Boston, MA – November 26, 2012 – Walker-Cunningham Fine Art, located on the second floor at 162 Newbury Street, Boston announces "Dora Atwater Millikin:  Sense of Place" an exhibiton of recent landscape paintings by reknowned South Coast Massachusetts artist Dora Atwater Millikin.  The work, including several from a series of Netherlands views,  will be on view at Walker-Cunningham Fine Art beginning Thursday, December 13, 2012 through January 12, 2013.  Opening reception:  Thursday, December 13, 5:30-8pm.  

In Dora's own words: My Netherlands Paintings

My mom was born and raised in the very Northern most part of the Netherlands a short distance from the city of Groningen.  As kids growing up, we went to visit the family once a year.  There was a 10 year lag in time when we did not visit, but now I go back every few years or so and bring my paint.  Family ties are strong in spite of our distances.

My uncle still maintains the ancestral farm which crosses through several polders and into the North Sea.  It is an incredibly beautiful and yet wind driven part of the world.  Very traditional and considered as being the 'open space' part of Holland because of it's mostly preserved farm lands with historical farmsteads.  The earliest buildings on my family's farm date from the 17th century!

The paintings that are at Walker-Cunningham were painted from smaller studies and drawings and 'remembered' favorite places on the farm.  They show red-tiled roofs of the antique barns adjacent to towering contemporary wind farms, ditches used to drain the land, the windmill once used for grinding wheat at Gernwerd, and the old house at Maarhuizen a short distance from our place at Ranum.

About DORA ATWATER MILLIKIN

Dora Atwater Millikin is a native of Little Compton, Rhode Island.  She attended the Stoneleigh-Burnham School in Greenfield, Massachusetts graduating with the Senior Art Prize and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Drawing and Art History from Newcomb College, Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

She subsequently received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, Connecticut.

Influenced by early American Modernism, Millikin’s subject of coastal New England scenery has an emphasis on the gritty, industrial aspects of the landscape, the ordinary and the contemporary.

She has received numerous awards and prizes in juried exhibitions including the Providence Art Club, The Salmagundi Club, the Newport Art Museum and the National Arts Club.  Her lengthy membership list includes the Providence Art Club, the Lyme Art Association and the Portsmouth Art Guild.  She is on the board of several arts related organizations including South Coast Artists, Little Compton Historical Society, and the Tiverton Arts Council. 

Ms. Millikin’s work can be found in numerous private, public and corporate collections.   

She is represented exclusively by Walker-Cunningham Fine Art of Boston and maintains a studio in Westport Point, Massachusetts.

About WALKER-CUNNINGHAM FINE ART

Established in 1979, Walker-Cunningham Fine Art is a fine art gallery located at No. 162 Newbury Street in an historic brownstone in Boston’s premier shopping district.

The gallery serves collectors and institutions in their acquisition of fine American paintings with a private salon-style setting allowing for a comfortable and confidential space in which to view and discuss potential acquisitions.

A full service gallery, Walker-Cunningham Fine Art welcomes the opportunity to work with collectors both new and established.  With rigorous attention to quality and value, the gallery offers a  range of services including buying, selling, and brokering; restoration and framing consultation and coordination; appraisal and auction representation; and access to the highest quality transport,  storage and installation services.

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