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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Down East Magazine reports major changes at Maine museums

Changing of the Guard at Maine Museums
Down East Magazine - August 4th, 2009 20:44

As improbable as it seems, Sharon Corwin, director of the Colby College Museum of Art, may be Maine’s longest-serving art museum director. She’s been in her job for three years. In what some see simply as an extra-ordinary coincidence, the leadership of virtually every other Maine art ...

Boston's Acme Fine Art exhibits Provincetown masters

Eyeing Provincetown's place in American art
Boston Globe 2 - August 4th, 2009 16:23

Some of the great artists of the 20th century put paint to canvas at the Days Lumberyard studios in Provincetown. Robert Motherwell was there, and Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, and George McNeil, among others. “Days Lumberyard Studios 1915-1972,’’ a rewarding exhibit at Acme ...

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	State of the Art J.C. Carlson Destination Maine: Artists' Vacationland Rugged and wild, the coast of Maine has inspired generations of painters to capture its primeval forests and rocky shores in all artistic mediums. Two idyllic rental cottages in Maine offer vacationers dramatic scenery once enjoyed and painted by renowned American artists John Marin and the ... Read more

Rockwell Kent's "Wreck of the D.T. Sheridan" is on view at the Portland Museum of Art's "Call of the Coast" exhibition.

What they painted on the summer vacations
Boston Globe - August 4th, 2009 20:43

PORTLAND, Maine - Breezy and to the point, “Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England’’ is an ideal, if flawed, summer exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art. Ideal, because a century ago, painters flocked to New England shores each summer...

'The Chimaera of Arezzo' at the Getty Villa
LA Times Arts - August 4th, 2009 17:57

The Getty features an exhibition featuring the masterpiece of Etruscan bronzework known as the Chimaera of Arezzo and traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera over five centuries of classical art.

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	Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron on View at the Portland Museum of Art Release Date: 03 August 2009 During her lifetime, Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was recognized as one of the leading portrait photographers of her era. Cameron is known for assembling photographic albums as invitations to friends and family to collaborate in her artistic aspirations. This summer the Portland Museum of ... Read more

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