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