Maybe it's the rain-foreshortened summer. Maybe it's just August coming down as usual. Or maybe it was Sunday's bike ride to the beach and sailing race. But I've got big museum plans for the month, and they all seem to involve the shore...
1) We're taking mom to see Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England at the Portland Museum of Art next week. The Rockwell Kent above is from the exhibit.
2) The exhibit I really want to see is Jamie Wyeth - Seven Deadly Sins at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, in which he uses seagulls to depict each of the sins. Tough to do both in one day, though. A good piece on that exhibit is here.
3) I know we'll make it to View from the Terrace: The Paintings of Charles Hopkinson at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester.
4) Maybe I'll make that one a two-fer with The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes at the Peabody Essex Museum. I usually get to everything at the PEM, not sure how I've missed this one. Greg has a few words on it.
Image: Rockwell Kent, Wreck of the D. T. Sheridan, circa 1949, oil on canvas, 27 3/8 x 43 7/8 inches, Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Bequest of Elizabeth B. Noyce.
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