In the Bedroom (2001)
Hard Tellin’… is less an attempt to define Maine, or Maine in the movies, than an opportunity to celebrate four great films that accomplish something most art should aspire to: they capture the ineffable in a place and its people at a particular moment in time. They get at something unique and a bit hard to define about us. They feel, for lack of a better word, honest.
In the spring of 2018, art conservator Nina Roth-Wells came to the PMA to review a painting that had just come into the collection. Observing the painting under UV light revealed unusually large patches of darkness, indicating that something had been added on top of the varnish.
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