Maine Antique Digest May 2015

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22-B Maine Antique Digest, May 2015
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Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibi-
tions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials
at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of
the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and website for further infor-
mation. All listings must include an image. Electronic images are preferred, but
we can accept photographs or slides. The information may be e-mailed to <exhibi
> or mailed to Exhibitions, Maine Antique Digest,
PO Box 1429, Waldoboro, ME 04572.
William Klein (b. 1928), Beach Bodies,
Coney Island, 2013, archival pigment print,
39" x 59". ©William Klein, courtesy How-
ard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
—Through May 2
—New York City
Howard Greenberg Gallery presents
nearly 50 color images taken during the
summer of 2013 in William Klein+Brook-
lyn. Klein was commissioned by Sony to
shoot photographs of Brooklyn. He cap-
tured people in varied settings from a tat-
too parlor to a Hasidic prayer and study
session following his motto of “no rules,
no limits, no holding back.” Abook by the
same name is available.
Howard Greenberg Gallery is located at
41 East 57th Street, Suite 1406, in New
York City. Hours are Tuesday through
Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more
information, call (212) 334-0010 or visit
).
Chandler Davis, Wave IV, “Wave Series,”
acrylic on canvas, signed on back,
36" x 48".
—Through May 2
—Old Lyme, Connecticut
The Cooley Gallery announces Surf’s
Up!, an exhibition of paintings from
Chandler Davis’s new “Wave Series.”
Marine and ocean artworks by other art-
ists are also on view. Davis’s work often
focuses on the sea. He is also a sculp-
tor, and some of his large-scale mollusk
works can be seen at Studio 80+ Sculp-
ture Grounds in Old Lyme.
The Cooley Gallery is located at 25
Lyme Street in Old Lyme. Hours are
Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. For more information, call (860)
—Through May 10
—New York City
The Metropolitan Museum of Art pres-
ents The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth
and Sky. The exhibition brings together
more than 150 Plains Indian artworks
from 81 public and private European and
North American collections. The items on
view include paintings, drawings, sculp-
ture, pipes, bags, cradleboards, robes, and
other articles of clothing. A press release
notes that “the evolution of Plains aes-
thetic traditions over four centuries is
traced... [and] these objects reflect pro-
found connections to both the natural
and the spirit worlds—to the forces of
earth and sky.” A fully illustrated catalog
accompanies the exhibit.
The Met is located at 1000 Fifth Ave-
nue in New York City. Hours are Sun-
day through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5:30
p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.
—Through June 14
—Poughkeepsie, New York
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
at Vassar College is hosting Through the
Looking Glass: Daguerreotype Master-
works from the Dawn of Photography. The
exhibit of nearly 150 early photographic
plates including portraits and landscapes
was organized by The Daguerreian Soci-
ety and drawn from the private collection
of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg.
The art center is located at 124 Ray-
mond Avenue in Poughkeepsie. Hours are
Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5
p.m., Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m., and Thursday
evening until 9 p.m. Admission is free.
For more information, call (845) 437-
5237 or visit ).
—Through September 25
—Rockland, Maine
The Farnsworth Art Museum presents
James Calvert Smith (1878-1962), Stop the
Train, circa 1950, watercolor, on display in
the Volusia County Gallery.
—Daytona Beach, Florida
—Through 2015
The Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum
of Art mounts its debut exhibition with
a selection of Florida paintings hung
in five galleries, each with a different
theme: the Florida Weather Gallery, the
Naïve Florida Gallery, the Lost Colony
Gallery, the Florida Communities Gal-
lery, and the Volusia County Gallery.
The Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum
of Art is located at the Museum of Arts
and Sciences at 352 South Nova Road
in Daytona Beach. Hours are Monday
through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to
the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of
Art is $10.95 for adults, $8.95 for seniors
and students, $4.95 for youths six to
17, and free for children five and under
and for members. There are additional
charges for other areas of the museum.
For more information, call (386) 255-
0285 or visit ).
—April 30-October 2
—Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Ed & Mary Scheier: Mid-century
Modern New Hampshire Artists will be
on view at the Portsmouth Historical
Society’s Discover Portsmouth Center.
The exhibition will feature up to 100
examples of paintings, pottery, and tex-
tiles created by the Scheiers, drawn from
a dozen public and private collections.
According to a press release, viewers of
the exhibit will “learn the story of how
New Hampshire was one of the first
states to recognize the economic devel-
opment potential of arts and crafts in the
post-Depression era.”
The Discover Portsmouth Center is
located at 10 Middle Street in Ports-
mouth. Seasonal hours are 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. daily. For more information, call
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), Turkey Pond,
1944, tempera on panel, 32¼" x 40¼". Col-
lection of Farnsworth Art Museum; gift of
Mr. and Mrs. AndrewWyeth in memory of
Walter Anderson, 1955.
—May 21-September 20
—Portland, Maine
The Portland Museum of Art will
host Directors’ Cut: Selections from
the Maine Art Museum Trail. A press
release notes that the exhibit will
show “highlights from Maine’s most-
renowned museums—bringing the best
art Maine has to offer together for the
first time.” The Maine Art Museum
Trail was founded in 1997 to enable
the museums to share their resources.
Works on view are from the Farns-
worth Museum of Art; the Monhegan
Museum of Art and History; the Ogun-
quit Museum of American Art; the art
museums of Bates, Colby, and Bowdoin
Colleges and the University of Maine;
and from the Portland Museum of Art’s
own collection.
The Portland Museum ofArt is located
at 7 Congress Square in Portland. Hours
are Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to
5 p.m., and Friday until 9 p.m. Admis-
sion is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors
and students with ID, $6 for youths 13
to 17, and free for children under 12 and
for members. No admission is charged
Fridays from 5 to 9 p.m. For more infor-
mation, call (207) 775-6148 or visit
).
Exhibitions
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Man’s shirt, 1865, Oglala Lakota (Teton
Sioux) artists, South Dakota, native tanned
leather, pigment, human hair, horsehair,
glass beads, and porcupine quills, 58" x
42½" (147.3 cm x 108 cm). Cody (Wyo-
ming), Buffalo Bill Center of the West, col-
lection of Adolf Spohr, gift of Larry Sheerin.
Photo: Buffalo Bill Center of the West.
James Fitzgerald (1899-1971), Katahdin
South Side, circa 1960, watercolor on paper,
20" x 26". Gift of Robert E. Kulp, Jr. in
memory of Margaret Barr Kulp, 2014.
to 9 p.m. Recommended admission is
$25 for adults, $17 for seniors, $12 for
students, and free for children under 12
and for members. For more information,
an exhibition of its recent acquisitions.
Works that are new to the museum’s col-
lection were created by artists including
Rockwell Kent, Robert Indiana, Lois
Dodd, Andy Warhol, and Marguerite and
William Zorach.
The Farnsworth is located at 16
Museum Street in Rockland. Spring
hours (through May 31) are Tuesday
through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sum-
mer hours are daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
and until 8 p.m. on Wednesday and on
the first Friday of the month. Admission
is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and stu-
dents, and free to children 16 and under,
members, and residents of Rockland. For
more information, call (207) 596-6457
or visit ).
Stoneware vessel with molded low-relief
design, 1996. University of New Hamp-
shire Special Collections.
Clam digger (1845-50), half-plate
daguerreotype.