Tag: Art
Gloucester Smiles – 2134 with Local Artist Stapleton Kearns
Deck the Docks
Artiists on the Boulevard
Spring is in the air
With spring and Easter are just around the corner. Come on down to Arts Abound, 21 C Lexington Avenue, Magnolia, Gloucester, MA, shop local thank you
New artwork at Arts Abound
Judy Salah Plank’s artwork is displayed at Arts Abound, 21 C Lexington Avenue, Magnolia, Gloucester, MA. Judy Salah Plank’s artwork is unique, fun, colorful and interesting. Thank you for shopping local.
Gloucester Smiles – 1892
Deck the Docks Maritime Gloucester
Shop Small Shop Local, come on down, great artwork
Arts Abound Newsletter
Please click on the link below to see what has been going on at Arts Abound, 21 C Lexington Avenue, Magnolia, Gloucester, MA
Manchester by the Sea Historical Museum
A great way to spend some time this fall.
Cape Ann Plein Air
Reserve your tickets AND the night for the Cape Ann Plein Air Gala Awards Ceremony & Premiere Party, Saturday, October 9, 2021 from 5:00pm-10:00pm, at Glen T. MacLeod Cape Ann YMCA, 7 Gloucester Crossing Road. We look forward to viewing the work of our artists, painted throughout the week!
BUY TICKETS HERE: http://www.capeannpleinair.org/events/gala
What a way to top off a great week, as we experience the largest outdoor painting competition in New England!
Cape Ann Plein Air (CAPA) celebrates the region’s unparalleled arts legacy as the birthplace of plein air, and supports its several hundred working artists and cultural organizations. Preeminent artists from around the country will be painting all week, with many demonstrations open to the public.
Follow along here for news and updates!
Manchester Historical Museum Community Art Show
Artisan Market Saturday,, September 25, 2021
Hope to see all at the Artisan Market at 44 Commercial Street, Rear, Gloucester, MA
Please remember to shop local. Thank you
Peace and Healing
Cape Ann Made
More information to come.
Capturing the waves on Canvas
Manchester Historical Museum Community Art Show
Bid now Gloucester art at auction | Sotheby’s American Art sale closing March 5 and Doyle sale March 10
I track and bid at auctions because I help people buy art. From time to time I highlight here on GMG a few selections from upcoming auctions, fairs and shows solely because they have some Gloucester (Cape Ann) connection. In the early spring sales at two New York auction houses, artists include: Emma Fordyce MacRae, Gifford Beal, Jane Peterson, John Sloan, Lillian Westcott Hale, Paul Manship, W. Lester Stevens and Martha Walter.
BID NOW Sotheby’s American Art ON LINE– closes March 5th, 2019
Featuring works from the Patrick and Carlyn Duffy collection (yes that’s actor Patrick Duffy) some great ones failed to find a just right home at the live sale back in 2018.
Most of the sale is beyond Gloucester. The couple had a few classic Wyeths. — See all 119 lots here.
Doyle Fine Paintings LIVE auction March 10, 2020
a few of the paintings by artists with Gloucester ties
Andre Gisson lot 46 (pre-sale est $1200-$1800) at Doyle March 10, 2020 (no gloucester ties) See all 105 lots here.
Also Doyle At Home auction (bid live on line) March 4, 2020 lots here
Hirschl & Adler galleries just featured gorgeous Peterson paintings at the Winter Show
JANE PETERSON (1876-1965), Niles Pond (Yellow and Turquoise), ca. 1916-20, Oil on canvas, 32 x 32 in.
and drawing
JANE PETERSON (1876-1965) Harbor with Dunes Watercolor and gouache on paper, 12 x 18 in.
Good read! Front Page Rockport art show in Cape Ann Beacon
“…In 1954, I met my husband Lars-Erik Wiberg outside my father’s Rockport studio while he was working on a car. Yes, in those days one could park there. We married in 1957 and lived at the Fish House, 27 Bearskin Neck, while I transferred to UMass Art…” – excerpt Betty Allenbrook Wiberg
The front page Cape Ann Beacon story, Rockport is show’s final stop: Betty Allenbrook Wiberg is featured artist for Cape Ann Reads picture book exhibit, published on February 14, 2020, includes a great note by Wiberg. You can read the complete piece on the Beacon’s website here https://gloucester.wickedlocal.com/news/20200214/rockport-to-host-once-upon-contest . The exhibit is on display at Rockport Public Library through Feburary 29, 2020. There is a reception February 29 starting at 11am. Wiberg installed a concurrent temporary installation in the children’s room and display case in the hall, across from the wonderful Recchia Mother Goose sculpture.
Mother Goose genius design | 1938 rotating sculpture by artist Richard H. Recchia and Sam Hershey WPA mural Rockport Public Library #RockportMA
The Rockport Public Library maintains a wonderful art collection. When visiting the temporary Once Upon a Contest: Selections from Cape Ann Reads in the children’s room and the special Betty Allenbrook Wiberg installation, don’t miss the genius Mother Goose 1938 bronze by Richard H. Recchia, and the Sam Hershey WPA-era mural, Rockport Goes to War, 1939.
The new Josh Falk mural (2019) is behind the Rockport Public Library.
Photos & video clip: Catherine Ryan
Genius design bronze by Richard H. Recchia, Mother Goose, 1938
at the Rockport Public Library
This impression is annotated by the artist as a “sketch model sculpture by R. H. Recchia” (1888-1983). The sculpture rotates to illustrate the rhymes and beautifully expresses how children are captivated by stories. The sculpture is a tribute to his wife, Kitty Parsons (1889-1976), artist & writer, and one of the original founders of Rockport Art Assoc. It was originally situated within the library’s former smaller digs: the Rockport’s Carnegie Library established in 1906, a Beaux-Arts beauty around the corner, now a private home. It was one of 43 Carnegie libraries built in Massachusetts. In 1993 the library moved to its current site in an 1880s mill building, the Tarr School, thanks to the Denghausen bequest.
Parsons & Recchia resided and worked at their home “Hardscrabble” at 6 Summer Street in Rockport. (Rockport was their permanent address from 1928 till his death.) Recchia was born in Quincy. His dad was a stone carver from Verona who worked for Bela Pratt and Daniel Chester French. Later, Recchia was Pratt’s assistant.
For more bas relief examples by Recchia, see his Bela Pratt in the Yale collection, digitized entry here ) Recchia public sculptures are on permanent display at the Rockport Art Association & Museum. More photos below.
snippet video of Recchia Mother Goose sculpture rotating
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Sam Hershey WPA mural, 1939
Sam Hershey Rockport Goes to War featured Rockport Public Library; W. Lester Stevens WPA mural Preparing Rockport for Granite dating from the same year is across the street in the Post Office
Josh Falk street mural outside
Once Upon a Contest
is displayed on the same floor as Recchia and Hershey works February 3 – February 29, 2020.