WISCASSET — The Wiscasset Bay Gallery is hosting a reception on Saturday, July 6, from 5 to 7 p.m. with catering by Mae’s Café and Bakery of Bath,
The reception, which is free and open to the public, coincides with the opening of “Maine and America in the 20th Century” and will continue the gallery’s celebration of its 29th season.
Featured in the exhibition is a dramatic and richly painted oil painting by Abraham Bogdanove (1886-1946) —
”Afternoon Light, Squeaker Cove, Monhegan.”
Created in 1924, this bold and thickly painted work is awash in color and captures the drama of the crashing waves against the island’s rocky shoreline. Also on display is “Watching the Sea” by Gordon Grant (1875-1962), an iconic painting depicting two fishermen standing stoically at the ocean’s edge. With their backs to the viewer, the men watch while the ocean churns and the skies clear as a storm passes through.
The exhibition will also highlight several works on paper by renowned New England artist Sears Gallagher (1869-1955), including an early watercolor of a Monhegan Island home set atop a rocky bluff rendered in bright colors, as well as numerous delicate and detailed etchings of the Monhegan Island landscape and its inhabitants.
Other artists on display are Jay Hall Connaway, John Fulton Folinsbee, Edmund Ward, William Zorach, S.P.R. Triscott; Geer Morton, Marjorie Moskowitz, Joan Plummer, Keith Oehmig, Michael Graves, Tom McCobb, Don Stone, Guy Corriero, Tom Curry, Diana Johnson, J. Thomas R. Higgins, Paul Niemiec, Judith Magyar, John Gable, David Kasman and Carlton Plummer.
The exhibit runs through Friday, Aug. 9. For more information, call 882-7682 or visit the gallery’s website at www.wiscassetbaygallery.com.
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