Final Days: Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Place
June 5, 2010 - September 6, 2010

The relationship between Winslow Homer (1836–1910) and the Portland Museum of Art is long-standing and intimate. Homer exhibited at the Museum in his lifetime and in the course of the 20th century the Museum has become a symbolic home for the artist. In honor of the centennial of Homer’s death, this exhibition will showcase the Museum’s collection of Homer watercolors and oils on canvas. Featuring 28 works, it will be the first time since 1988 that all of these works will be on view in the Charles Shipman Payson Building. In 2006, the Museum purchased his studio at Prouts Neck and is currently involved in a major conservation and restoration project at that storied site. The Winslow Homer Studio restoration will be completed in 2012.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the Museum has launched a website of highlights from its Winslow Homer illustrations collection. See it now.

Funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.


In the News

“‘Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Place’ Get a Brilliant Showing at the Portland Museum of Art”
The New York Sun, August 12, 2010

“An eye for the telling moment”
Boston Globe, August 7, 2010

“The Artful Traveler: Rarely Seen Works by Winslow Homer in Portland, Maine”
Everett Potter’s Travel Report, July 28, 2010

“Bob Keyes: Home of Homer expertise”
The Press Herald, July 25, 2010

“The art of Winslow Homer”
WCSH6 207
, July 19, 2010

“Stirrings of New Art Emerge in Winslow Homer’s Maine”
Artinfo.com, July 13, 2010

“This Must Be the Place”
The Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2010

“Portland Museum of Art showcasing rarely seen masterpieces of preeminent landscape painter and printmaker”
Lewiston Sun Journal, June 28, 2010

“Homer’s home”
The Portland Phoenix, June 16, 2010

“Winslow Homer’s Odyssey”
Down East Magazine, July 2010

“Maine hits a Homer run”
Maine Sunday Telegram, May 30, 2010

“Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Place”
Antiques and Fine Art Magazine, Summer 2010

“Winslow Homer, Web designer”
The Forecaster, May 24, 2010

View Image Gallery

Winslow Homer (United States, 1836–1910), Artists Sketching in the White Mountains, 1868, oil on panel, 9 7/16 x 15 13/16 inches. Portland Museum of Art.

American Moderns: Masterworks on Paper from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
June 24, 2010 - September 12, 2010

American Moderns showcases 90 works on paper from the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, by nationally recognized artists such as Edward Hopper, John Marin, Andrew Wyeth, and Georgia O’Keeffe. This is the first in-depth examination and presentation of the Atheneum’s American modernist works on paper. Beginning with the Ashcan school, including works by John Sloan and William Glackens, the exhibition traces the emergence of American modernism with John Marin and Georgia O’Keeffe concluding with strong examples of postwar realism, with works by Ellsworth Kelly and Andrew Wyeth. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see paintings by Edward Hopper depicting scenes of Maine in the state.

This exhibition was organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut. Made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Generously supported by Isabelle and Scott Black.

Local sponsorship provided by TD Bank, with media support from WCSH 6, the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, and MPBN. 


In the News:

“American Moderns”
Lewiston Sun Journal, July 26, 2010

“Modernism from Hartford to Portland”
Yankee Magazine Blog, July 7, 2010

“‘American Moderns’ is a ‘run don’t walk to it exhibit”
Maine Sunday Telegram Review, July 4, 2010

“Hopper, Marin, O’Keeffe, Kent…”
Maine Sunday Telegram Feature, June 20, 2010

Programs:

Gallery Talks: Selected Fridays and Saturdays
Paint Hopper’s Light, September 11, 2010

View Image Gallery

John Marin, “Big Wood Island,” 1914, The Schnakenberg Fund. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.

Anna Hepler: Makeshift
July 24, 2010 - October 17, 2010

In July, Maine artist Anna Hepler constructed a monumental installation inside the Museum’s Great Hall. Made from a nest-like mesh of salvaged and sewn sheet plastic, The Great Haul takes advantage of the Museum’s expansive entry space. A second exhibition of Hepler’s work, on view in the fourth floor gallery, features a series of 20 cyanotype and drypoint prints made from digital photographs of small sculptures, and like her large installations, these works are defined by light. This is Hepler’s first solo exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art, and this exhibition is the first in a series called Circa that explores compelling aspects of contemporary art in the state of Maine.

Video about the exhibition and Anna Hepler.

Circa
is a series of exhibitions featuring the work of living artists from Maine and beyond.

Circa
is made possible by S. Donald Sussman.

Corporate support provided by The VIA Group.


In the News:

“art current: Anna Hepler: ‘Makeshift’ and ‘Addendum’”
The Free Press, August 26, 2010

“Artist Anna Hepler”
WCSH6, 207, August 23, 2010

“Making the common uncommon”
Sun Journal, August 23, 2010

“Fearful symmetries, courtesy of plastic and packing tape”
Boston Globe, August 8, 2010

“Museum nets resplendent ‘Haul’”
Maine Sunday Telegram, August 1, 2010

“massively creative”
Go: The Press Herald, July 22, 2010

View Image Gallery

Anna Hepler, Cyanotype 6, 2009, inkjet on rag paper, 36 x 47 1/2 inches. Courtesy of the artist.