Born in Baltimore in 1936, the great-granddaughter of board game creator Milton Bradley, Treworgy studied with noted painters Joseph Nicoletti, Thomas Cornell, and Wolf Kahn, among others. After discovering the work of the American Precisionists in 1991, she further sharpened her geometric approach. Her work has been shown at numerous galleries, reviewed by critics Philip Isaacson and Pat Davidson Reef, and juried into three Portland Museum of...
When, in his twenties, Philip Barter (b. 1939) discovered Marsden Hartley, he felt a calling: to further the vision of the great American modernist. This was an ambitious undertaking for a brash, self taught artist from Boothbay, Maine, but Barter's passion for Maine and its fiercely independent people gave his work a unique, unencumbered vision. Barter was prolific, and he spent a half-century painting the landscape of his home state, becomin...
The city of Portland and its surroundings, including the islands of Casco Bay, have inspired a wide range of art over the past 200 years. The "city by the sea, " as Longfellow famously called it, has been a visual talisman for a host of artists, from early masters like Harrison Bird Brown and John Bradley Hudson to a remarkable roster of contemporary painters. Subjects include many of the city's signature buildings, including the Custom House ...
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) devoted much of his life to a study of the ocean and the people whose lives were intertwined with it. This book is the first to focus on the full range of Homer's coastal subjects, with thirty-six reproductions of his most powerful works. Carl Little's essay discusses Homer's development as a painter, quotations from writers such as Homer scholar Philip C. Beam and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins add a further dimension to...
This is the first monograph published on Olivieri. The artist is an ardent environmentalist and a founding member of "TrapFree Oregon" a non-profit organisation dedicated to banning animal trapping.
William Irvine (b. 1931) is an American painter whose career spans six decades with the last four decades spent in Maine. Irvine's journey in art began in the town of Troon on the Scottish coast, where he was introduced to modern art through the collection of whiskey magnate Johnnie Walker. After graduating from the Glasgow School of Art and serving in the Scottish army, Irvine came of artistic age in London, where he was a part of a lively av...
This work gives a comprehensive look at the watercolours of Lawrence C. Goldsmith to show how his paintings evoke the aura of the different locales he frequents, especially his homes in Vermont and Monhegan.
From his earliest work with glass to the stunning aerial panoramas of Maine islands that have gained him far-reaching fame, Eric Hopkins has consistently explored boundaries-of medium, of space, of vision. Nurtured on North Haven Island, Hopkins attended the Rhode Island School of Design and the Montserrat College of Art and taught at the Haystack School of Crafts, an important mentor along the way was glass master Dale Chihuly. Taking to the ...
Dahlov Ipcar is best known for her vibrant collage-style paintings of jungle and farm animals. This clearly evident love of animals is due in part to the summers she spent with her family in Maine. In 1923 the Zorach family (her parents were the famous artists William and Marguerite Zorach) bought a farm at Robinhood Cove in Georgetown, Maine. It was during a Maine summer that Dahlov met her future husband Adolph Ipcar. They married in Septemb...
The Art of Maine in Winter presents more than eighty works by the finest American painters who capture the beauty of winter in Maine. Winslow Homer and Rockwell Kent, for example, stayed well into the winter, creating some of the most memorable images of Maine ever made. Snow on a meadow, ice blocks in a bay, frozen winter streams, sea smoke hovering over the ocean, and houses becoming gingerbread fantasies after a snowstorm - these are the gl...
