FREEPORT
Thos. Moser Handmade American Furniture has announced its summer art exhibit, “Dedicated to Art: Corcoran Gallery of Art & George Washington University Artists in Maine,” is on view in the company’s Freeport gallery.
A gallery talk and reception will be held Thursday, July 20, 2017 from 6-8 p.m.
As part of the Thos. Moser Freeport showroom’s ongoing effort to display Maine artwork, the exhibit features 83 paintings, prints, drawings and photographs from 24 artists who have a connection to Maine and attended or taught at either the Corcoran Gallery of Art or the George Washington University.
“For a century and a half, artists and museum educators from the Corcoran Gallery of Art and its School of Art and the George Washington University have been drawn to Maine for its natural beauty and long history as a destination for many renowned artists,” states a press release from Thos. Moser. “While unique in their style and interpretation, the artists featured in ‘Dedicated to Art’ are united by their connection to the schools as well as their relationship to Maine. Each artist featured in the summer exhibit has spent from a week to several decades living, painting or photographing the state. Several have also taught or studied at Maine’s seasonal art schools, such as the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Maine Media Workshops.”
Included in the exhibit is work by Hudson River School painter Christopher Pearse Cranch, who ministered in Maine in 1830s and 1840s and then summered in Maine periodically between 1875 and 1890.
Figurative expressionist painter Abraham Rattner will also be represented.
Rattner, whose work is featured in the Leepa-Rattner Museum outside Tampa, taught at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1948 and in 1950.
Other artists include Bernard Langlais, photographer Joyce Tenneson, Cicely Aikman and modernist James Daugherty.
Among the Corcoran and George Washington artists who currently live in Maine year-round and have work in the show are Margret Baldwin, David Estey, Nina Fuller, Roberta Goschke, Jenny Moore, Lavendier Myers, Chris Osgood and Amy Wilton.
The exhibit runs until Oct. 10 in the Thos. Moser Freeport showroom at 149 Main St., two blocks north of L.L. Bean. The showroom regularly exhibits the work of contemporary Maine artists.
Regular showroom hours are Monday Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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