My View of Life on the Dock
Reposting as the flyer did not show as a picture.
Colleen HoganLopez shares news from Friends of the Sawyer Free Library:
Membership drive printable form here and below
The installation for the Friends 2019 Annual Art Auction will be happening this week. Art fans can preview and leave silent bids throughout September. Save the date for the evening auction, October 3, 2019. from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM. Contact Gailsarofeen@gmail.com with questions.
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East Gloucester Building Committee Public Hearing agenda: Public Hearing East Gloucester Building committee Agenda 9_9_19
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Ward 1 public meeting September 30th at Gloucester Stage 630pm
Colleen Hogan Lopez shares news from Friends of the Sawyer Free Library:
Membership drive printable form here and below
The installation for the Friends 2019 Annual Art Auction will be happening this week. Art fans can preview and leave silent bids throughout September. Save the date for the evening auction, October 3, 2019. from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM. Contact Gailsarofeen@gmail.com with questions.
What a day to launch! Audience by land and sea. Thanks so much to GMG reader, Michele, for sharing her view of 92.5FM Riverfest 2019 Seaside Music Festival at Stage Fort park in Gloucester, Mass. Free concert from 92.5 The River
Congratulations to Jill Cahill and team, and all those involved!
“GLOUCESTER (CBS) – It Happens Here in Gloucester – part of Cape Ann, an urban town center surrounded by beaches, boats and beautiful marshland. One of the town’s more famous residents was Clarence Birdseye. He is the man who put frozen foods on the dinner table…” Read transcript and see video here (if it’s not loading below)
New heights – Click and Connect coming soon!
Stop & Shop 6 Thatcher Road, Gloucester, MA 01930 is adding a parcel pick up area just inside the threshold. Upon entering the store, pick up customers will turn left. Stop & Shop staff said they’re targeting September 9th for the soft launch of this new option to buy on line and then pick up and the week following as the official opening.
Coming full circle? This addition brought forth some Massachusetts memories. Does anybody else remember the grocery chain with the curbside conveyor belt? Staff packed the groceries into bags and boxes, and customers brought their car around (station wagon for us)
Impressive and functional!
Balmy summer eve was all monochromatic big sky a mere thirty minutes earlier.
On August 15, 2019, Sawyer Free Library hosted a beautiful celebration for Once Upon a Contest. A second reception for the artists and writers will be held on September 19th with an opening talk by Claire Wyzenbeek, the invited artist for this leg of the show. Also, look for upcoming special morning programs featuring Kim Smith, Mary Rhinelander and Claire Wyzenbeek.
Special thanks for photos: credit mostly Linda Bosselman and Justine Vitale, SFL
Save the date from the Cape Ann museum
Winslow Homer: Picturing the Tropics
Illustrated talk and extended hours at the Cape Ann Museum
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (August 15, 2019) – The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present a special evening of programming on Thursday, August 29, 2019 from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. This is the first in a series of four nights, throughout summer and fall, when the Museum will be open extended hours. In addition to galleries staying open for viewing, there will be illustrated talks, musical performances, artmaking opportunities, cash bar and more! Extended hours are free for CAM members or with Museum admission. There will be additional costs for special lectures or musical performances.
On Thursday, August 29 join Bowdoin College professor Dana Byrd for Winslow Homer: Picturing the Tropics at 7:00 p.m. The artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is beloved for his moody representations of crashing surf against the rocky Maine coastline. The artist, however, was no recluse. He enjoyed traveling for pleasure and new painting subjects. During the last decades of his life, with box camera and painting kit in hand, he visited a number of tourist locales, among them, the Bahamas, Cuba and Florida. This talk will explore Homer’s varied depictions of the tropics, to revisit this important, yet little addressed aspect of his oeuvre. This lecture is $10 for CAM members; $20 nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Reservations are required and can be made at camuseum.eventbrite.com or by calling 978-283-0455 x10.
Highlights of the evening also include watercolor painting; a cash bar featuring Cuba Libres & rum punch; and a chance to see Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painter’s Journey, 1869 – 1880.
Dana E. Byrd is a scholar of American art and material culture at Bowdoin College. She received her PhD from Yale University in 2012. Her research engages with questions of place and the role of objects in everyday life. Her book manuscript, “Reconstructions: The Material Culture of the Plantation, 1861-1877,” examines the experience of the plantation during the Civil War through the end of Reconstruction.
This program is offered in conjunction with the special exhibition, Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painter’s Journey, 1869-1880, which is the first close examination of the formation of Winslow Homer as a marine painter. The exhibition will be on view until December 1, 2019. The Cape Ann Museum will be its sole venue.
Tondo photo image credit: Winslow Homer. St. Johns’ River, Florida ca. 1895 pinhole (from an Eastman Kodak #1 camera) photograph Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. Photo portrait courtesy of Dana Byrd. Homer watercolors various collections: Art Inst. Chicago, Harvard FOGG (completed with sections from Yale), National Gallery, Cummer
About the Cape Ann Museum Continue reading “NEW Nights at Cape Ann Museum: First extended hours Aug 29 features Bowdoin College Professor Dana Byrd talk 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙧: 𝙋𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙨”
Winslow Homer Harbor Cruise
A sunset adventure aboard the Schooner “Thomas E. Lannon”
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (August 15, 2019) – The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present an evening sunset harbor cruise on Sunday, August 25 at 6:00 p.m. In celebration of the special exhibition Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painter’s Journey, 1869 – 1880, the Museum has partnered with the Schooner “Thomas E. Lannon” to illuminate Winslow Homer’s time in Gloucester. This program which includes a two-hour sail, light refreshments (wine, beer & snacks), a chance to watercolor paint and tales of Homer’s time in Gloucester is $60 for CAM members; $75 nonmembers. Advanced registration required. For more information visit capeannmuseum.org or call 978-283-0455 x10.
The exhibition, Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painter’s Journey, 1869-1880, is the first close examination of the formation of Winslow Homer as a marine painter. The exhibition will be on view until December 1, 2019. The Cape Ann Museum will be it sole venue.
In 1869, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) exhibited his first picture of the sea. He was an ambitious New York illustrator—not yet recognized as an artist—and freshly back from France. Over the next 11 years, Homer’s journey would take him to a variety of marine destinations, from New Jersey to Maine, but especially—and repeatedly—to Gloucester and other parts of Cape Ann. It was on Cape Ann that Homer made his first watercolors and where he discovered his calling: to be a marine artist. And it was in Gloucester in 1880, at the end of these 11 years, where he enjoyed the most productive season of his life, composing more than 100 watercolors of astonishing beauty. Homer’s journey forever changed his life and the art of his country.
The Schooner “Thomas E. Lannon” was built in 1997 in Essex, MA. Berthed at historic Seven Seas Wharf at the Gloucester House Restaurant, Rogers Street, Gloucester, the Lannon offers two-hour sails and private charters from mid-May through mid-October. The “Thomas E. Lannon” is named for owner Tom Ellis’ maternal grandfather, who fished out of Gloucester from 1901-1943. On August 25 join the Cape Ann Museum and the Ellis family for a sail and imagine what it was like to sail on a fishing schooner out of Gloucester a hundred years ago.
Image credits: Winslow Homer (1836-1910), Sunset Fires, 1880. Watercolor on paper, 93/4 x 13 5/8. The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Gift of the William A. Coulter Fund, 1964.36.
Steve Rosenthal The Schooner “Thomas E. Lannon” in the Harbor #1 2019. Archival pigment print. Cape Ann Museum. Gift of the photographer, 2019.
About the Cape Ann Museum Continue reading “Cape Ann Museum Winslow Homer Sunset Harbor Cruise aboard the Schooner “Thomas E. Lannon” August 25”
PRESS RELEASE for Paul Niely at Jane Deering Gallery, Gloucester, MA
Gloucester Blue | the art of Cape Ann inventor, Paul Neily continues thru August 31st at Jane Deering Gallery, 19 Pleasant Street, Gloucester. On view are small painted drawings bathed in the light of blue, evoking memory and flashback, impression and recall. Paul Neily’s charmed drawings document his memory of the streets and lanes, houses and rooftops of Gloucester, a city that is changing. Neily’s reminiscence echos his reflection of a city real and beloved. Also on view will be a selection of unique furniture pieces designed by Neily. Gallery hours: Friday/Saturday/Sunday from 1-5pm and by appointment. Please contact Paul Neily at 978-491-1416 or paunei2004@yahoo.com.
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Don’t stop looking! Jeanne Blake photo August 14, 2019, shows whale off of Long Beach, back and forth between Rockport and Gloucester, and Thacher and Milk islands.
Once upon a Contest: Selection from Cape Ann Reads
ON VIEW AUGUST 1 – SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
SEPTEMBER RECEPTION & INVITED ARTIST TALK SEPTEMBER 19, 6PM
GLOUCESTER LYCEUM & SAWYER FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 2 DALE AVENUE, GLOUCESTER, MASS.
Reminder! Song & Dance Around the Planet with Sagit Zilberman at Sawyer Free Library part of summer 2019 Universe of Stories special programs
Wedneday August 14th at 10AM
Beautiful lighthouses in Gloucester, Cape Ann
Do you have a favorite here or elsewhere?
Photos courtesy Sawyer Free Library ©J Vitale
Gloucester Daily Times tremendous support for arts and library coverage is a big community builder.
glouc sfl postcard final 4 x 6
Special flyer from Sawyer Free – save the dates! Exhibition on view through September 30th and heading to Rockport next.
Good Morning Gloucester 