My View of Life on the Dock
After a very successful There’s More to Sea Art Show at Ocean Alliance, ( The Paint Factory), the sky was so awesome and there was a small cruise ship, I think it is the American Glory, leaving port. The Beauport was also was cruising Gloucester’s Beautiful Harbor.
Come on down to the Paint Factory open until 5:00. Lots of great items
Hi kids:
Hope everyone is well and enjoying this beautiful weather.
We will be cleaning Horton Street on Saturday for the Art Show at Ocean Alliance.
JULY 27, 2018
Friday 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
JULY 28, 2018
SATURDAY, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
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JULY 29, 2018
SUNDAY, 9:00 – 5:00 PM
Ocean Alliance
32 Horton St, Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930
When: Saturday, July 28, 2018
Time: 8:00 – 9:00
Where: Horton Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
JULY 27, 2018
Friday 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
JULY 28, 2018
SATURDAY, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
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JULY 29, 2018
SUNDAY, 9:00 – 5:00 PM
Ocean Alliance
32 Horton St, Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930
Heidi L Johnson holds a BFA from Tufts University and a Diploma from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston where she was awarded the Traveling Scholar prize in 1990, after which she lived and worked in Italy. Johnson is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including two Pollock Krasner Grants, the Elizabeth Foundation Artist Grant, the Bronx Council on the Arts BRIO Award in Painting. Fellowships include the Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale, Norway; the Bronx Museum Artist in the Market Place, New York; and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Residencies include Byrdcliffe Foundation for the Arts, New York; Robert M. MacNamara Foundation, Maine; Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Program, New York; and ARTOMI International Residency Program, New York, among others. She has exhibited widely in the US and internationally in Sweden, Norway, Australia and Canada. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections. Johnson maintains a studio in the Bronx, New York City.
The exhibition will continue thru July 31st. Gallery hours: Friday, Saturday & Sunday 1:00 – 4:00pm and by appointment 917-902-4359 19 Pleasant Street Gloucester MA 01930 info@janedeeringgallery.com http://www.janedeeringgallery.com
Stephen LaPierre, an oil painter, is currently a member of the Rocky Neck Art Colony in Gloucester, MA. LaPierre’s dayscapes and nightscapes follow the tradition of ashcan school artists, John Sloan, Everette Shinn and Edward Hopper. Meanwhile, LaPierre, a Haverhill, MA native, always adds his personal “colorificus” to each piece he creates, which he likes to call “approximationism“.
Event Dates:
Location: Rocky Neck Art Colony/Stephen LaPierre’s Studio
Phone Number: 321-537-7762
Address: 75 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930
Sunday Morning Rocky Neck Oil Painting with Stephen LaPierre throughout July, beginning July 8th on Rocky Neck in East Gloucester 7AM-9:30 AM Learn to paint from life. Classes will be held outdoors…except on rainy Sundays when classes held in Stephen’s studio at 75 Rocky Neck Ave 2nd floor… auditors welcome Free tuition…but students need to bring an 11″ x 14″ min size canvas (canvas or linen) a field or French easel with palette, small cup,turpentine, drinking water ,small mirror, paper towels or rags, specific brushes and tones.
Brushes:
rounds 0,2,6
filberts 2,4,6
flats 8,10,12
Tones:
permalba white {combo of zinc and titanium white}
lemon yellow
cadmium yellow light
yellow ochre
cadmium orange
cadmium red light
alizarin crimson
french ultramarine blue
cobalt blue
phthalocyanine blue
please register at 321-537-7762 0r st.lapierre@gmail.com
From the museum’s press release:
Cape Ann Museum’s special exhibition of works by artist and illustrator Harrison Cady (1877–1970)
Affectionately known to many as the bug painter, Harrison Cady (1877–1970) was a much loved member of Cape Ann’s summer art colony throughout the 20th century. A prolific illustrator, a printmaker and a painter, Cady was one of the last links to our nation’s Golden Age of Illustration, a distinction he earned through his long collaboration with writer Thornton Burgess. View from the Headlands, a special exhibition of works by artist and illustrator Harrison Cady (1877-1970) will open at the Cape Ann Museum on July 7, 2018, and remain on display through October 28, 2018.
Cady began his 70-year career as an illustrator with the Brooklyn Eagle and later worked for numerous popular American publications, including Life magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, the Saturday Evening Post, and Good Housekeeping. His syndicated comic strip “Peter Rabbit” ran in the New York Herald Tribune for 28 years.
A frequent visitor to Rockport, Massachusetts, Cady made it his permanent summer home in 1920, purchasing a seafront property known as “The Headlands.” With his studio “the Silo” located nearby, Cady shifted his focus to painting landscapes and harbor scenes. Cady was an early member of the Rockport Art Association, founded in 1921.
View from the Headlands draws on public and private collections throughout the region with examples of Cady’s early magazine illustrations, his work with writer Thornton W. Burgess, and his later landscape paintings. The exhibition reflects the Cape Ann Museum’s commitment to preserving and presenting work that celebrates the area’s culture and history.
Harrison Cady (1877–1970). Lane’s Cove, c.1930s. Oil on board. The James Collection, promised gift to the Cape Ann Museum.
Walter Harrison Cady was born and raised in Gardner, Massachusetts, and headed to New York City at eighteen. The successful artist eventually had an eight room studio in the Sixty Seventh Studios building at 27 West 67, NYC. The Cadys purchased a summer house and studio on Atlantic Avenue in Rockport (see photos above). In addition to this exciting and rare chance to see original work by Cady at Cape Ann Museum, there is a new book celebrating Cady’s art currently in production: Madness in Crowds: The Teeming Mind of Harrison Cady. Cady had long ties with the Rockport Art Association and local artists. Cady’s work is in the collection of the Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and various private collections and institutions. The Archives of American Art has a gifted collection of Harrison Cady (sketchbooks, correspondence, estate papers digitized. How fantastic that work will be acquired by the Cape Ann Museum.
photos below: Harrison Cady sketchbook, ca. 1943. Harrison Cady papers, 1902-2002. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Library of Congress
Searching for artist! Byron Brooks? query from Kate Foley posted November 2016 on Good Morning Gloucester generated comments about the artist and his work. I was inspired to piece together some of my primary research and the comments into an informal online catalogue. It’s very much a loose work in progress! Hope it helps people searching for information about the artist, and compels collectors to share additional images of his art. Just this week (6/27/18) another GMG reader commented that they acquired a Brooks painting in Tucson, AZ.
Byron Brooks is not listed in any artist biographical compilations. The index card sketch below mimics the format as IF he were listed in Who Was Who in American Art:
BROOKS, Byron [Painter] b. 1906, Manchester, Mass | d. 1978, Gloucester, MA.
Addresses: 12 Stage Fort Park Avenue and 2 Davis St in Gloucester, MA (Willet Street during the war)
Studied: not known
Member: Manchester Art Association
Exhibited: 1961, Tenth Annual Cape Ann Festival of the Arts, Visual Arts Exhibition, Section VIII, Balcony Show. Painting, “Rock Clipper Ship”. Emily Anderson chairman (curator) 1957, Sixth Annual Cape Ann Festival of the Arts, “Cottage by the Sea”, Group SP (Sunday Painters section), curated by Emily Anderson
*Brooks ran a gallery from his home
Work: collection of Addison Gilbert Hospital
Employment: Driver-Delivery; employed by City of Gloucester Highway Dept
Veteran: WWII veteran, served in the Coast Guard
Stephen LaPierre and his upcoming gallery shows, his free classes, etc.
This week Dawn Southworth is bringing her Annisquam Art Class to visit Stephen’s amazing Rocky Neck studio… filled with images of Cape Ann, Key West and clowns with cell phones. They are sure to have a blast!
This week and thru the weekend, master oil painter, Stephen LaPierrre, is featuring his Key West Collection,, plein air oil paintings of the architecture, foliage and fun of the southernmost city.
Enjoy these forever images of America’s tropical playground… with much of the pleasure happening when that sun goes down!!
Free beer while it lasts, to those over 21 years old, who are still able to climb those stairs at 75 Rocky Neck Ave... next to The Rudder… with their half-price menu most of the week & weekend… Don’t miss the fun this week, at the end of the Neck!!!
Summer Gallery Hours: Every day 11AM-9PM
Stephen LaPierre Studio and Gallery
75 Rocky Neck Ave up the stairs!!!
321 537 7762
Here is an example of some of the works.
CloselyRelated closes tomorrow!
Lynne Saubele wall or ‘booth’ display from the group exhibition CloselyRelated at Flatrocks Gallery, curated by Juni VanDyke.
Installation views of the exibition Continue reading “Last chance! Closely Related at Flatrocks”
If you missed the I Am More Project by wonderful artist Amy Kerr, this show has been extended. It is an amazing show.
This is just to let you know that due to popular demand, the opening exhibit of the portraits at the Paint Factory has been extended:
The I Am More Opening at the Paint Factory (32 Horton St) has been extended to this afternoon (Wed) from 1-5, Thursday from 9-5 and Friday 9-5.
If you have family or friends who wanted to see all the portraits in one place, this is their chance. This does not include the work from the additional artists.
Gloucester’s Stage Fort Park playground and glorious natural setting spark imagination and exciting adventures. The gigantic truck play sculpture was re-built and resited and it’s been tricked out with a slide and an official Cape Ann license plate. Hoping a sea serpent returns with a few Virginia Lee Burton icons one day soon.
Check out Painting with Pauline LIVE at Trio Restaurant and Bar, Thursday 6:30-7:30pm, 64 Main Street, hosted by Bridge Cape Ann and Pauline’s Gifts. The weather forecast looks perfect for a fun event at that pretty outside deck.
Italiano’s has evolved into Trio: “Owners Deo and Paula Braga are creating a legacy of high quality family dining here on Cape Ann. The acclaimed Azorean celebrates the classic cuisine of the Azores… and now they present the Trio Restaurant, Portuguese, American and Italian cuisine. Trio celebrates Italian American and Portuguese dishes, the ones we all know and love, crafted from the best ingredients, with the professional flair of chef Manny Lapa. From salad to dessert, the menu is familiar, comforting, and always delicious.”
Nice touch that high geranium on Trio’s building.
Beach and going over to the Paint Factory for the amazing I Am More project, artist Amy Kerr.
I Am More Opening Exhibit
I Am More is a project that began in Gloucester to help people remember that they are more than their mental suffering. The opening exhibit will be held this weekend at the Paint Factory, hosted by Ocean Alliance, featuring 16 portraits in pastel and colored pencil by Amy Kerr, accompanied by essays written by the portrait subjects about all the ways they are more than their struggles. The exhibit will also feature work by artists Loren Doucette, Susan B. Field, Brenda Malloy, Rebecca Siswick Graham, Donna Ardizzoni, Katherine Richmond, Ramani Rangan, Joan Keefe, Anita Pandolfe Ruchman, Sophie Trumbour, and Gloucester High School students Gianna Cabral and Kyla Snell. The event will feature the original music of portrait subject and composer, Chris Cho. On Friday evening at sunset there will be live acoustic music on the Paint Factory patio provided by Kitt Cox and Susan Wood. Come join us Friday from 7-10 pm for the opening reception, and Saturday and Sunday from 9-5 pm, and see all of the new work that has been done on the inside of the Paint Factory under the leadership of Geoffrey H. Richon Co., Inc.
Robert Williams event at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center called The Art of Combat Veterans.
Not to be missed.
Amy Kerr a very talented artist has created this great event. Please save the date and come on by June 15, 16, 17, 2018.
Save the date, the unveiling of the I Am More opening exhibit is just 15 days away!
Come down to Ocean Alliance at the Paint Factory on Friday June 15th from 7-10pm for the opening reception. Gallery hours will be June 16th & 17th 9-5pm
Learn more about the I Am More portraits at Amy Kerr’s website: https://amykerrdrawsportraits.wordpress.com
This is one of the paintings in Erin Luman’s upcoming show. It’s called “Thirty Six.”
The Jane Deering Gallery will host a month-long exhibition of the work of Gloucester artist Erin Luman, whose new paintings focus on the cottages of Long Beach in Gloucester. Luman’s previous work explored the power lines, buildings and rooftops of downtown Gloucester (You prolly read about that one on Good Morning Gloucester here), and now she’s turned her view toward the beach to make sure the cottages that have served as the backdrop of generations of family vacations are remembered. The opening reception will be held this Saturday June 2, from 4 to 6 p.m. The Jane Deering Gallery is at 19 Pleasant Street in Gloucester.
Good Morning Gloucester 