"Call of the Coast''
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"Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England'' will chronicle the development of impressionist Connecticut and modernist Maine and will feature 74 works drawn from the collections of the Portland Museum of Art and the Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Conn. "Call of the Coast'' will be on view June 25 through Oct. 12 at the Portland Museum. Artists banded together for purposes of camaraderie, creativity, and commerce, and founded coastal art colonies from Connecticut to Maine. Old Lyme, Cos Cob, Ogunquit, and Monhegan were settled at different times by artists and illustrated life in each community. Beginning in the early 1870s, the village of Cos Cob attracted artists from New York and became one of Connecticut's major art colonies. These artists included impressionist J. Alden Weir, his father, painter Robert W. Weir, and John Henry Twachtman. They all summered at the Holley House, the center of the community. Summer classes taught by Twachtman and Weir during the 1890s under the auspices of the Art Students League brought such artists as Charles Ebert, Mary Roberts Ebert, Daniel Putnam and the Japanese artist Genjiro Yeto to the school and encouraged experimentation. Accomplished painters such as impressionist Theodore Robinson and Childe Hassam also painted in Cos Cob. Henry Ward Ranger arrived in Old Lyme, in 1899, attracted by the tidal marshes and ever-changing light. While Twachtman saw the Connecticut coast as a place of isolation, Ranger viewed himself as the leader of a new school of American landscape painting. Ranger stayed in the boarding house of Florence Griswold and invited his artist friends, including Lewis Cohen, Louis Paul Dessar, William Henry Howe, Henry Rankin Poore, and Clark Voorhees, to join him; an art colony was born. Miss Griswold's home became the epicenter of the Old Lyme art colony. The arrival in 1903 of the dynamic Childe Hassam inspired Old Lyme painters to experiment with high-key color and greater impasto. Just as Ranger presided over the colony in its early years, Hassam set the tone for its later phase, for which it is best known. In 1936 the artists incorporated into the Florence Griswold Association and after her death, purchased her home and opened a house museum in 1947. In search of cooler temperatures, Old Lyme painters often made trips to Ogunquit and Monhegan, Maine. Ogunquit, a picturesque fishing village in southern Maine, played host to an ideological contrast between two artistic cultures in the early 20th Century: the regionalist image of "old" New England by Boston painter Charles Woodbury and the modernist worldview of charismatic New York modernist Hamilton Easter Field. Woodbury established a course of instruction that put Ogunquit on the map as an art colony with a reputation as a haven for single women from proper Boston families, including Gertrude Fiske. Field established his own school in 1911, and in 1929 the Hamilton Easter Field Art Foundation was created by five former students. The differences between Field's modernists and Woodbury's more traditional set were manifest. The creative tension between artists remained in place until the mid-20th Century, when the Barn Gallery and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art were formed. In 1979, the Barn Gallery Associates gave the Portland Museum of Art the gift of the Hamilton Easter Field Art Foundation Collection of more than 50 paintings, sculptures and works on paper that document the rise of American modernism in the early 20th century. The remoteness and rugged landscape of Monhegan Island, Maine, attracted artists in the 1890s, including Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott and Eric Hudson. Old Lyme artists, including Charles and Mary Ebert, Ernest Albert, William Chadwick, William Robinson, Edward Rook, Henry Selden and Wilson Irvine, summered on Monhegan. By the 1950s, Monhegan fell out of favor as communities in Provincetown, Mass., and Woodstock and Long Island, N.Y., rose to prominence. Today, however, Monhegan continues to attract artists from around the country. A 128-page full-color catalog will accompany the exhibition, with essays by Thomas Denenberg, chief curator at the Portland Museum of Art, Susan Danly, curator of graphics, photography, and contemporary art at the Portland Museum of Art, and Amy Kurtz Lansing, curator at the Florence Griswold Museum. The catalogis available in the Museum Store for $29.95. ''Call of the Coast'' will be on view at the Florence Griswold Museum Oct. 24, 2009 through Jan. 31, 2010. Generously supported by Scott and Isabelle Black, with additional support from Surf Point Foundation. Corporate support provided by Dead River Co. Media support is provided by WCSH 6, Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, and MPBN. For more information about the Portland Museum, call (207) 775-6148 or visit portlandmuseum.org. 
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