Thirty years of canvases—likable, honest, and lively to a one—justify themselves on the museum walls of the PMA’s “Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford.”
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In Bradford’s color-infused world of superheroes and swimmers, viewers and her figures bathe together outside of time and space.
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Check out visitors Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher’s review of Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford on the art blog Two Coats of Paint.
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We at the PMA are grateful and honored to have had the opportunity to work with Jim and will miss his quiet humor and his friendship.
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“A day never goes by that I am not mindful of my ancestors and their efforts to protect and preserve our traditions. It’s what has afforded me the opportunity to practice a traditional art and do what I love for a living.” —Sarah Sockbeson
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Opening Nov. 4 (through Mar. 5) is “Kathy Butterly: Out of one, many/Headscapes.” It’s an apt follow-up to Bradford in that Butterly’s work often exemplifies our unceasing state of transformation.
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Portland Museum of Art treated its Contemporaries and Director’s Circle members on Aug. 10 to a playful, colorful and bold Summer Party, loosely inspired by the exhibit “Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford.”
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“Portland is bursting with creativity, arts, and culture and it can’t wait to inspire you. While the Portland Museum of Art is the largest and oldest art museum in the state of Maine, it truly offers guests a great outlook on World Art.”
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Anjuli Lebowitz, The PMA’s Judy Glickman Lauder Associate Curator of Photography, is on the judging panel for Maine Magazine’s up-and-coming Maine artists feature.
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Discover more about the vibrant painting Turtle Knows Your Name by Ashley Bryan, now on view on the fourth floor of the Payson Building!
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How does a superhero become superhuman? Friedrich Nietzsche can offer some guidance: “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
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“Full circle” is the phrase that comes to mind apropos Katherine Bradford’s exhibition Flying Women at the Portland Museum of Art. Organized by Jaime DeSimone, these forty or so paintings span twenty-two years of her life as an artist, an existence that began much earlier in Maine when she was a wife and mother of young twins.
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The artist’s experiences in the Civil War and after helped him transcend stereotypes in portraying Black experience.
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In this moment of racial reckoning, we cannot continue viewing Homer’s masterpiece as an apolitical seascape painting.
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The Metropolitan Museum showcases the 19th-century artist in an exhibition of frank, profoundly affecting pictures.
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“Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents,” a compelling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art organized by the Met’s Stephanie Herdrich and Sylvia Yount with Christopher Riopelle of the National Gallery, London, examines almost 90 of the artist’s works within current political and social contexts.
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The Met’s show, which was organized by Stephanie L. Herdrich and Sylvia Yount and will travel to the National Gallery in London, is the largest overview of Homer’s career since a 1995 retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
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The Portland Museum of Art is excited to announce its participation in the Art Bridges Collection Loan Partnership, an innovative art lending model that allows artworks from a diverse group of museums to travel the country.
Read MoreThe Portland Museum of Art has partnered with Maine’s Bureau of Parks and Lands and Freeport retailer L.L. Bean this summer and fall to temporarily install 25 reproductions of paintings from its permanent collection at state-managed parks in southern and coastal Maine.
Read MoreThe Portland Museum of Art, along with architects from Dovetail Design Strategists have announced four renowned architecture firms shortlisted for the unification and expansion of Portland Museum of Art’s new campus in the heart of Downtown Portland, Maine.
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