show’s focal point
(PNAN-ME) – There is a Proverb, “From small beginnings come great things,” and in 1983, when the Friends of the Collection group made itself known, the Portland Museum of…
Bessire is thrilled with pride
(PNAN-ME) – These statements which can be attributed to Frank Tyger, who was a political cartoonist with the Trenton (NJ) Times, sums up Professionalism: “Progress results from persistence with…
Man-made works are touching views
(PNAN-ME) – Approached by the Limited Editions Club of New York in early 1941, Edward Weston was commissioned to make photographs to illustrate its deluxe edition of Walt Whitman’s…
Winter show surveys a ‘genius’ works
    (PNAN-ME) “Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008†exhibition goes on view Thursday, December 16 at the Portland Museum of Art, featuring paintings more than 30 major works ranging from the…
Heartstrings forever tied
“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good,…
Pine Tree State artists chosen for show
(PNAN-ME) – If you were Jim Kempner of Jim Kempner Fine Art in New York, or David Row, a painter based in New York and Maine, or even Joanna…