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The Friends of the Sawyer Free Library Annual Art Auction 2021 is on!  54 artists donated original works of art to help the library.

To generate excitement and get the ball moving, a hallmark of the annual art auction is the group show featured in the lovely Matz Gallery, a remarkable main entrance venue. Temporary shows of work by living artists are rotated monthly. In Gloucester, Massachusetts, art at the threshold greets all library visitors. What a treat to walk though an art exhibit to enter a library! The library interior has boasted major bequests via philanthropists and local big wheels since the library’s namesake benefactor, Samuel Sawyer. Books, art, library and learning were essential and inseparable to the founders.

The contemporary Annual Art Auction group shows begin as silent auctions with starting bids set low (well below retail for some of the participating artists*) ahead of a LIVE event. The idea is the bidding will rise above opening reserves so that The Friends of the Sawyer Free Library Annual Art Auction fundraiser can be a success.

*scroll down for checklist and to view the lots

Preview | Silent Auction

DEADLINES APPROACHING – There’s still time to visit, enjoy, and leave a silent bid in person

During the month of September 2021, beautiful art works by 54 artists–which they’ve so generously donated to the Art Auction–were installed in the singular Matz Gallery. Casual, emerging and established creatives are united in their support of our local library. View the art in person. Take notes. You may recognize artists, neighborhoods, a favorite motif or medium. These auctions are a great opportunity for a first time original art buyer or for a collector that helps an artist with a first time sale.

Leave a bid and/or try again when the auction moves on line October 1-5. The highest September bid will be the beginning reserve for the online auction October 1 – 5, 2021.

Immediately followed by ONLINE AUCTION: October 1-5, 2021

Signs of the times – Covid 19 precautions and greater access have spurred the LIVE auction to move online. Visit www.sawyerfreelibrary.org October 1-5, 2021

Bonus- The art is framed and ready to take home and hang after the online auction concludes.

2021 participating ARTISTS | preview lots

Support our local artists and Friends of the Sawyer Free Library

Lot #, Artist Name, Title, Minimum opening bid

1. Mary Rhinelander McCarl, Blue China Basket of Flowers, $100
2. Katherine Coakley, Half Moon Beach, $200
3. Ray Crane, Survivor (Paint Factory), $300
4. Roy McCauley, Goin’ Fishing, $100
5. Carole Loiacono, Gloucester Mooring, $150
6. Fred Kepler, The Gardener, $100
7. Nancy Alimansky, The Red Sail, $95
8. Nancy Molvig, Wash Day in Farnesse, $250
9. Mary Rhinelander, Eastern Point Lighthouse, $75
10. Isabelle K. Brown, Schooner Thomas E. Lannon, $100
11. Brenda Malloy, A Way Through, $50
12. James G. Watson, Lynx and Adventure of Pavillion Beach, $100
13. Jeff Weaver, Striper Fisherman, $400
14. Karen Fitzgerald, Breezy Day, $75
15. Marion Hall, Back Shore from Half Moon Beach, $100
16. David P. Curtis, Summer Afternoon, $150
17. Cynthia Asaro
18. Charlotte Roberts, Morning – Little River, $100
19. Ted Bidwell, Low Tide, $100
20. Joy Halsted, America the Beautiful, $300
21. Deanie Johnson, Autumn Marsh, $200
22. Sandra Herdman, Hideaway Cove, $40
23. Cynthia Dunaway, It’s Never Too Late, $200
24. Patricia McCarthy, Our Lady of Good Voyage, $100
25. Melissa Alibertie, Summer on the Annisquam River, $100
26. Dina Gomery, The Red Barn, $200
27. Pamela Burke, Good Harbor Sunrise, $40
28. Sheila Farren Billings, Safe Harbor, $100
29. Ann Mechen Ziergiebel, Dusk Ipswich Bay, $225
30. Peter Tysver, Summer Sailing, $100
31. Coco BeRkman, Dog Dog Dog, $80
32. Susan W. Daly, Pink Sky, $100
33. Jane Wolf, Wingaersheek Storm, $75
34. Patricia Doran, Sunset in Magnolia, $1000
35. Alyce Wherren, Sea and Shore, $95
36. Michael Cangemi, The Shore, $95
37. Susan M. Funk, Red Tractor, $150
38. Michael DeCosimo, Autumn Leaves, $185
39. Nancy Caplan, Morning Light, $195
40. Jerry Ackerman, The Pantry Family, $120
41. Linda Lea Bertrand, Pepperil Cove, $200
42. Shirley Hamilton, Lanes Cove Shack, $300
43. Anita Beloff, Becky’s Flowers, $90
44. Lynda Goldberg, Sunflowers in Provence, $150
45. Curtis Wilcox, After Life, $40
46. Barbara Kremer, View from Plum Cove Beach, $175
47. Phyllis Feld, Marsh Grasses, $100
48. Jeffrey Marshall, Taking Inventory (Hiltz), $100
49. Jessica “Jess” Semenaro, Rocks on Seaweed, $30
50. Olga Hayes, Rudbeckia, $75
51. James Formichella, Tokyo Racing, $70
52. Daryl Jackson, Turbine, $30
53. Ann Lafferty, Rip Tide, $125
54. Roger Martin, Dig In, $100

NOTE NEW DAYS/HOURS at Sawyer Free Library: M-W 8-6; Th 10-7; F-S 10-5

Face masks required.