Here’s a look at our Fourth of July week, celebrating the country’s 250th around Gloucester.
The right hand Mallard is also a male, just further along in his summer molt. Niles Pond.An ‘American Lady’ found our butterfly bushes.Gloucester’s 4th of July fireworks, on the 3rd.Celebrating the 4th with a sail on Troll. Eastern Point Yacht Club.London-registered Blue Guitar was back for a summer visit. [Eric Clapton never owned her.]Lunch on the 4th with our last ‘Fisherman’s Pils,’ after the Cape Ann Brewing Company closed in 2021.Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular on TV – USS Constitution sailing above the Charles River Basin (drones).Untitled early Mark Rothko watercolor (1934), in the Cape Ann Museum’s exhibit highlighting the years Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko painted together in Gloucester.The styles of all three grew more abstract later in life. Here is the comparison for Mark Rothko.The non-rotating Fresnel lens that was installed in the south lighthouse tower on Thacher Island in 1861.The museum’s 20-month renovation created fresh spaces for telling about Gloucester’s heritage.A newly exhibited early watercolor by Fitz Henry Lane, ‘Burning of the Packet Ship Boston,’ 1830.My favorites are still in the Fitz Henry Lane Room; for example ‘Three Master in Rough Seas,’ early 1850s.
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