Marking forty years in business, Tom Veilleux Gallery will be featuring works of art drawn from the gallery’s collection at their new location at Six City Center in Portland, Maine.  The exhibition includes works of art by major figures in American art from the period 1900-1950.

Drawings rooted in a nineteenth century tradition by John Singer Sargent, Lilian Westcott Hale and Thomas Wilmer Dewing, are amongst the earliest works shown.

The exhibition, weighted heavily towards the early modernists, includes fine examples of works on paper by Charles Burchfield, Charles Demuth, George Luks and Gaston Lachaise as well as oils by Marsden Hartley, Marguerite Zorach, Max Weber, Guy Pene du Bois, William Glackens,  Rockwell Kent and Kenneth Hayes Miller.

An increasing focus of the gallery in recent years has been American sculpture. A significant group of pieces by Elie Nadelman, which descended in the family of the artist, are included, as are important pieces by Paul Manship and William Zorach. Also included will be a recently discovered group of sculptures and drawings by Robert Laurent, the folk art inspired, modernist sculptor, credited as being the first direct carver of the modernist era.

Rounding out the exhibition will be two works by Maxfield Parrish and a 1937 watercolor by Andrew Wyeth. The Wyeth is one of only five paintings that he  painted onMonhegan Island,Maine. It was done when he was only twenty years old, shortly after his first successful exhibition at Macbeth Galleries in New York.

The exhibition will be ongoing through mid October. The gallery is located at Six City Center,Portland, Maine 04101. Gallery Hours are Tuesday through Friday 10-5. A catalogue of the exhibition is available upon request.

 Contact info:

Tom Veilleux, Olivia Polselli

207.828.0784