Update from Day 1 MTOC State Tournament. Soccer fields at Progin Park Lancaster
Friday June 23, 2023
These tournament games are quick–each half is only 25 minutes–so they can be unforgiving. Not this one.
Cape Ann United’s first goal came swift and easy. Andrew Coelho was fouled by the keeper in the box resulting in a penalty kick. (From a distance it looked there was a yellow card.)
video clip goal 1
For the second goal. Charles stole on a transition & passed back to Brendan Anderton who lofted a sweet perfect assist to Dominic Paone for a great header to finish and pull ahead 2:0.
video clip goal 2
Scituate sniped from 40 yards out (it seemed long!) to stave a shut out, but it’s unlikely they’d have broken through CAU’s defense which maintained possession both halves. There were several shots on their goal.
Players didn’t stick around after the win. Afterall, they’re traveling back and forth to Gloucester since it’s Fiesta!
Two games tomorrow: Martha’s Vineyard then Stoneham. If those go well, Cape Ann United moves on to the semis and finals Sunday. This team is aiming for another State Championship.
Photos and video clips: Winning goals and snapshots of ECYS Champion Cape Ann United team vs. Scituate, June 23, 2023. Field 1. MTOC State Tournament. Boys 11 & 12PG
If you stop to think about how many projects Gloucester’s DPW is pulled into that they may not have spearheaded but must deliver and complete, all the while doing their essentials, it’s no wonder other Public Works look at what Gloucester’s DPW provide and think they do a model job.
For permanent infrastructural projects (see Stacy Boulevard series) it’s evident that form and beauty are taken into consideration as much as possible.
There’s a lot more green in the GHS Flood Control Project 2023 since the last photographs I posted a month ago. More plantings and landscaping coming will add even more appeal. New trees were laid this week.
“Construction went smoothly. With permanent infrastructure it’s tricky to balance form over function. Form is so, so important! To me. To the City. To the residents. I always try to strike a balance.”
Mike Hale, Dir. DPW, Gloucester, MA
Diagonals and lines are incorporated into the landscape elements and the zig zag, tapered wall itself which is wide enough–by design for its purpose–and that someone climbing, sitting, or walking on top is not hurt. Final rounds of hydro seeding should be finished by Friday. Crews are working on “small stuff and finishing touches”. Removal of equipment like the mini excavator are scheduled for Monday.
At this stage in the project, the grassy walk is wide and welcoming and the Annsiquam humming with activity. Two geese sauntered past unbothered. Maintaining public space and green additions are evident. The old preschool at the highschool’s playground equipment is enhanced and feels upgraded to a waterfront walk and park that’s as fun to visit as Cripple Cove. With 1000 less enrolled at GPS there’s ample room at GHS for relocating the preschool and school administration from Blackburn back into the highschool. There might even be room for the Pond Road or other city offices. They can make use of an enhanced amenity. When this community space opens there’s a full circle longer walk option around the school: from Dun Fudgin/Emerson, back of school, bit of Centennial to the riverwalk.
The public can resume access to the riverwalk along the ‘squam between the Cut and Dun fudgin’ next week. There are three ways to walk on: 1)to the right of the bridge tender from Stacy Boulevard, 2)from the high school (by the softball field), and 3)Dun Fudgin’. The bridge tender is city property; they lease it from the city. If you check out the progress before Tuesday, you can see the temporary fences and locked gates which will be removed.
photo caption: Temporary fencing. Gates ajar Tuesday. This photograph shows the intentional natural planting for an earlier GHS flood mitigation project. Could sustainable planting partial strip like this continue along the back of the new wall (where the public is not meant to walk)? see next photo
Aerial View from Edward Hopper
image: Edward Hopper House on ‘Squam River, 1926. The Hopper drawing was gifted to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1948. I thought about Hopper’s use of abbreviated ‘Squam and this vista for this post.
FAST STATS for the GHS Flood Control 2023
**Managed and partially funded by City of Gloucester, DPW**
Managed: City of Gloucester DPW
Engineers: GZA GEO Environmental, Amesbury
Contractor: Charter Contracting Boston
Status: nearly across the finish line. Progress: as of June 21, 2023 completion ETA is Monday June 26, 2023. Gates open Tues. Project start (historic): pre 1900 Modern project start: on the ground January 2023
Funding Awarded by:
from State: TBD Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs; FEMA; Mass Emergency Management Agency
from City: TBD partially funded plus in kind by DPW
Funding in place as of: TBD
Gloucester grants over the years in this vicinity include: emergency work on Blynman collapse; earlier GHS storm water project; Newell Stadium New Balance Field special surface;
Bid Open and contract amount:3.244M Contract completion: 2023 Locations: Along ‘Squam length between cut bridge and dun fudgin Priority: 1,439 linear feet of flood wall necessity, for safety and continued investment along an area the city has developed since the landfill late 1800s, and longer related to the Cut. Infrastructure project with quality of life benefits for residents and visitors. Rather than traditional loud pneumatic pile driving, special drive sheets were fabricated to offset the noise (essentially vibratory) Temporary work site chain link fence: Required. The chain link fence is installed by the contractor to protect the work zone and define it better. Will be removed as soon as possible.
HIGH RES PLANS
High Res plans here
Wastewater Treatment Facility
Directly across the river, construction for another wall encircling the city’s wastewater treatment facility is nearly finished. That project includes deployable gates for overflow.
The city’s investments in infrastructure is not new nor its evergreen commitment to improvements.
Fiscal year 2023 the City’s proposed budget is 133.9M. The DPW budget is about 32.1M million. For comparison, the school budget is about 50M*, 60% more. If we want more services or faster, money is another piece of the form vs. function balancing act.
*50M base number excludes: facilities rental for preschool/admin at Blackburn, etc.; school choice out tuition costs; Essex Tech expenditure; new school project; and special budget supplemental request/loan orders (e.g. school portion of 2.15M IT)
MORE Greenhead trap boxes
DPW did not install the greenhead boxes in Gloucester. In the photos above you can see greenhead boxes added to the salt marsh here as well as the new ones behind Good Harbor Beach. The Commonwealth’s Northeast MA Mosquito Control installed 58 traps. Last year it was 20. There’s a history of mosquito AND greenhead control combined action plans by the state which I wrote about here when I saw the new Good Harbor ones. I will add to that list an article by Ethan Forman who wrote about Essex and Wingaersheek and the city considering reenrolling. See Gloucester Daily Times here. That article mentions board of health asking city council for greenlight for the greenheads (each box about $90 a piece and a 3 year contract).
I will try to find a map or list of site locations. In the recent past I remember them in the marsh behind Lobsta Land. Apparently there were a fleet of them in the 1980s. Do you remember seeing them in more places at that time or were you involved back then? I’d love to learn about any tallies and sites and compare with 2023.
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Player-Coach Aidan. Post game hype. Cape Ann United ECYSA champions 2023
Congratulations boys! Current and former Gloucester High School (GHS) Fishermen Athletic players have been here and played together before, some since early Fishermen Youth Soccer days.
Results of the Essex County Youth Soccer weekend regional playoffs at Pingree 2023 for Cape Ann United boys soccer. Coach Pat Caron and Jim Sperry.
Sunday June 18, 2023
Cape Ann United beat North Andover 2:0, Max Sperry in goal. Cape Ann United scores by Gino Tripoli, the first a tap in and the second a PK, after which he turned to the stands asking, “Dad, like that? Happy Father’s Day!” Sun broke after the game.
Saturday June 17, 2023
An overcast and at times rainy game. Cape Ann United defeated Masco 4:2. Max Sperry in goal. Andrew Coelho scored twice. Geremy Palacios and Domenic Paone (with an assist from Gino) scored one a piece.
Save the date MTOC Tournament
update from the coaches:
“We are on to Lancaster for the MTOC Tournament!
The link to our schedule is here. We are Team #8101
The schedule at this point in time* is:Friday6/23, 2:20pm; Saturday 6/24, 1:20pm and 2:40pm; Sunday 6/25 (if we get that far) 9:00am (Semi Final) and 10:40am (Final):
Coach Jim and Pat
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molting, preening, feeding, rafting and resting in coves off Gloucester and Rockport.
Common eiders cluster in the coves during breeding season. They can’t fly when they’re molting and raft off loudly and orderly when disturbed by small boats, people on shore, and gulls. When adults scaled the rocks, the elements were handy. Waves tossed the ducklings atop a veritable shag carpet of seaweed which looks especially thick this season.
photos: Common Eider breeding season 2023 in Gloucester and Rockport coves off Long Beach. Distant snapshots through binoculars.
Breeding season for barn swallows and tree swallows, too–incubating now. Tree swallow photo bomb in one of the video snippets below. (Adult swallows take breaks from incubating to eat. Common eider females incubate solo and do not eat until after hatching.)
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During the first week in June 2023, saw crews* installing the wooden boxes that trap the greenhead horseflies in the salt marsh at the back of Good Harbor Beach (on both sides of Thatcher Road). The boxes are new here though not to Gloucester or the region.
See below for a small selection of greenhead flies mentions that made the news–1880s on, some humorous, some not.
I have not experienced too many greenheads this way, but I don’t live beside the marsh. (They’re worse to me at Wingaersheek, Cranes, and Essex rather then Good Harbor and Long Beach.)
They’re a part of the ecosystem. Tree swallows and eastern Kingbirds eat them.
*edit: a little mystery as to who and how. Saw them installing the beach side on June 3, 2023.
Greenhead flies in the news:
1889 Delaware defends itself. “That Delaware the land of mosquitoes and greenhead flies is a good state “to emigrate from,” will no doubt be the decision of the fire insurance companies doing business there after January 1st…The valued policy law and mosquitoes we confess and deplore; but we kick on the greenhead flies and log cabins with mud chimneys. There are counties in Pennsylvania which beat the whole State of Delaware out of sight in both…greenhead flies are scarce here…”
1907 Green Flies Bother Men and Horses at Ipswich.
“…Thus far the cavalrymen have made no concerted complaint over the invasion of greenhead flies. These pests have stingers like hot needles and cause great annoyance to men and horses.”
1910 from the wires
“You’ll see them in Guayaquil. There the mosquitoes and greenhead flies are so thick that horses and donkeys, unless their legs are cased in cloth, become unmanageable with the pain, Guayaquill is in Ecuador. It is directly under the equator. The heat there is insufferable. Up and down its narrow streets in bluish clouds of buzzing insects walk horses and donkeys in sunbonnets and pantaloons.”
carried in US papers Nov. 1910
1914 excerpt from humorous column by James Montgomery Flagg
“No matter where you happen to be, whether it’s in South Berwick, in New York, or in jail, there comes the time of year when you want to go somewhere else…If you don’t happen to own a shack out in the country, you write to various resorts for terms. Just as you have settled on a seemingly perfect spot, you mention where you are going to a friend. The friend says: “East Bunquit! For the love of Ozone, don’t go there! I tried to spend a summer there once; we were eaten alive by the mosquitoes and greenhead flies! And the cemetery is just outside the dining room window…”
James Montgomery Flagg in Words and Pictures: I Should Say So!! Going Away From Here is not Such a Cinch, 1914
1935
“MANY WISH SOMETHING could be done about the elimination of horseflies, or greenhead flies. Swarms of these pests are molesting bathers at seashore resorts during the past two weeks. Conditions have been so bad on the hot muggy days that many persons who enjoy the seashore have purposely remained away. The greenheads appear at a certain time every summer and while they last they are a nuisance. It is said that spraying operations on the salt marshes drive the greenhead flies out.”
Gloucester Daily Times August 1935 notice
1946 Boston Globe
“…The greenheads, you may be interested to know, are a little more stream-lined than the common horsefly although they belong to the same genre…they don’t fly ordinarily at night. They turn the night over to mosquitos. Maybe it’s a contract…The state has employed Norman H. Bailey, instructor in biology at (BU) to do special research work on the greenhead fly this Summer. He has a collection of these winged A-bombs in little wire cages and right now is hunting egg clusters which are sometimes found–and they are hard to find–attached to blades of marsh grass. One of the highlights ” of his experience to date is the time he sat in his car with the windows down and counted 475 greenhead visitors in 15 minutes. He doesn’t say how many bit him…”
K. S. Bartlett. Boston Globe. “State opens Fight Against Ferocious Essex County Greenheads: Hard-Biting Flies, No Respecters of Persons, Pursued Author Marquand into Sea”
1948 Greenhead Fly Bill passed in the State Senate. $3000 for a study about the “fly nuisance in the tidal areas of Newburyport, Gloucester, Salisbury, Newbury, Rowley, Ipswich and Essex.” Gloucester Daily Times, April 20th
1950s The North Shore Greenhead Fly Program worked with US Fish and Wildlife. Regionally, aimed to Greenhead fly control in any anti mosquito campaigns. Mid 1950s city’s allocation for control was $1000 annually.
1951 Regional officials press state to undertake greenhead fly eradication
1953 Boston Globe: North shore declares War on Greenhead Fly! “…the greenhead is the one that removes both flesh and blood in its sudden attack…”
1956 Cape Ann Tree Wardens attended the 2nd Annual Northeastern Mosquito Control Conference at UMASS in Amherst reflecting greater “awakening of public interest in control measures”. Dr. Bertram Gerry, a member of the Greenhead Reclamation Board, was a featured speaker.
1958 Gloucester Daily Times notice about upcoming 2 marsh sprayings in July for greenhead fly control
1961Gloucester Daily Times front page coverage
“Gloucester is taking part in three separate programs to control the insects. One is the state program which begins in April or May. This is designed to destroy the larvae of both mosquitoes and greenheads. Gloucester pays its share of the cost for this. The city also uses its own equipment to spray all public areas such as parks and playground. The third program in the budget is for insect control in marshlands an extensive job along local inlets and waterways. Ditches are cleared of stagnant water, the flow of water directed and inhibiting chemicals applied. At one time the city tried to spray private lots but, like most communities, abandoned the mushrooming program…”
Jackie Darcy. Our Mosquitoes are Well Behaved. Gloucester Daily Times. Front page June 13, 1961. [Accessed from Sawyer Free Library GDT archives]
1960s DDT pesticide wreaked havoc on clam flats sparking a battle between industries (shellfishermen vs tourism). The press describes Cape Cod flies as similar but different and eradicated there. I have no idea how true that was but the ink for beastly bites was thick with Cape Ann stories.
1966 “greenhead flies having their annual burst of glory” and arrive first in mid-July
Late 1960s Boxes introduced — on Cape Cod. The insects fly under the belly of the boxes as they would a deer or cow. Once inside they’re drawn in and up by the light and can’t exit.
1973 Rowley scientists build a better Greenhead Fly Trap
1975 M. R. Montgomery worth a read! “Good things about the greenhead flies” Boston Globe
“…It is turnover that counts, not the capacity of the house. The greenhead fly is to parking space marketing as fast-food is to hamburger marketing…get ’em in, get their money, and get ready for the next crowd…”
1985 Boston Globe Cape Cod survivor story by Tony Chamberlain –
“On average, greenheads hurt a bit more than yellow jackets, though it is a different sort of hurt. The hornet’s hurt seems powered by a kind of electric jolt, while the bite of a greenhead–literally a bite–fairly rings with a delirious quality to it. If you have the self control not to jump when you feel it, you can easily slam the life out of the greenhead where he sits chewing on your vital substance. His very pleasure makes him an easy target, and there’s a lesson in that.”
Chamberlain goes on to recall one of his most vivid greenhead experiences on a Cape Cod fishing trip out of Chatham.
Photos; on the ground show work in progress with views across and from Stacy Boulevard, the Cut (Blynman), Centennial, Gloucester High School (parking lot, Newell Stadium). Scroll down for before photos.
[*note on photos: click “i” to enlarge to view full size.]
See more about construction projects at this site and history of sanitation here.
cOMPARE 2020 vs 2023.
BEFORE- LANDFILL along Annisquam River.
A century+ of intervention.
photos: Dump and landfill atop the saltmarsh | misc. views 2018-2021 | signage and planting related to earlier flood mitigation project at/with the high school
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Color spread looks great! Gloucester’s history of summer seasons, the 400+ Anniversary festivities, the 4th of July Fireworks, and Cape Ann Museum’s Edward Hopper exhibition & walking tours are mentioned.
“When I was growing up in Gloucester, Mass., we were steeped in…”
McGrath, Ellie. “Summer at the Seaport.” Wall Street Journal. Print edition May 27-28, 2023. On line read here
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A record number of lighthouses are being offered to the public during 2023 “Lighthouse Season”
BOSTON. May 26, 2023 – Each May, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), offers lighthouses to the public and other entities as part of its mission to deliver value and savings in federal real estate for taxpayers. This year, GSA is offering a record number of lighthouses, including at least six to nonprofits and government entities and at least four to the public through auctions.
A few lighthouses will be auctioned straight off. For the others, a right of first refusal process enables transfer of the property–buildings and grounds–to “federal agencies, state and local governments, nonprofits, educational agencies, and community development organizations” that are in a position to maintain them, and may already be fulfilling that mission. Thacher Island Assoc. does a beautiful job for Twin Lights and Straitsmouth Islands.
Stage Fort Park after the rain on this atmospheric morning was formal and dreamy. Skies above felt like passages in paintings by Odilon Redon and Florine Stettheimer. May 21, 2023.
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Sotheby’s Auction House | The New York Sales. Modern Day Auction, May 17, 2023. New York. See auction results and selection of highlights below. The Morning Session 1 lasted from 10:00 AM-12:30 PM and covered catalogued lots 101 – 323*. Session 2 resumed at 2:30 PM to auction lots 401-575*.
Sotheby’s averaged about 40 lots auctioned per hour today.
hopper Results
From the Whitney deaccession | Three of the four Whitney Hopper works sold in Session 2. The 4th Edward Hopper—linked indirectly to the Whitney bequest—a sailboat watercolor from 1899 (Lot 531) was near the end.
Edward Hopper from the Whitney Museum (Josephine Nivinson Hopper bequest)
Lot 430 Gloucester Group of Houses 1923 est 500,000 – 700,000. SOLD HAMMER PRICE $550,000. I wrote more about this work here
Lot 434 Red Barn in Autumn Landscape, 1927. SOLD HAMMER PRICE $500,000
Lot 432 The Battery, Charleston, SC 1929 est 500-700,000. SOLD HAMMER PRICE $450,000
Lot 531 Edward Hopper Sailboat study from 1899 from the Sanborn batch (w/ art and papers in the Nyack family home following Hoppers’ deaths) presale est. $100,000. SOLD HAMMER PRICE 80,000
The Prendergast (Lot 250) from the Whitney collection sold under its presale estimate (400,000-600,000), hammer price was $300,000. The John Marin (Lot 429) from the Whitney Deaccession Seven sold for $140,000.
Selections from the day sale
Surpassed presale estimateS- Highlights
Le Pho. Mere et fils. Two works by Le Pho soared past estimate.ZarragaSchofieldAveryRodinDubuffetLuceDelaunayAbercrombie
notes on images: The Feiningers were friends with the Hoppers. Ditto Hartley. The Hartley Pink Houses, ca. 1940, like a Hopper motif, was inspired by Stonington, ME. Henri taught Ed Hopper and Jo Nivison. The Benton Train Station that’s a bit more of a Hopper composition is dated 1929.
Failed to find a buyer (“passed”)
selection of works that failed to find a buyer at this time
*Various lots are withdrawn and or fail to sell at auction. As a result, the final lot tally generally doesn’t match the total number of lots promoted ahead of the live sale.
Note: Hammer price indicates last bid before the gavel drops. Fees are added to the hammer price.
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Masterworks were auctioned by Sotheby’s in two evening sales in New York on May 16, 2023. The priciest presale estimates and expectations were set on works by Edward Hopper, Rene Magritte*, Gustav Klimt, Vincent van Gogh, Peter Paul Rubens and Giacometti. Sotheby’s catalogued 69 lots between the two sales. As the first sale opened no lots were pulled and three women featured: Joan Mitchell (first to announce “Reserve” on the sale, sold for 6.8 million hammer price), Georgia O’Keefe, and Berthe Morisot.
Edward Hopper. Cobb’s Barns, South Truro (1930-33) was slated in the later sale, one of seven works the Whitney Museum of American Art will sell at Sotheby’s this week and the only one tonight (May 16).
Oliver Barker, Chairman Sotheby’s Europe, welcomed and opened the sale at 6:10pm. Lots from Mo Ostin’s estate, a music industry legend and “visionary collector”, were offered first. Both Magrittes from the Ostin sale sold on the lower end of their presale estimate window despite dragging out bids for the first, Lot 3.
images above: selections from the Sotheby’s Mo Ostin Collection 6pm Evening sale 5/16/2023. Stunning trio he had acquired! [Magritte. L’Empire des lumières, 1951, (pre sale est. 35-55 million | hammer price, before fees 36,500,000 ); Magritte. Le Domaine d’Arnheim, 1949 (presale est. 15 mil-25 mil. First time at auction. hammer price 16.2 mil); Mark Tansey. Study for Action painting. 1985. (presale est. 1.5-2 mil | hammer price 2.1)]
images below: selections from the Sotheby’s 7pm Evening Sale 5/16/2023
[Klimt. sold hammer price 46 million; Hammershoi. sold hammer price 7,650,000; Matisse hammer price 3.2; Magritte. passed; O’Keefe passed; Bonnard 3,488,000 with fees; van Gogh sold with fees 23,314,500; Rubens hammer price 22.5 million ; and Hopper sold hammer price 6 million. ]
Oliver Barker opened part 2 of the major evening auction at 7:25 pm.
The intermission pre-hype video before the auction that focused on the Whitney Museum Hoppers, one oil and 3 watercolors from Jo Nivison Hopper’s bequest, where they remained for more than 50 years and are now to be deaccessioned, was narrated by Lisa Dennison, Chairperson Sotheby’s Americas. “This is an extraordinary opportunity to acquire works of this great American artists with such distinguished provenance.” Gloucester was mentioned and also described “Cape Ann”. Dennison built her career as a museum Curator and Director prior to Sotheby’s. (Inside ball art aside: Adam Weinberg, the Dir. of the Whitney, announced he’s stepping down after some 20 years. Dennison had vied for that position and was courted by several national museums. She helmed the Guggenheim prior to Sotheby’s. Hopper’s New York and the Hopper deaccession were among Weinberg’s last involvements at the Whitney.) The sale is controversial for several reasons despite the good intentions of proceeds promised for new acquisitions at the Whitney. Although this deaccession pales in comparison to the Berkshire Museum’s gutting–especially Norman Rockwell’s Shuffleton’s Barbershop–it’s still charged. Additionally, the accurate description of the full Hopper bequest falls short at the Whitney on several issues. I’ll write more about that in another post.
Magritte Souvenir de voyage was withdrawn from the sale. The Klimt “celebrating the idyllic shores of Austria” which sold for 46 million was described as “an exquisite painting. Not going to be another one like this coming up for a while.” The two lots following the Klimt, the Georgia O’Keefe and Renoir, failed to sell, or “passed”; the Renoir was removed from the Musee d’Orsay and would have been restitution for the Ambroise Vollard heirs. The Vilhelm Hammershoi interior, Lot 106, rustled up the most active bidding and prompted the only big clap from the audience until Isamu Noguchi Lot 128 The Family reached a 10.4 million hammer price. The Giacometti Lot 129 sold for 24.5 million slightly beneath the presale estimate (25-35 million). “For the very first time ever included in a modern auction. From 1620. In all its glory…” the drumroll opening bid for the Peter Paul Rubens started at 16 million and climbed to 22.5 million (presale estimate 20-30 million), a smattering of applause from the audience. Not an exuberant night for the Magrittes on the block this night or the sale overall. Several lots were announced “pulled” during the later sale.
The Whitney is hoping to sell 3 more works by Hopper along with a Prendergast and a Marin via Sotheby’s sales this week. There is a 4th Hopper drawing to be auctioned from 1899 that isn’t mentioned with the news about the four to be deaccessioned by the Whitney though it should be. Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Auction continues Thursday.
Images below: Sotheby’s set design and Oliver Barker’s auctioneer style is quite different than Christies, though both use deep leans to emphasize the bidding from opposite sides of the room or seats on the floor. Most of the action was by phone tonight. Barker calls the phone pens that look like a telethon the “telephone aisles” and “there it is” is a favorite catch phrase. Christies did without the “turnstile” and art handlers showcasing the lot front and center as the sale progresses and which I thought I’d miss from the virtual feed. Maybe not: the vibe here was a bit Price is Right meets the spinning dressing table from the 1960s Batgirl tv show. It does help with scale.
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I love the sunny days. Spring cleaning. White sheets drying on the line…whoops! Indoors, any flat surfaces coated yellow are as slippery underfoot–on tile and wood floors–as spilled baby powder or flour. The next rain may bring puddles outlined in yellow. In the meantime, what’s your dusting hack for pollen?
Hang in there to all who have allergies!
May 2023, Gloucester, MA.
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Jane Deering Gallery is pleased to present Juni Van Dyke | These Beautiful Hands running May 19 – June 4, 2023 with an Opening Reception with the artist on Saturday, May 20th from 3-6pm. Van Dyke speaks about These Beautiful Hands
“During Gloucester’s 400th anniversary, I wanted to honor many of the city’s elders with a project involving their hands — hands which have been worn smooth as gems from years of loving, caring, toiling, living. Hands wrinkled and calloused, arthritic, spotted, veined. Beautiful hands of time. My tribute unfolds in four parts—Sculpture, Drawing, Painting and Video.”
Juni Van Dyke
Jane Deering gallery is located at 19 Pleasant Street, Gloucester MA. Gallery hours: Friday & Saturday 1-5pm; Sunday 1-4pm and by appointment at 978-526-7248 or junivandyke@yahoo.com.
Read more about the solo show and from the Artist Statement:
In 2014, Allen acquired the drawing from the Paul Mellon Estate sale at Sotheby’s.
Prior to the Hopper lot, “one of the 5 greatest Gas Station” Ed. Ruscha’s Burning Gas Station sold for 19 million (which was below the presale estimate 20 -30 mil; bidding started at 17 million). Among the works that soared past their presale estimates were a Matisse drawing, an Agnes Pelton from 1926, Degas’s Danseus a la barre from the Danforth estate, Renoir’s Square de la Trinité, and a “wonderful” Goya drawing.
O’Keefe’s Black Iris 5–also from the Paul Allen collection–surged past its presale estimate (5-7 million to 18 million); and there was spirited bidding for more than one Hockney. So far the audience broke into applause for two: a Toulouse Lautrec circus elephant drawing and “one of the masterpieces of the week”, a large Rosseau, reached an auction record. “I don’t think you’ll see another,” quipped the auctioneer holding the gavel at 37.5 million. Paul Guston Pull, Picasso Femme Assise, and a Cezanne figure group passed.
Good Morning Gloucester 