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Art&Style 49 Maine Sculptors:

A Catalog A guide to sculpture in Maine.

Curated by Anne Zill, Andres Verzosa & Bruce Brown

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Pushing the boundaries of creativity by any medium necessary.

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133 Fiction “Long Shot”

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A Portrait of Marsden Hartley Examining a Maine icon from a new cultural and critical perspective.

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111 everyday Sommelier “A Night at the Museum”

By Ralph Hersom 116 dining Guide 117 restaurant review

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119 House of the Month “Cover Story” The Monhegan house seen for decades on newsstands.

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Food&Drink 101 Gallery Gourmet

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Sketching a pilgrimage.

Visual Diary by Jennifer Lawson

Fine dining and fine art go hand in hand.

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39 Portland After dark: “Between the Acts” To stalk the magic of First Friday Art Walk, chase the forces bubbling around the galleries and happenings.

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None of which is as poignant and scary as a real Maine ghost trap on a windswept beach. When they roll up the sidewalks in Maine in the winter, a low-tide walk by the shore takes you close to mortality along a path of seaweed and brutal reality. A real ghost trap is a lobster trap that’s had its lobster buoy and rope ripped from it by storms or rope rot.

Or other forces, seen or unseen. Lobster wars or a mutiny of captive crustaceans on a ghost ship? That’s a different ghost story. Stripped of their identifying buoys, the ghost traps survive in their disconnected universe, working independently of the humans who were once convinced they owned them.

USA Today has weighed in on this in an Associated Press story: “Beneath the cold ocean waters off the coast of Maine lie hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of old wire lobster ‘ghost traps.’ Lost over the years to storms, boats–even the knives of fishermen who’ve cut them from their buoys to settle scores–many of the traps continue catching lobsters. ‘It would be very interesting if we could drain the ocean and look at what’s down there,’ says Holly Bamford, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations Marine Debris Program. ‘We might be surprised.’ The extent of Maine’s ghost trap problem isn’t fully known, but lobstermen say they sometimes recover traps that contain skinny lobsters–ones that appear to [be wasting]–or shells from lobsters that have starved and withered away to nothing or been eaten by other lobsters.” Lobsters are, famously, cannibals.

Not a pretty end game. But then, sometimes the depraved and the beautiful walk hand-inhand on a romantic beach.

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The Gentleman from Indiana “Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.” Many of Booth Tarkington’s happy moments can still be found in Kennebunkport today. The novelist’s “Seawood” mansion still stands on South Maine Street (although it’s since been split into condos), while his former studio “The Floats” has been transformed into the Kennebunkport Maritime Museum.

The photo above shows Tarkington’s winter palace in Indianapolis, somethiing Mainers rarely see.

Float Rope Mats hit the market when floating polypropylene and polyethylene ropes were banned from fixed-line fishing (lobstering) in 2009 because of their entanglement danger to right whales.

“Lobstermen have been doing it for years.

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Craft spirit creators Stroudwater Distillery recently moved into a 5,000-squarefoot space in the brick North building at thompson’s point, completing a hip trifecta of high-end watering holes in this former industrial site. stroudwater will create small batch bottles of bourbon, rye, vodka, and gin, available to sample and buy in their minimalist tasting space. Owner Jeff Johnson is sure he is in good company, “Look at Bissell Brothers and Cellardoor Winery next door. It’s gonna be cool down here.”

Now you can knock back a glass of pinot noir, a flight of beers, and a bourbon on the rocks without having to walk more than 100 yards. stroudwaterdistillery.com

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Clara Neptune Keezer, a legendary figure in Passamaquoddy basket weaving, died in August at age 85.

She won a National Heritage Fellowship in 2002 for her significant efforts to develop and preserve her ancient craft by sharing her skill with younger generations.

Another Pizza My Heart Here’s a slice of life. According to the Department of Agriculture, on any given day at least 13 percent of Americans are eating pizza, which means one in eight of us will indulge today. With this in mind, the opening of the new super-sized Otto on 250 Read Street and the re-imagining of Borealis Bakery Café at 182 Ocean Avenue as a Neapolitan pizza joint by Central Provisions’ Chris Gould and Scales’ Mike Smith will be welcome news to residents living beyond the peninsula. september 2016 17

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Clinton Lions Fair, 1450 Bangor Rd. Rides, food, harness racing, and family fun, Sept. 8-11. clintonlionsfair.com

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Common Ground Country Fair, Unity. Celebrate the organic and rural version of the good life and learn new things about farming. Agricultural demonstrations–milking, blacksmithing, composting, stoneworking, orchardgrowing, plus produce and crafts vendors, food, music, and camping, Sept.

23-25.mofga.org/thefair Cumberland County Fair, Cumberland Fairgrounds.

Exhibition halls, midway, livestock, animal pulls, demolition derby, barbe-

cue, and pumpkin and squash weigh-offs Sept. 25-Oct. 1. cumberlandfair.com Eliot Festival Days, various locations around town. 5K road race, crafts, food booths, pancake breakfast, parade, and fireworks, Sept. 23-24. eliot5kandfestival.com Farmington Fair. Livestock, midway, harness racing, and animal pulling, Sept. 18-24. farmingtonfairmaine.com Fryeburg Fair, “Maine’s Blue Ribbon Classic” since 1851. Livestock, pig scramble, midway rides, sheepdog trials, a woodsmen’s field day of timberrelated competitions,

Maine Fall Guide live music, magicians, storytelling, and puppets, Oct. 2-9. 935-3268. fryeburgfair.com Oxford County Fair, 68 Pottle Road. Livestock shows, horse pulling, pig scramble, petting zoo, ATV and lawnmower pulls, traditional farming and crafting demonstrations, live music, and food, Sept. 14-17. oxfordcountyfair.com

Food Festivals Acadia’s Oktoberfest & Food Festival, 20 Main

Fly through the foliage of New England, Alpine Adventures in Lincoln, New Hampshire.

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Wine and cheese tasting, Maine-based brewfest, locally sourced food, and crafts, Oct. 7-8. acadiaoktoberfest.com Apple Pumpkin Festival, Livermore Falls. Food, music, kids’ activities, crafts, Sept. 24. 897-6755. jay-livermore-lf.org/apfest Belgian Beer Fest, 58 Fore St., Portland. Two sessions of authentic Belgian beer samplings, Sept. 17. beeradvocate.com/Belgian

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Bethel Harvestfest & Chowdah Cookoff, Bethel Village common.

Annual tradition with crafts, a farmer’s market, chowder, and apple pie, Sept. 17. 824-2282 bethelharvestfest.com Cornish Apple Festival, 17 Maple St., Cornish. 5k road race, craft and produce vendors, apple-pie baking competition, food booths with apple and non-apple offerings, and live entertainment, Sept.

24. cornish-maine.org Damariscotta Pumpkinfest and Regatta.

Pinkham’s Plantation, 431 Biscay Rd. Pumpkinboat regatta and derby, pumpkin catapulting, giant pumpkin art, pumpkin-pie eating, and parade, Oct. 1-7. damariscottapumpkinfest.com

Harvestfest, Short Sands Beach, York. Traditional fall harvest food, kids activities, crafts, and music, Oct. 15. maineoktoberfest.org Harvest on the Harbor, Ocean Gateway, Portland.

8th annual food and wine festival (21+ only). Chef demonstrations, lobster chef competition, Brews & Blues BBQ, tasting events, Oct. 20-23. harvestontheharbor.com Maine Harvest Festival, Cross Insurance Center, Bangor. A delicious celebration of Maine’s small farms and their bounty, Nov. 19-20. maineharvestfestival.com

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Camden International Film Festival, 10th anniversary, September 15 - 18.

Maine Lakes Brew Fest, Point Sebago Beach. the area’s largest annual sampling event and oktoberfest features maine-made beers, micro-brews, and wine; with food, live music, and the Point Sebago Craft Fair, Sept.

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Portland Beer Week, Portland. Join the maine craft beer industry and local businesses as we partake in various events taking place in Portland, maine and surrounding areas. See website for details. nov. 6-12. portlandbeerweek.org Swine and Stein Oktoberfest, Downtown Water St, gardiner. the 6th annual Swine & Stein octoberfest is a trifecta of beer, food,

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Camden International Film Festival. the 10th anniversary of the festival created to highlight emerging documentary filmmakers. screening more than 70 films, most followed by Q&A sessions

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Acadia’s Oktoberfest & Food Festival

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Laudholm Nature Crafts Festival, Wells. this event brings more than 100 artisans, selected by jury, to exhibit their wares for thousands of browsers. music, food, and fun round out the 2-day festival, sept. 10-11 wellsreserve.org

Maine Lakes Brew Fest, point sebago beach. sept. 24.

OutdOOrs Festivals 10th Annual 12 Hours of Bradbury Mountain, bradbury mountain state park, pownal. All-day

Swine and Stein Oktoberfest, Downtown Water st, Gardiner. Oct. 8.

Belgian Beer Fest, 58 Fore st., portland. sept. 17.

Portland Beer Week, portland. Nov. 6-12.

Craft Beer Cellar, 111 Commercial st., portland. Craft beer tastings every Fri. Maine Beer and Beverage, public market House, Congress st., portland. tastings every thurs., 4:30-6:30.

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Maine Fall Guide mountain biking extravaganza with events of all ages, Sept. 17. Bradburytwelve.com Acadia Night Sky Festival, Bar harbor. night hikes, a paddle in a bioluminescent bay, science presentations, and themed movies in this celebration of the best stargazing site on the eastern seaboard, Sept. 22-25. acadianightskyfestival.com Eastport Pirate Festival, downtown eastport. Pirate parade, reenactments, races, cutlass fights, and a costumed pet show, Sept. 9-11. eastportpiratefestival.com Fall Festival Weekend, Sunday River Resort. the unofficial kickoff to Sunday River’s winter season, the festival includes live music, a beer garden, wine tasting, arts & crafts, scenic lift and wagon rides, children’s games and activities, and the famous north american Wife Carrying Championship, oct. 8-9. (800) 543-2754 sundayriver.com International Seaplane Fly-In, greenville. on the shores of moosehead lake, enjoy fly-bys by rare aircraft, a craft fair, a steak-andHoodie Ad.indd 1

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“Clean Up Cancer” For well over a year now many of us have seen the pink van of Eastern Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning driving around York and Cumberland counties, and we may have asked what’s it all about. To clear up this question I spent some time with Diane Gadbois at her home and asked her some very personal questions that I am sure were difficult to answer. You see, George and Diane Gadbois are private people who give more than their share back to the community, and the last thing they want is to be noticed for their generosity. They started Eastern Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning 40 years ago on a wish and a prayer and now have the largest family-run carpet cleaning and water damage restoration company in the area.

Back to the pink van! If you notice on the rear side panels are the words Susan G. Komen for the Cure. This national foundation has brought forth women’s cancer awareness, promoted extensive cancer research, and although not exclusive to the cause, is nationally recognized by the color pink. The cost to place this name on the van will not be discussed here, but let us say the

yearly donation is significant and the proceeds all go to the cure for women’s cancer.

Diane was introduced to breast cancer early in life when her mother had a radical mastectomy. She remembers her mother’s doctor telling her sister and her “one of you will have cancer.”

Not a pleasant thought at the time, but it stuck with Diane and saved her life. Twice, after the normal tests and screenings for cancer, Diane received a clean bill of health and relatively soon after, while doing a self-examination, found a lump. Not once but twice! Fortunately they were found in time, and Diane is doing fine, but she wants to get the message out that as important as it is to get regular screenings, it is equally as important to be your own advocate and make double sure with a self-examination.

So when you see the pink Eastern van go by, remember it’s just Diane reminding you even if you have had the tests be your own advocate and make a regular self-examination part of your life because it could save it. It did for Diane!

“A lake…is the earth’s eye.”

Henry David Thoreau

Maine Fall Guide lobster cookout, lake cruise, flying, raffles, and contests, Sept.8-11. 695-2928 seaplanefly-in.org Lobsterman Triathlon, Freeport. one of the top triathlons in the country, this olympic-distance “destination race” includes a post-race lobster bake, Sept. 17. lobstermantri.com Maine Huts and Trails First Annual Sugarloaf Mountain bike festival, Sugarloaf. explore the fall foliage by bike on 50 miles of trails. at night, enjoy outdoor concerts and meals, Sept. 123-25. mainehuts.org North American Wife-Carrying Championships, Sunday River, 97 Summit Rd., Bethel.

Committed couples face uneven ground, obstacles, and water hazards at this lighthearted annual challenge, oct. 8. Sundayriver.com Punkinfiddle Family Festival and National Estuaries Day Celebration, 342 laudholm

See it aboard the Katahdin.

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Pumpkin-boat regatta, Damariscotta Pumpkin Fest, October 1-7.

farm rd., Wells. Live music, traditional arts demonstrations, sheepdogs, and horses gather to celebrate the beauty and value of maine’s estuaries, and to foster environmental stewardship, sept. 24. wellsreserve.org RiverJam Festival, biddeford & saco. family friendly afternoon activities including kayak rides on the saco river, bounce houses, facepainting, and an artisan market. during the evening there will be live music and fireworks. sept. 17. riverjamfest.com

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Sunday River Open Dart Tournament, sunday river resort. Zip-line tours, hiking, mountain biking, and disc golf, in addition to dart matches with a $10k grand prize, sept.

16-18. sundayriver.com Tour de Farms, Gardiner road, Wiscasset.

Celebrating the land, farms, and people that provide local produce to the region. Choose your tour and wind through the scenic farmland of midcoast maine. the ride begins and ends at the morris farm. see website for details. saturday, sept. 10th, morrisfarm.org Trails End Festival, downtown millinocket. parade, learn-to-paddle excursions, chili cook-off, and musical performances by emily Guillow and portland’s mallet brothers, sept.

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Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 at 7:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 26 at 2:30 pm Jeffrey Reed, conductor

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ExpEriEncE 7176 lakewoodtheater.org Maine State Ballet Theater, 348 U.s. rte. 1, falmouth. the Little Mermaid, oct. 8-15. 781-7672 mainestateballet.org Merrill Auditorium, 20 myrtle st., portland. Brown Bear, Brown Bear and Other treasured Stories by eric carle, oct. 15; balletX, oct. 20; rent – 20th anniversary tour, nov. 5.

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, sept. 7-oct.

1; Million Dollar Quartet, oct. 5-nov. 6. 656-5511 ogunquitplayhouse.org

portland museum of art debuts a new installation by TIM ROLLINS and K.O.S. a Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2009, 42” x 48”, watercolor, acrylic, and india ink collage, over an offset music score set on canvas, september 16.

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Belfast Maskers, at locations around belfast; see website. noel coward’s Blithe Spirit, oct; annual Holiday show, december.

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Celebration Barn Theater, 190 stock farm rd., south paris. mike miclon’s the early evening show, first saturday in sept. & oct. 743-8452 celebrationbarn.com

Freeport Community Players, Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Holbrook st., freeport. the Compleat WrKS of WLLM ShKSPr (abridged), sept. tba; Moonlight Masquerade, oct. tba. 865-2220 fcponline.org Heartwood Regional Theater Company, lincoln academy, newcastle.

see website for details. heartwoodtheater.org Gaslight Theater, winthrop st., Hallowell. the Man Who Came to Dinner, nov. tba. 626-3698 gaslighttheater.org Lakewood Theater, 75 theater rd., madison. Of Mice and Men, sept. 1-10; Confessions of a Dirty Blonde, sept. 15-24. 474-

Penobscot Theatre Company, bangor opera House, 131 main st. Calendar Girls, sept.

8-25; Murder for two, oct.

20-nov. 6. 942-3333 penobscottheatre.org Portland Stage Company, 25 forest ave. Later Life by a.r. Gurney, sept.

27 – oct. 23; sotto Voce by nilo cruz, nov. 1-20. 7740645 portlandstage.org Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 richville rd., standish. Clue, the Musical, sept. 16-oct. 2. 6423743 schoolhousearts.org Theater at Monmouth, 796 main st.,

monmouth. Boeing, Boeing, sept. 15-25.

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GaLLerieS

Art Gallery at UNE, 716 stevens ave. annual sculpture Garden invitational, through oct. 31; Vision and Verse, through oct. 2; recent acquisitions to the Une photography collection, through oct. 2. 221-4499 une.edu/artgallery Bates College Museum of Art, olin arts center, 75 russell st., lewiston. Jay bolotin: the book of only enoch, through oct. 8; mythology, sept. 9 – dec.

23; rona pondick and robert feintuch: Heads, Hands, feet; sleeping, Holding, dreaming, dying, oct. 27 – mar. 23. 7866158 bates.edu/museum Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1 bath rd., brunswick. renaissance rivalries: painting and its sister arts, through nov.

27; this is a portrait if i say so: identity in american art, 1912 to today, through oct. 23; robert frank: sideways, sept. 15 – Jan. 29; nineteenth century art and artifacts, sept.

22 – Jun. 4. 725-3275 bowdoin.edu/art-museum

Children’s Museum & Theater of Maine, 142 free st., portland. stage stories, daily. fall shows tba, see website. 8281234 kitetails.org City Theater in Biddeford, 205 main st. Over the river and through the Woods, oct. 14-23; the Christmas Survival Guide, dec. 2-18. 282-0849 citytheater.org Cold Comfort Theater, see website for belfast locations. fall show tba, see website.

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ExpEriEncE Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland. lauren henkin: Second nature, mainebased photographer lauren henkin looks through a lens to question our perception of nature through oct 28; Dom Voisine: X/V, featuring paintings, prints and drawings from the past 15 years. Sept. 2 - oct. 28.

701-5005 cmcanow.org College of the Atlantic, Bar harbor. Where the mountains meet the Sea, in celebration of acadia national Park’s 100th anniversary, signature work by twenty sculptors from new england will be sited in the historic gardens of the College of the atlantic, through oct. 29 junelacombesculpture.com Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 mayflower hill Dr., Waterville. a Usable Past: american Folk art at the Colby College museum of art, through Jan. 8; teresa margolles: We have a Common thread, Sept. 13 – Dec. 11. 8595600 colby.edu Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 museum St., Rockland. about Buildings, through 2017; american treasures from the Farnsworth, through 2017; n.C Wyeth: Painter, through December; andrew Wyeth: Dory, through november; From the Smallest leaf: Photographs by Koichiro Kurita, through Sept. 11.

596-6457 farnsworthmuseum.org First Friday Art Walk, Downtown Portland. Visit local galleries, studios, and museums, Sept. 2, oct. 7, nov. 4. artwalkmaine.org Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland. Designing acadia: maine’s national Park experience, through Jan. 14, 2017; Remembering the great Portland Fire of 1866, through oct. 774-1822 mainehistory.org Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St., Portland. Camille Davidson, through Sept. 5; see website for more listings. mainejewishmuseum.org Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq., Portland. Skowhegan at Seventy, through oct. 10; o’Keeffe, Stettheimer, torr, zorach, through Sept. 18; Unbound: tim Rollins and K.o.S., Sept. 16 – Dec. 31; the art Books of henri matisse, oct. 6 – Dec. 31; of Whales in Paint, oct. 15 – Dec.31. 775-6148 portlandmuseum.org Portland Science Center, 68 Commercial Street, maine Wharf, Portland. titanic: the artifact exhibition, through october. portlandsciencecenter.com UMVA Gallery at CTN, 516 Congress Street, Portland. See website for upcoming exhibitions. 671-7237 umvaonline.org

Music

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Cross Insurance Arena, 1 Center St., Portland. Kiss: Freedom to Rock tour, Sept.

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Wells Fashion Ou Dogfish Bar & Grille, 128 Free St., Portland. trivia night, every tues.; acoustic open mic, every Wed.; Jazz happy hour with travis James humphrey and guests, every Fri.; live music Wed.-Sat. every week. 772-5483 thedogfishcompany.com

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Empire, 575 Congress St., Portland. the Couch open mic, comedy and game nights, every Sun.; triviyeah!, every mon.; Rhythm & tues, every tues.; Clash of the titans, every Wed.; see website for more listings. 747-5063 portlandempire.com

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Jonathan’s, 92 Bournes ln., ogunquit. lori mcKenna, Sept. 10; an evening with the Smithereens, Sept. 17; tom Papa, Sept. 24; tommy Cash, Sept. 29; Jim Kweskin and geoff muldaur, oct. 2; leon Russell, oct. 6; martin Barre, oct. 7; tom Rush, oct. 16; an evening with george Winston, oct. 30. 6464526 jonathansogunquit.com Merrill Auditorium, 20 myrtle St., Portland.

Krazy ‘bout Kotzschmar – thomas heywood, Sept. 20; Classic Rock – Portland Symphony orchestra, Sept. 24, 25; an evening with lyle lovett and Robert earl Keen, Sept. 30; an evening with Joan Baez, oct. 4; Red Baraat, oct. 6; Beethoven’s Fourth, oct. 9, 10; Cirque mechanics, oct. 27; halloween Silent Film – Dr. Jekyll & mr. hyde, oct. 29.

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Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St., Portland. the english Beat, Sept. 7; Justin townes earle, Sept. 11; Particle & Kung Fu, Sept. 13; marchFourth!, Sept. 15; Judge John hodgman, Sept.

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Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd., Brownfield. Stone mountain twilight music hour, Sept. 22; Ruthie Foster, Sept. 23; Sonny landreth & Cindy Cashdollar, Sept. 30; aaron neville Up Close and Personal, oct. 7; Stone mountain harvest Wine Dinner, oct. 9.

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State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland. hippie Sabotage, Sept. 15; old Crow medicine Show, Sept. 16; ziggy marley, Sept. 17; make america Rock again, Sept. 18; the Kills, Sept. 20; ChVRCheS, Sept. 21; greensky Bluegrass, Sept. 22; For King & Country, Sept.

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Thompson’s Point, Portland. leon Bridges, Sept. 9. statetheatreportland.com/ thompsons-point

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Browne Trading Company, 262 Commercial St., Portland. Wine tastings, one or more Sat. every month, 1-5 p.m.. 775-7560 brownetrading.com

Flanagan Farm, 668 narragansett trail (Rt. 202), Buxton. Benefit dinners prepared by local chefs to benefit maine Farmland trust.

2016 is “Word Play: the Color Series.” orange: ilma lopez and Damian Sansonetti of Piccolo, andrew taylor and michael Wiley of hugo’s, oct. 2; Fabulous Femmes to benefit the Barbara Bush Children’s hospital: Krista Kern Desjarlais of Bresca & the honey Bee

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and the purple House, briana Holt of tandem Coffee + bakery, melissa Kelly of primo, Ilma Lopez of piccolo, Kim rogers of Hugo’s and Cara Stadler of bao bao Dumpling House and tao Yuan, Oct. 30; White: Larry matthews of back bay Grill and Jason Williams of the Well at Jordan’s Farm, Dec. 10. flanaganstable.com Maine Beer and Beverage, public market House, Congress St., portland. tastings every thurs., 4:30-6:30. Mainebeerandbeverage.com

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U.S. Launch, Colin W. Sargent’s The Boston Castrato (Barbican Press, London), Longfellow Books, monument Square, portland. bookrelease party & reading, Sept. 15, 7 p.m.; Boston Public Library, reading and book signing, Sept. 17. (617) 536-8241, www.bpl. org/branches/southend.php; Graves Memorial Library, Kennebunkport, book discussion and signing, Sept. 20; New England Historic Genealogical Society, boston. reading & book discussion, Sept. 21, americanancestors. org; Harvard Coop, Cambridge, mA. reading and book signing, Sept. 22; York Public Library, York. reading and signing, Sept. 27.

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Portland Public Library, 5 monument Square, portland, brown bag Lecture Series in rines Auditorium. Suja A. thomas, “the missing American Jury” Sept. 21; Douglas rooks, “Statesman: George mitchell and the Art of the possible” Oct. 5; ron Chase, “the Great mars Hill bank robbery” Oct. 5. 871-1700 portlandlibrary.com –Compiled by Jeanee Dudley Red Baraat at Port City Music Hall, October8 p.m. In collaboration with SPACE Gallery. $25 General Admission, $15 student deal.

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An exhibition at Museum L-A will celebrate the region’s textile history with “Covering the Nation: the Art of the bates bedspread.” the bates mill began producing the covers in the 1850s and thrived until the early 20th century. their best-selling design was based on a wedding gift given by George Washington to his wife martha. An advert from 1939 proclaims the bedspread “romantic enough to wear.” Unfortunately, the shift of the textile industry overseas sent the mill into slow decline toward the end of the century. In 2001 bates mill filed for bankruptcy and over 100 workers lost their jobs.

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This summer, War Paint the musical is drawing crowds as it portrays the long-standing feud between beauty industry titans Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein, played by stage icons Patty Lupone and Christine Ebersole.

The rivalry of the two make-up magnates was hot gossip in the early 20th century. Thankfully, Ms. Arden had a tranquil retreat from which to escape the media storm–Maine. Her Maine Chance Spa, founded in 1934 in the Belgrade Lakes region, spearheading the concept of the destination spa. Rumored guests included Ava Gardner and Judy Garland. The Spa estate was eventually sold to pay off tax bills after Arden’s death in 1966.

Artists and couple Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch will bring their visceral, surreal exhibition “Heads, Hands, Feet; Sleeping, Holding, Dreaming, Dying” to Bates College Museum of Art in 2017. Pondick’s human/animal splice sculptures are inspired by an image of the Vacanti “earmouse”–with the tissueengineered “human ear” of cow cartilage grown on its back.

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o need to despair the passing of summer, September is a time to rejoice in the bearable temperatures, the russet and gold-tinged landscapes, and the parking spaces and bar stools suddenly freed up by the mass exodus of all the tourists. First Friday Artwalk may be at its peak in summertime in terms of sheer numbers, but it’s fall when the monthly extravaganza truly comes into its own. That back-toschool mentality abounds creativity among

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the community, so plan your Friday night out around art and aperitifs.

Before you dive into the action on Congress Street, you’re going to need some liquid fortification. Working under the theory that you should start and end your night with the best drinks, we head to Rhum (pictured following page bottom left, 4 Free Street, 536-1774, rhumportland. com). Style is cyclical, and tiki bars appear to be back in. Rhum adopts the theme with

a hearty dose of tongue-in-cheek: think cocktail umbrellas, leis, and even a banana made to look like a dolphin garnishing your rum drink. Thankfully, it’s saved from going full Hawaiian shirt-style by the subterranean, nightclubby feel of the space.

We take a seat at the expansive rectangular bar beneath the palm grass thatch and order a couple of Jungle Birds ($12), a potent mix of Black Strap rum, Campari, pineapple, and cherry bitters that taste like the last September 2016 39

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sips of summer. ontinuing with the kitsch theme, we round the corner to Pinecone & Chickadee, part gallery, part gift shop (pictured bottom right, 6 Free Street, 772-9280, pineconeandchicka dee.com). You probably didn’t even realize you needed a DIY Terrarium kit with ornate brass plant mister until you came in here.

Owners Noah DeFilippis and Amy Teh expanded the space back in February to showcase monthly exhibitions by local artists and illustrators. The atmosphere is akin to a lively house party hosted in your quirky friend’s living room, complete with beer, wine, and finger food.

“We’re a store, so we approach things differently. You can buy the art straight off the walls,” says curator Kris Johnson. The October Artwalk will open with “The Ghoul School 2,” an homage to 1980s horror flicks and teen sub-culture by illustrator Ryan Lamunyon. We grab a can of Bissell Brothers from the ice box and gather around the eye-catching exhibition wall at the rear of the building. This is a place where art feels fun, local, and accessible.

Into the actIon Moving into the heart of the festivities, Monument Square teems with performers and artists. It’s almost impossible to weave through the throngs without becoming distracted by an elaborately dressed belly dancer or steel drum troupe. Unable to resist the pull of the window dressing, we drop into the Maine College of Art (522 Congress Street, 775-3052, meca.edu). MECA periodically hosts exhibitions by students and faculty members, as well as showing visiting artists. The ICA Gallery on the ground floor will open in October with a new exhibition entitled “In this Realm,” featuring paintings by five Maine artists exploring the themes of gender and identity. Alas, no refreshments of the alcoholic variety here, which is little surprising given the number of thirsty underage art students milling about. Luckily, immediately next door, SPACE Gallery (538 Congress Street, 828-5600, space538.org) boasts a bar. The drink selection may not be extensive (we keep it classy and grab a couple of Miller High Lifes), but the eclectic roster of music, art, and film nights that the community-run

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gallery hosts nightly certainly make up for it.

“October Art Walk will open with the inaugural New England Art Book Fair,” says Event Programmer Adam Stockman. “It’s something SPACE has wanted to do for a long time.” More than 45 vendors will pack out the small space to sell everything from zines to art tomes, the perfect draw for collectors or those who simply want to decorate their coffee table.

After crawling our way up the main drag–filled with so many artisan vendors it looks like Etsy exploded onto Congress Street–we find ourselves in need of refreshments. Taco Escobar (548 Congress, 5419097, tacoescobarr.com) is packed shoulder to shoulder with a young and buzzing crowd of locals and visitors alike, jostling for space under the strings of multicolored lights and

pulsing pop music. Once there, we order the delicious Toasted Coconut Margarita ($9) along with some Chipotle Sweet Potato Taquitos ($7) to balance the heedless mixing of drinks. he saying goes, ‘All roads lead to Rome.’ In the same way, all art walks lead to the Portland Museum of Art (7 Congress Square, 775-6148, portlandmuseum.org). Free to the public from 4 p.m.-8 p.m. every Friday evening, the expansive gallery has embraced the fall school-days feeling with not one, but three exhibitions based around books and literature. The star show of the October Art Walk will feature a collection of books and illustrations by pioneering French artist Henri Matisse, including copies and prints of the artist’s iconic 1947 book, Jazz. While there,

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Fabulous you can’t fail to miss the 13- x 34-foot canvas by artist Tim Rollins and the Kids of Survival charity, which will adorn the wall of the Selma Black Great Hall. Entitled A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the installation is inspired by the roguish Puck of Shakespeare’s riotous comedy. Head downstairs to the PMA Workshop for an interactive art experience. Channel your inner Rockwell Kent by illustrating your own interpretation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. A speciality cocktail from Aurora Provisions in the PMA café is sure to fuel your creativity.

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LOngfeLLOw bOund he PMA can feel like the last stop in the artwalk path, with High Street acting as a natural boundary to the action. However, there’s more to be explored if you wend your way up towards Longfellow Square. If you’re footsore from traversing the many corridors and corners of the PMA, the diminutive but inviting She Bear Gallery (pictured opposite page top left, 650 Congress Street, 239-2088, shebeargallery.com) is a welcome alternative. “We’re off the beaten path a bit,” says owner Jenny Smick, who opened She Bear in 2013 to showcase the charming woodblock prints by her late mother, Holly Mead. She Bear will also be showing a visiting exhibition of unusual acrylic narrative paintings by Massachusetts artist Steve NegrÓn, opening on the night of the October Artwalk. “It’s not your typical Maine art in here,” says Smick.

“We don’t feature seascapes and lighthouses. I prefer things a little more…eclectic.”

The same can be said of Nathaniel Meiklejohn, owner the Bearded Lady’s Jewelbox (pictured opposite page top right, 644 Congress Street, 747-5384, thebeardedladysjewelbox.com). Hard to find but rewarding to discover, the bar certainly feels like the inside of an antique jewelry case, with mismatched antique glassware, tiny bouquets of wildflowers, and a whimsical mural of the eponymous bearded ladies dominating the wall to the right of the curving pine bar. Tucked away upstairs in the mezzanine, an Aladdin’s Cave of antique furniture and potted plants, we sample the O.D.B. cocktail–rye whiskey, dry vermouth, Campari, and fresh grapefruit juice.

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arsden Hartley (1877-1943) is seen by many as America’s greatest artist to have participated in the awakening dawn of modernist painting. Hartley had solo exhibitions at

Alfred Steiglitz’s pioneering New York gallery and was introduced by Steiglitz to Gertrude Stein’s circle in Paris, including Picasso and the others who have headlined art history. Hartley was featured in the all-im-

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and Wassily Kandinsky, the great painterly spiritualist and pioneer of abstraction.

More famously, during his time in Berlin, Hartley met Prussian lieutenant Karl von Freyburg, who became the love of his life.

Von Freyburg was the cousin of Hartley’s friend Arnold Ronnebeck, and he was the subject of Hartley’s best-known paintings– the Portrait of a German Officer series–after von Freyburg was killed in battle in October 1914. These paintings feature bold and bright presentations not of the man but his regalia–his associated symbols and markers of military pageantry. early years Born in Lewiston as Edmund Hartley (he later took his mother’s maiden name, Marsden), the painter had a tough and lonely life as a young man in Maine. The youngest of nine children to immigrant parents, his mother died when he was eight years old.

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this is a 1916 symbolic portrait of gertrude stein, the american expat whose salons at 27 rue de Fleurus were the intellectual soul of the parisian modernist art scene frequented by the likes of picasso and matisse. hartley was the first american painter stein encouraged, and she featured a word portrait of hartley in her play IIIIIIIIII. hartley’s placement of “moi”– me, or i–is witty: it can be seen as a label of stein–i–or as hartley’s marker at the table across from his supporter. this playful and witty deployment of a vast range of symbols and their possibilities reveals hartley’s sophisticated understanding of late (synthetic) cubism.

The Ice Hole (pictured opening page), 1908, oil on canvas, 34” x 34”, New Orleans Museum of Art.

in 1908, hartley lived at an old farm near lovell, maine, where he painted series of the mountains and winter landscapes including The Ice Hole. it is a transformational image: men had mined the lake for ice and so created a hole in the frozen landscape for fishing. the negative form of the cut-ice shape is the keystone to hartley’s fascinated meditation on the literal and metaphorical opening of the hole between human culture and the hidden mysteries of nature’s landscape.

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One Portrait of One Woman (pictured left), 1916, oil on composition board, 30” × 25”, University of Minneapolis

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At age 14, he was left behind for a year to work in a factory when his family moved to Ohio. But Hartley persevered. He enrolled at the Cleveland School of Art. And at 22, he moved to New York to study under William Merritt Chase. There, he attended the New York School of Art and then the National Academy of Design.

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rom 1912 to 1916, Hartley lived and worked in Europe, returning because of WWI. He went back to Europe from 1921 to 1930. In 1937, after time spent working in New York, New Mexico, California, and Canada, Hartley came home to become, as he proclaimed, “the painter of Maine.” He painted mostly around Lovell, Corea, and Ellsworth, where he died in 1943.

A particularly vivid chapter of Hartley’s life was the time he spent in Nova Scotia in 1935 and 1936 living with the Masons, a fishing family of East Point Island. Hartley, an able poet and writer, penned Cleophas and His Own: A North Atlantic Tragedy, a story based the Masons. But it is the paintings from and about this period that have become ever more poignant and piercing.

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Seen and unSeen There is no question Hartley’s homosexuality played a role in his art. The extent to which it was closeted, coded, or crucial, however, is less clear. For example, it is easy to project erotic content in Hartley’s depictions of the boxer–the Acadian Light Heavy–who modeled for classes he taught in Bangor. But we need to consider these as depictions associated with a figurative art class, and, more importantly, within the context of Hartley’s notion of beauty. Just because he depicted the Mason boys as beautiful doesn’t mean Hartley, who was in his late 50s when he knew them, was creating homoerotic depictions of them. Two of the Mason family’s boys and their cousin, in fact, drowned, an event that reopened the deep wounds in Hartley’s soul. Not only had he lost the love of his life, but his friend Hart Crane had committed suicide in 1932 by jumping off a ship after he had sustained a horrific beating apparently because of unwelcome advances towards one of the ship’s crew.

Eight Bells Folly: Memorial to Hart Crane (top left, previous page) depicts a sailing ship with “33” on the sails (a reference to Hart’s age when he died) and several references to “eight bells,” which stands for noon, the hour Crane committed suicide. There is a also a large shark in the foreground, an apparent painting reference to John Singleton Copley’s early 1778 masterpiece Watson and the Shark with its notion of terror and the specter of violence moving towards a vulnerable young man. What is missing from the sym-

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n other words, Hartley’s portrait of homosexuality appears as the body invisible: a coded identity, or, rather, identity as code. Moreover, it is this insight about painting that made Hartley the greatest interpreter of Picasso’s and Braque’s late cubism, possibly the first person to fully grasp the implications of synthetic cubism. With his German Officer paintings, we can say Hartley paved the way for Magritte’s iconic 1948 The Treachery of Images in which a depiction of a pipe reads “This is not a pipe.” Of course it’s not a pipe, we now see: It is a depiction of a pipe. It is a picture, not the thing itself–and pictures are simply sets of codes. making of a master Was Hartley’s inverted body (“invert” was a term of the time for homosexual) the body invisible? Instead of the stoic heroic, Hartley showed us the beauty of the young men sacrificed to work and war–recognizing beauty as the necessary backdrop for tragedy. Hartley had admonished Crane for his dangerously unguarded cruising of the streets of New York. Straight hipsters now sometimes brag of their prowess with “gaydar” (that ability to ‘tell’) while missing the point that remaining sufficiently coded and camouflaged was, at times, an issue of life and death. This insight may have been why Hartley was able to fully understand the deepest implications of cubism based on the idea that painterly language is a set of legible codes. In other words, Hartley’s need for the body invisible may have set “the painter of Maine” precisely on the path to becoming America’s greatest modernist painter. n

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Skowhegan is an intensive nine-week program for emerging visual artists that was established in 1946 by artists, for artists. Each year it assembles a gifted and diverse group to create a stimulating and rigorous environment for a concentrated period of artistic creation, interaction and growth. For over 70 years it has attracted the leading artists of the time to central Maine where they live and work together for the summer in the rural landscape—an experience that lasts a lifetime.

Join Skowhegan for a conversation between artist Polly Apfelbaum and art historian Faye Hirsch that is inspired by the discursive environment on campus and the exhibition, Skowhegan at Seventy.

3pm, Saturday, October 1, 2016. The Portland Museum of Art.

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Skowhegan is an intensive nine-week program for emerging visual artists that was established in 1946 by artists, for artists. Each year it assembles a gifted and diverse group to create a stimulating and rigorous environment for a concentrated period of artistic creation, interaction and growth. For over 70 years it has attracted the leading artists of the time to central Maine where they live and work together for the summer in the rural landscape—an experience that lasts a lifetime.

Join Skowhegan for a conversation between artist Polly Apfelbaum and art historian Faye Hirsch that is inspired by the discursive environment on campus and the exhibition, Skowhegan at Seventy.

3pm, Saturday, October 1, 2016. The Portland Museum of Art.

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enowned American abstract expressionist Barnett Newman once sniped, “Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.” However, if only Newman and his wife Annalee could relive their 1936 honeymoon in Ogunquit 80 years later, they’d discover that sculpture is now a marquee event. You need only look to recent shows in Portland for evidence of the shifting focus toward this often-overlooked art form: the TEMPO Arts Project breathing new life into Lincoln Park with the installation of Judith Hoffman’s precariously stacked steel houses; the lively discussion surrounding the Congress Square Park centerpiece; and the recent announcement that Portland Museum of Art is opening its gates to the sculpture garden for full, free public access, thanks to a grant from Idexx founder David Shaw.

“The PMA has long dreamed of making the garden accessible and free of charge to the public,” says assistant curator Andrew Eschelbacher. The cost of making the space ADA accessible had long delayed the process, meaning one could only glimpse Celeste Roberge’s Rising Cairns, or Hearsay, the striking new installation by John Bisbee, from behind the iron fencing that borders High Street.

“Mr. Shaw’s enthusiasm for sculpture and public art vastly accelerated this project into reality,” says Eschelbacher. The sculpture garden will be named “The David E. Shaw and Family Sculpture Park” and will welcome the public through its long-closed gates in Sumseptember 2016 49

ur panel of experts has selected 30 sculptures that shape the way we view sculpture in Maine. This is by no means a final or definitive list, but rather a door opening into a conversation. By introducing the following artists, we seek to provoke a dialogue about sculpture that can carry on long after you’ve turned the page.

As stated last year, we show the work and also the dynamic of price at a given instant, because the works themselves are priceless and will live forever, while the prices give us a mirror on ourselves as an index of desire, and even, fleetingly, of taste.

Prices are from Artnet, Arcadja, AskArt, various galleries, the artists themselves, and other sources. Images are from the artists, auction galleries reporting sales, and online gallery pricing.

Meet the Curators andres Verzosa opened Aucocisco Gallery in Portland in 2000 and ran it for 14 years. He was a founder of Portland’s First Friday Art Walk, and he is a board member of Maine College of Art, the Maine Historical Society, and the Tides Institute in Eastport. He is currently the Interim Executive Director and Curator at Ogunquit Museum of American Art.

Portland native bruce brown is a retired educator who has been collecting art for decades. His own collection has been exhibited at the Portland Museum of Art and Colby College Art Museum. He’s a curator emeritus of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art and presently a cofounder of PhoPa Gallery in Portland.

anne Zill is Art Gallery Director for the University of New England Portland Campus. She holds a Congressional Fellowship from the American Political Science Association in Washington D.C. She has mounted several national exhibitions, two of which went on display at the United Nations Headquarters. Her traveling exhibition, Women on War, has been shown around the country.

Celeste roberge, (1951- ) Biddeford Previous page: Rising Cairn #4, 2000, 58" x 54" x 40", welded galvanized steel and glacial granite cobbles.

Portland museum of art collection.

Dreamhouse (below), 29.5" x 21", a 1983 sculpture in steel, lead, wood, copper, aluminum, and glass, sold in 2012 at Barridoff galleries for $2,160.

Left: Walking Cairn #3, 2015, 105", welded galvanized steel and river rocks. Private collection.

“The nature of her work captures the human form.

Rising Cairns is instantly recognizable.”

–Bruce Brown

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mer 2017. Great news for art enthusiasts or those just looking for a pleasant spot to eat their lunch.

“The exciting thing about sculpture is that it creates both a visual and physical experience. It becomes part of the geography of the city and fundamentally changes the way you interact with your surroundings,” says Eschelbacher. ‘It’s something both public and personal.”

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john bisbee, (1965- ) Brunswick Above: Tessellation Phage, 2015, 10'x 21', hammered and welded 12-inch spikes. pennsylvania College of Art and Design Gallery.

Below: Untitled, sold at Barridoff Galleries for $2,640 in 2013. At only 18" x 17", it’s a fraction of the size of Tessellation Phage.

on the Cover: Infinity Pool, 2016, 57" x 57" x 3" twisted, welded bright common spikes. part of Bisbee’s current exhibition, “the Needle and the milkmaid,” at sApAr Gallery, NY.

“John has a vision to create art using materials no one else is using. His works are his and his alone. They’re totally unique.”

–Bruce Brown

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though the artist referred us to her representatives at claire oliver gallery, because she doesn’t release prices to the public, neither did they. this original 43" x 31" fenterstock ink drawing is being offered from an estate on ebay for $799.

lauren Fensterstock, (1975- ) Portland The Order of Things, 2016, 78" x 240" x 26", shells and mixed media. claire oliver gallery, nyc.

“Her work is confrontational. When you think of Lauren you think of black.

You can see the influence of Louise Nevelson in her sculpture.”

–bruce brown

William Zorach (1886-1966) Georgetown

Right: Lovers, 1958, 11" x 13", marble. sold by barridoff galleries in 2016 for $18,000. sculptures by the artist have eclipsed $365,000 at auction.

“It would be impossible not to mention William Zorach in this list. He and his wife [Marguerite] are widely recognized and collected across the country.

They bridged European influences with pioneering American modernism.”

–andy verzosa

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in sp iration “Borofsky has worked from Ogunquit for many years, but he is truly an international artist. His sculpture, in terms of sheer skill, diversity, and scale, makes him an important artist on the global scene. You can see his sculpture across the world, from Berlin to Japan.”

–Bruce Brown

Jonathan borofsky (1942- ) ogunquit Digital Man, 2016, 24', 12 painted steel figures (each 8 feet tall) bolted together.

Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland. “His commissions range from $1M to $5M.”– Jeremy Rutkiewicz, assistant to the artist.

Inset: Projector Woman, 1990, 70" x 20" x 20", Fiberglass, Celluclay, resin, projector, steel, and wood. Sold at Los Angeles Modern Auctions for $15,000 in 2016.

Jesse salisbury (1972- ) Steuben Tidal Moon, 2006, 14', granite. portland International Jetport. the sculpture was a gift to the city from William and Mary Louise Hamill of yarmouth in 2012. the Portland Press Herald quotes its value at $64,000 plus installation costs.

“I hold Jesse in the highest regard. As the founder of the International Sculpture Symposium, he has contributed so much to the Maine sculpture scene. I just love the shapes, the scale, the enormity of what he does. He thinks and acts in a major way.”

–Bruce Brown

John b. flannagan (1895-1942) Ogunquit

“Flannagan is notably influenced by Robert Laurent and his pioneering direct carving method.

He grapples with his medium and captures the subject from the stone.”

–Andy Verzosa

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AndreAs von Huene (1966- ) Woolwich Owl Rising, 2016, 34" x 53" x 56", Deer Isle pink granite. June LaCombe’s Where Mountains Meet the Sea exhibition, College of the Atlantic. Artist asking price “$32,000.”

“Andreas is both an artist and an engineer.

He’s enormously versatile and talented.”

–Anne Zill

JoHn BonsIgnore (1956- ) portland

Masako (from Toe Dancer series), 2016, 8' x 4' x 2', stainless steel. une sculpture garden. the artist prices these works “between $12,000-$22,000.”

“John has created a whole series of these steel dancing sculptures. They have a certain grace.”

–Anne Zill

Garden Muse I, 2016, 47" x 26" x 2", cast bronze. for sale at the Lupine gallery, monhegan for $3,200.

“Daphne is also a trained architect with a degree from Carnegie Mellon. She and her husband [Daniel Bates] designed their house on Manana Island in Monhegan. It’s filled with her sculptures. They’re inspired by animals, her children, and nature.”

–Anne Zill

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dApHne pulsIfer, (1963- ) Monhegan

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American Folk Art at the Colby College Museum of Art July 9, 2016–January 8, 2017

Colby College Museum of Art Waterville, Maine 207.859.5600 colby.edu/museum Anonymous, American, Painting of a Village Street, Massachusetts, c.1845–1850. Oil on canvas, 28 x 48 in.

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andy rosen (1974- ) Portland UNPACK, 2015, life-sized, synthetic fur, foam, pVc, wood, and metal. on sale at the jim Kempner fine Art in new york city for $35,000.

“I will never forget this installation.

UNPACK attracted people in the thousands to Portland’s waterfront to see and photograph Andy’s lifelike feral dogs.”

–Bruce Brown

“This project is a means for me to explore ideas about wilderness. I explored the idea of domestication as a process of exhausting wildness while attempting to forget its inescapability.”

–Andy rosen

Lin Lisberger, (1951- ) Portland Hotdog with Mustard, 2016, 4"x 10.5" x 5", lilac, cherry, aluminum wire. In artist’s own home. Artist asking price: “$800.”

“Lin brings an intelligence and humor to her work.”

–Anne Zill

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Artist asking price: “$7,500.”

“Stephen comes from a family of distinguished Maine artists,” including father Eliot Porter and uncle Fairfield Porter. “He works with highly polished stainless steel in a way that elegantly reflects its environment.”

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I n s p I rat Ion aaron stephan (1974- ) portland Untitled Studio Arrangement, 2014, life-sized. handmade cement blocks and painted poly-resin brush strokes. Not yet on display. the artist was recently commissioned by portland city council to create a public sculpture in Woodford’s corner (see “sculpture horizon,” page 92) for $20,000. “We were incredibly lucky to get Aaron’s work for this price. he gave portland an amazing deal,” says chair of the portland public Arts committee Lin Lisberger.

“aaron is a highly imaginative and skilled conceptual artist. he has a national reputation.”

–bruce brown

Jordan smIth (1982- ) Pownal

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Infinity Sprout #2, 2015, 10" x 12" x 3", quartzite and marble. uNe sculpture Garden. Artist asking price: “$2,000.”

“Smith claims the most important part of his craft is ‘listening to the stone.’ It imbues his work with a kind of harmony. To me this piece embodies that harmony.”

–Anne Zill

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In sp Ir atIon robert Laurent (1890-1970) Ogunquit

Cabot Lyford (1925- 2016) New Harbor

Mother and Daughter, 1942, 3' x 1.5', indiana limestone. ogunquit museum of american art. sculpture by the artist sells at auction for between $1,000 to $17,000.

Life Force, 1983, 12', black granite. portland regency Hotel courtyard. “sculpture by the artist sells for between $10,000 to $40,000.” –june lacombe, art dealer.

“Laurent was a seminal figure of the Ogunquit School of Art and a pioneering master of the direct carving technique.”

“Life Force introduced me to Lyford’s work. It’s known and loved by the people of the city. I like that he carved these figurative pieces using local stone.

The dolphins are made from Deer Isle granite.”

–andy verzosa

Below: Nude, 8", alabaster. sold by skinner auctioneers for $13,530 in 2015.

–andy verzosa

Judy o’donneLL (1957- ) Falmouth Family, 2016, 42" x 20" x 16", stainless steel (two views). portland art Gallery. artist asking price: “$8,500.”

Striped Bass, 33.5", black granite. sold by thomaston place auction Galleries for $3,250 in 2015.

“I’m interested in working formally with shape, shadow, and pattern. Picasso is a huge influence.”

–anne zill

from top: andres verzosa; amelia connoly; jay york

–judy o’donnell

“When I first saw Judy’s work I didn’t take to it immediately. Then a few years ago, I saw her exhibition at 3 Fish Gallery in Portland.

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Bernard LangLais (1921-1977) Cushing Lion, 1970s, 10', carved wood. ogunquit museum of ameri-

can art. “Large pieces by the artist sell for between $25,000$75,000+.”-Lin Lisberger, portland public art committee.

Porcupine, 30" x 48", wood relief.

sold at barridoff galleries for $5,280 in 2015.

“Langlais is such a well represented and well loved artist both here in Maine and across the country. He’s notable for these large, figurative outdoor sculptures, which he made using reclaimed Maine wood. He worked with what he felt engaged with. Animals were a favorite subject. He’s just so beloved by so many people.” from top: courtesy ogunquit museum for american art; courtesy the artist

–andy Verzosa

Mark Herrington, (1965-) Franklin Six Squared, 2016, 60" x 10", granite. on sale at Littlefield gallery, Winter harbor for $4,800.

“I appreciate the smooth lines, geometric form, and simple abstraction of his work.”

Frances LaMont (1899-1975) Ogunquit Garden Toad, 2' x 2', Westfield green marble. ogunquit museum of american art. sculpture by the artist has sold at auction for between $400-$4,000.

“I just love the subject matter and the material. It’s so simple and primitive.

Her creations hold a sense of innocence and wonder.”

–andy Verzosa

Left: Deer, 1942, 10.24", bronze on marble plinth. sold at William Jenack auctioneers for $375 in 2015. right: Standing Nude , 43", bronze. sold at sotheby’s new york for $4,612 in 1999.

–bruce brown

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in sp iration hugh lassen (1977- ) Cherryfield Crab, 2015, 28" x 26" x 15", slate. on sale at the littlefield gallery, Winter harbor for $5,000.

“His work appeals to my appreciation of beautiful, clean, simple shapes.”

charlie hewitt (1946- ) Portland Portland Rattle, 2015, 25', steel.

511 congress street, portland. Jim Kempner gallery, the artist’s representative in new york, values hewitt’s work at “around $250,000.”

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Carole Whelan (1973- ) Hope Hope is the Thing with Feathers, 2016, 4', galvanized and stainless steel.

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asherah cInnamon (1945- ) Limington Forgiveness: Selichot, 2016, 22" x 24" x 6", mixed media. shown in los angeles. similar works by the artist have sold for $2,500.

“Asherah is an arresting conceptual artist.”

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Louise neveLson (1899-1988) Rockland SKY CATHEDRAL, (30 parts), 1959-1961, 89" x 93" x 18", wooden boxes. sold at sotheby’s New York in 2014 for $989,000.

“Nevelson was at the forefront of the avant garde movement. Her work is so sophisticated you wouldn’t even guess she was from a small sardine-canning town in Maine!”

Jean noon (1965- ) Springvale Goddess, Ganesh, Octopussy, 2016, 3' x 2', wire. UNe Art Gallery. Artist asking price: “$1,500.”

“Jean uses gut coated with acrylic in her work. That’s pretty much unique among sculptors.

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Jud Hartmann (1948- ) Blue Hill Minavivana ‘Le Grand Sauteur’, 21", bronze. sold by James D. Julia 2015, $7,000. six more pieces coming up for auction soon, with presale estimate as high as $20,000 also at James D. Julia.

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October 28, 2016 – March 18, 2017 PHANTOM PUNCH: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM SAUDI ARABIA IN LEWISTON, MAINE

Rashad Al Shashai, Heavens Doors, Mixed Media, 101 1/8 x 256 5/8in

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spotlight on the void aiwanese-born Maine artist LingWen Tsai, 46, does it all, fusing her talents in painting, photography, and video imagery with installation and performance art. As Associate Professor and Chair of the MECA Sculpture Program, Tsai engages crowds with her ephemeral, fourth-dimensional approach. “It feels inadequate to try to define sculpture. I want

to push against definition. I like to explore sound, space, emotion.” In particular, Tsai’s installation work concerns itself with interactive experience and audience participation. An exhibition entitled “Sitting Quietly,” which was shown at Coleman Burke and the UNE Gallery in 2012, exemplifies her preoccupation with silence and absence. Audience members are invited to enter a circle of stools, put on noise-cancelling headphones,

and just…sit. “I wanted to remove the expectation of being entertained. By taking away any external distractions the audience is rewarded with silence and space. You create this private, individual space in a public area. It invites introspection.”

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paSt proJeCtIonS hen Portland Magazine first interviewed Frank Menair in 2007, he had just surged onto the local art scene with his striking photography project, Projectotrain. Nearly 10 years later, Menair, now 41, continues the vivid process of capturing images projected onto the sides of passing train cars at night–a method that “can take literally months to get one image.”

Menair’s approach has evolved over the intervening years as the artist has lived and learned. He’s introduced an industrial

“It can take literally months to get one image.” strength projector; flash bulbs have replaced the heavy and costly strobe lighting units (“I used to borrow them and invariably break them”); and perhaps most significantly, he’s switched from film to digital photography.

Other changes have been more conceptual, won from years of consideration and development.

“Back at one of my openings in 2011, an artist I hugely admire, mp Warming, approached me and said, ‘I like what you do, but you’ve gotta do more. You need to create a unity between the environment and the content and context of your photos.’ I mean, I guess it’s not considered polite to speak to someone like that at their exhibition opening, but I appreciated it! I’m a lot more thoughtful now with what I do.” With this in mind, Menair has attempted to tie his “pathological obsession” with trains into the context of his recent images. This has included projecting a large portrait of Amtrak Downeaster founder, Wayne Davis, something of a personal hero to the artist, onto a traincar. The theme of family still dominates the ongoing Projectotrain project as it did back in 2007, although “It’s never easy, because my family is now scattered all over the globe.”

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Top picture: Frank Menair’s Lindsay’s Eyes and Flowers.

Below: Robert Bennett Jr.’s ylem was made using plaster, 2-inch speakers, 2 x 4s, and wooden dowels.

Right: Bennett Jr. plans his next move.

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of an empty vodka bottle and an urn, references to the artist’s father’s passing in 2003.

“As a former professor once told me, ‘The more personal you make it, the more universal you make it.’”

Listening in Enrolling at MECA in 2010, Robert Bennett Jr. originally planned to pursue a major in painting. However, the freedom of expression that Tsai’s sculpture program offered soon drew him in. “Unlike painting, I had no preconceived ideas about sculpture.

It was an open book for me.”

Bennett Jr. combines both sound and performance installations to create pieces that question “how much history is found in any given space.” Using printed silkscreen drapes and bone-conducting exciters–transducers that use direct vibration of the skull to convert surfaces into speakers, emitting recordings of fellow artists reading aloud–Bennett’s 2014 thesis show, They Could No Longer Contain Themselves, attempted to establish human connections between artist and audience.

Since graduation, his work has deepened into “exploring soundscapes more and more, as well as performance art. I’m currently planning a project entitled With Me– I’ll attempt things like lying down in public and waiting until someone lies down next to me. I don’t really think anyone will. I want to show that difference between your needs and expectations–the imperfect reality.” n

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GeorGe CarPenter (1928-2006) ogunquit, Ogunquit, Maine, 16" x 20", oil on board. sold: James D. Julia, 2016, $1,303.50

abrahaM JaCob boGdanove (1887-1946) monhegan island, Oceanside, 18.5" x 22.5", oil on canvas. sold: thomaston place, 2016, $1,500

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William Pierce StubbS (1850-1902) Bucksport, Ship’s portrait of the Carrie e. Phillips, 27.5" x 41.5", oil on canvas.

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Walter e. Schofield (1866-1944) Farfield, Coast of Maine, 39" x 45", oil on canvas. Sold: James D. Julia, 2016, $26,662.50

Janet conlon manyan (1954- ) Saco, Blonde, 13" x 9", oil on canvas.

Sold: thomaston Place, 2016, $450

martin JohnSon heade (18191904) york, Roman Newsboys II, 1849, 35.5" x 31", oil on canvas. Sold: James D. Julia, 2016, $189,600

Samuel Peter rolt triScott (18461925) monhegan island, Scrub Pine on Shore, 14.5" x 7", watercolor on paper.

Sold: thomaston Place, 2016, $300 ed (edWin) douglaS (1935 - ) Portland, Cool Nude, 2.5" x 20", oil on luan panel. Sold: thomaston Place, 2016, $375

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frank toWnSend lent (1855-1919) Designed many summer houses in maine. Overlooking Lake Champlain, 7" x 11", oil on academy board. Sold: thomaston Place, 2016, $1,900

donald allen moSher (1945-2014) Stonington. Stonington, Maine, 20" x 24", oil on canvas. Sold: James D. Julia, 2016, $3,258.75

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Stefan PaStuhov (1953- ) stockton springs, Black’s Hill Bridge, 29.5" x 33.5", oil on canvas. sold: thomaston place, 2016, $1,400

William BaldWin belfast, Winter in Jackson, 35" x 29", oil on masonite. sold: thomaston place, 2016, $1,400

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At the corner of Sawyer & Rte. 77. South Portland clement drew (1806-1889) Portland, Plymouth Light, 10.5" x 13.5", oil on canvas. Sold: Northeast Auctions, 2016, $2,640

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warren w. sheppard (1838-1957) Boothbay, End of Day, Halfway Rock Light, 19.75" x 30", oil on canvas. Sold: Barridoff Galleries, 2016, $5,500

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andreW WyetH (1912-2009) cushing, Flood Plain, 24.5" x 48", tempera on panel. sold: sotheby’s new york, 2015, $5,178,000

WinsloW Homer (1836-1910) scarborough, In Charge of Baby, 8.5" x 13.5", watercolor. sold: national Academy of Design, 2015, $2,650,000

Jamie WyetH (1946- ) monhegan island, Pumpkinhead–Self-Portrait, 30" x 30", oil on canvas. sold: sotheby’s new york, 2016, $1,690,000

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alex Katz (1927- ) lincolnville, December, 72" x 96", oil and canvas. sold: christie’s new york, 2016, $605,000

GeorGia o’Keeffe (1887–1986) visitor to york beach, Lake Reflection, 58" x 34", oil on canvas. sold: christie’s new york, 2016, $12,933,000

Walt KuHn (1877-1949) ogunquit, Study for ‘Young Clown’, 19.25" x 16.25", watercolor and pencil. sold: sotheby’s new york, 2015, $30,000

GeorGe W. BelloWs (1882–1925) monhegan island, The Dock, 15" x 19.5", oil on panel. sold: christie’s new york, 2015, $1,985,000

marsden Hartley (1877–1943) lewiston, Camden Hills from Baker’s Island, 22" x 28", oil on board. sold: christie’s new york, 2015, $2,741,000 september 2016 89

in v estmen t Childe hassam (1859-1935) isles of Shoals, Sunset Above Newburgh, 15” x 22”, watercolor on paper.

Sold: Bonhams new york, 2016, $22,500 marguerite ZoraCh (1887-1968) georgetown, Georgetown Island, Maine, 20" x 24", oil on canvas. Sold: heritage auction house, 2016, $16,250 Waldo PeirCe (1884–1970), Bangor, Harvard Tercentenary 1936, 25" x 30", oil on canvas. Sold: Barridoff galleries, 2016, $16,800 roCkWell kent (1882-1971), monhegan island, Greenland I, 34" x 44", oil on canvas. Sold: northeast auctions, 2016, $180,000 edWard hoPPer (1882–1967) ogunquit, monhegan island, Rockland, Portland, Pemaquid, Cape elizabeth, Study for ‘The City’, 8.5" x 11", charcoal on paper. Sold: Barridoff galleries, 2015, $45,600

Charles Woodbury (1864-1940) ogunquit, The Breaker, 36.25" x 40", oil on canvas. Sold: Bonhams new york, 2016, $16,250

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eriC hoPkins (1951- ) mount Desert island, Blue Thorofare, 22.5" x 30", watercolor on canvas.

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A tale of two projects that will change the face of Portland.

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aron stephan was delighted to win the $20,000 commission, with $5,000 to install it beyond that, to provide a public sculpture for Woodford’s Corner in front of the Odd Fellows Building. But which of his three entries will win (see photos with variations)?

Each of his designs is “made out of ordinary streetlights,” according to the Portland Press Herald, which has charted his passage through review committees and public forums. “One design is a cluster of five double-headed streetlights twisted into the form of a tree. One has streetlights clustered

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tight at the base and rising straight up as they spread apart. A third design, with three streetlights, has a curved, swirling design.”

A signature element of a Stephan sculpture is to repurpose existing imagery and reconfigure it in a startling way. What might have been dated street lights will now be a

somewhat astonishing luminescent bouquet for drivers zipping through this urban corridor. In 2009 the artist used ancient maple wood to create a tree sculpture that seems to burst up through the tiles of a Westbrook middle school, no doubt setting its young students’ imaginations alight.

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Clockwise from left: Aaron Stephan in his studio; Possible Inevitable, 2013, 9' x 9' x 9', wood, suggests reclaimed shipping crates recast in human form. A tree erupts through Westbrook Middle School to show students the power of nature (Return, 2009, 15' x 15' x 25', fashioned from 500-year-old reclaimed maple); Accumulate, 2016, 8' x 8' x 14', glass; an installation entitled 30 Columns at the Farnsworth Museum in 2010 surprised visitors with its irreverent arrangement of Greek Revival columns, casually splayed.

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Portfolio snaPshots: ned Kahn’s Cloud Vessel (inset upper right), 2010, sacramento, Ca. thin sheets of perforated metal are hinged to sway in the wind, with lights and mist sprayers hidden between the layers. Cable and String (opposite page), an ongoing project from 2000-present, is an installation by Patrick Marold that is displayed throughout the world. Marold hangs materials that play with light and shade. Matthew ritchie blurs the lines between art and nature in This Garden At This Hour (above), 2014, silver spring, MD. Still Life with Landscape (right) by sarah sze wowed strollers through “high line,” site of a former new York Central railroad line and now an elevated park, new York, 2011.

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top left: Meaghan Maurice; artwork courtesy the artists

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The once neglected square on the corner of the busy Congress and High streets intersection has recently become the center of a competitive new public arts project. Congress Square Park, saved from development by impassioned Portland residents of in 2014, is due to become the canvas for an artwork designed by a bright young thing on the sculpture scene.

Patrick Marold of Colorado; Ned Kahn of California; and Matthew Ritchie and Sarah Sze, both of New York City, have presented their proposals for the space to the Portland Public Art Committee in a bid to win the $75,000 grant and a chan ce to create a centerpiece within the diminutive park, currently the site of intermittent salsa nights, live music, and film screenings.

Each artist has provided video and photographic examples of previous public works. The successful artist will design and install their creation in partnership with Philadephia-based design architecture firm WRT. “The requirements for this piece were both rigorous and nebulous,” says chair of the Portland Public Art Committee Lin Lisberger. “On one the hand we need a 3D artist with experience in outdoor installations with a durability of up to 25 years. And on the other we want an artist rather than a designer–a truly top-notch sculptor who can collaborate without compromising his or her work. Our finalists fit that brief. I’m extremely happy with the selection; they’re all thoughtful, engaging artists.”

Any regrets not to include a local artist?

“We were interested in the cross-fertilization of creativity. We didn’t want to confine our search by geography.”

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On The

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Walker, Sketcher, Pilgrim: One woman’s 500-mile journey across Spain.

Artist and former L.L.Bean creative director Jennifer Lawson documents her physical and creative journey along the Camino de Santiago, Spain. t all started when my long-time friend Patti and I decided to walk the Camino de Santiago for an important birthday milestone. We read about it, trained for it, and I decided to put my art to the test. I would commit to sketch daily, recording my journey along the way. With packs on our backs (that for 5 weeks would be our dressers; closets; medicine cabinets; pantries; and, for me, my art studio), we’d walk 500 miles from St. Jean Pied de Port France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

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With scallop shells hanging from our backpacks to identify us as pilgrims we set off to Roncesvalles, Spain.

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Odys s ey My journaling took the form of a sketch book. With pencils, pens, and watercolors in hand I recorded daily inspirations with a freeness and creative spirit that had been too long set aside. My sketch kit included a permanent ink pen, a permanent ink brush pen, a travel water brush, a small watercolor palette, and a couple of small watercolor sketchbooks. It’s really just a small sampling of the supplies I have in my studio at home, but like everything else on the Camino, you simply must adjust.

At the 100-mile mark of our journey we arrived at the city of Logrono and went in search of the much-talkedabout local tapas.

After winding our way through the busy city streets, we found the most beautiful and delicious tapas imaginable.

At the highest point of the route is La Cruz de Ferro. Many pilgrims bring a rock to place at the base of this holy iron cross. I carried two from the beach near my home in Maine to honor this tradition, which is said to be thousands of years old and meant to symbolize the casting off of your sorrows.

The city of Leon is the 300-mile mark of our journey, just the place for a much needed day off from walking. I usually sketch quickly with a pen, adding loose, bright watercolor washes to capture the moment, but this ancient building with its complex lines, angles, and details was going tp take a slower, studied line. I started to draw, and with this sketch my art took me to closer understanding that I was on a pilgrimage.

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We made it–joining thousands of expectant pilgrims who end up at the plaza in front of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela! They say when you get to Santiago you are no longer a pilgrim, you are now just a tourist. I’m not sure how I felt about that.

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ince returning to Maine, I still long for that ‘simple’ life of walking through the ever-changing landscape, enjoying a café con leche or a vino blanco with fellow pilgrims, and finding a place to sketch at the end of each amazing day. The Camino is probably the nearest I have been to my real artist self–I make art, therefore I am. In fact, I liked it so much that I went and booked my next trip shortly thereafter to the “Camino Portuguese,” 150 miles from Porto, Portugal to Santiago, Spain with, of course, my sketchbook in my all-too-heavy backpack in tow.

Upon arriving back in Maine, a friend asked me to do a “Pecha Kucha” presentation about our walk. At the end people asked me, “When is the book coming out?” Truthfully, I had more to share. Patti and I decided to go for it and create a book of the journey. We’ve been working on the project for over a year now. Did I mention it was easier to walk 500 miles across Spain than it is to make a book? Exhausting! n

Walking in Watercolor: An Artist’s Pilgrimage on the Camino, by Jennifer Lawson and Patricia Lennon, will be released in March 2017.

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HEN WE DINE out, atmosphere is part of the experience as much as the food.

This is particularly true downtown in Portland, where we think of ourselves as an artsy town. Our memories of beloved bygone spots are tied up in the surroundings as much as the food. Brunch at the old Café Uffa on State Street meant the long, Modigliani-madonna faces of local painter Nance Parker’s colorful portraits gazing down upon us.

And remember the velvet Elvises and flying pigs at Uncle Billy’s?

Today, some restaurants, including the Blue Spoon and Local 188, use their walls as art galleries, featuring a single artist with works for sale for a period of weeks. Most just hang the art they love.

OASIS The no-longer-secret getaway for a serene glass of wine and tasty snack on Washington Avenue is the Drifter’s Wife. Opened last year as a natural wine shop by owners Peter and Orenda Hale, it was reconfigured this year into a wine bar with wine shop at the back. It’s been featured in Food + Wine, and Bon Appetit just named it to this year’s list of 50 Best New Restaurants.

The wine bar is spotless and spare, with butcher-block and marble-topped tables and white walls punctuated by a set of framed, dreamy, abstract prints.

“The artist, Kumi Korf, is a longtime

Suitable for framing: Beautifully plated dishes pair well with unique art at Drifter’s Wife.

friend of Orenda’s,” says Peter Hale. “They just seemed to fit.”

And they really do fit with the few other carefully chosen accents in the long, naturally lit room, such as the pointy mother-inlaw’s-tongues plant and an antique mirror.

Chef Ben Jackson’s simple, seasonal dishes are the perfect complement. A salad pairs pieces of cooked bluefish with green beans and cherry tomatoes all held together by a bright poblano chile crème fraîche dressing. You can find unusual wines from

around the world by the glass for up to $15 per glass.

There’s no getting around the name Drifter’s Wife–especially since both Hales are almost always on hand. “It’s the title of a J.J. Cale song,” explains Alexis, our server.

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Hungry EyE ace of Knossos in Crete,” says John Regas, manager and host of Emilitsa (below), the haut-Greek restaurant on Congress Street he owns with his brother Demos Regas. “It’s from around 1500 BC.” So what’s it doing here?

It’s a replica, painted by “a local artist and designer, Judy Schneider,” says Demos, executive chef. “I like art a lot, and I really liked the art at Knossos when I visited Kriti.

I love this picture, and it’s appropriate since Greek cuisine is based so much on seafood. Judy wanted to do it large scale.

It’s actually part of the wall, not a separate painting. There are a couple of layers of plaster over the plasterboard and she painted it directly onto the wall.”

ed pita triangles–are a still-life work of art.

The chef de cuisine, Demos’s son Niko, has excellent taste. Are they Cretans?

“We’re Spartans, actually,” says Demos, referring to the arid part of the Pelopponese renowned for its ancient warriors and, these days, for olives.

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Judy Schneider’s Minoan fresco replica was painted directly on the wall at Emilitsa.

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Local 188 for the artistic, La Bohème vibe that reassures us that we live in a city that really cares about art and artists. The food is Latin-influenced, the dining room walls are used as an art gallery offering a changing selection of art for sale. The music is always good.

Portlander Patrick Corrigan’s birds and fanciful images painted directly on the bar and some of the walls are part of the soul of this restaurant and two others–Sonny’s and Salvage BBQ–also owned by husband and wife artists Jay and Allison Villani. Corrigan’s bird imagery dominates at Local, and his graphic, menu, and website art proliferates at all three.

“I moved to Portland in ’93,” says Woonsocket, Rhode Island native and Massachusetts College of Art graduate Corrigan.

“I majored in illustration and did editorial work for years. Lettering has been something I’ve picked up since then. Sign painting has helped hone that skill.

“Allison and Jay opened an art gallery called The Pleasant Street Collective a few years prior to Local 188. I met them there and showed my first fine-art paintings. It was the coolest gallery in town. We ended up going on to open Local 188 together, which combined art and art exhibitions with Jay’s culinary skills.”

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he Regases put up the plaster,” explains artist Schneider later. She painted the image right there in the dining room. When asked if she replicated the wet-plaster fresco technique, she laughs. “It’s acrylic paint–sorry to burst your bubble. I’ve always painted, and I did this painting my own way, although Demo kept on me to make the fish accurate. He pays attention to every detail.”

He sure does. Emilitsa is one of the most attractive restaurants in the city. The food is impeccable and beautifully presented. A crisp glass of chilled assyrtiko with a dish of fava–made with yellow lentils from Santorini and garnished with slivers of onion and toast-

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partner Oscar Verest. “Artists include miamibased [pop artist] romero britto, [surrealist

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a few. We have also collected many antiques and crafts on our travels to the Far east.”

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“A few people are real, but the rest are fictional so no one would feel left out. This is Joel Freund, the second owner,” he says of a smiling bearded figure. Quattrucci was the first, and Matthews has been the third and current owner since 2002, although he’s worked here since the ’90s. Freund died of cancer in 2005.

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he Back Bay Grill is now nearly 30, a dining destination in Bayside before Bayside was cool. The clubby interior and art are part of its history. It was Matthews’s wife Kristin Carboni-Matthews, an antique dealer with her mother Peggy Carboni in Wells, who discovered the three “jazz paintings” that are clustered on the wall of the bar at an antique shop in Massachusetts. “Ella Fitzgerald is easy to recognize in this one,” says Matthews, pointing, “and this is apparently Coltrane.”

Another remarkable painting catches your eye as you head from the bar into the dining room. It’s Van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters, his grim depiction of poverty as an austere meal. Only it’s not, because these dour peasants are sharing fluted dishes of crème brûlée–a Back Bay Grill special–rather than potatoes.

“It was painted for the tenth anniversary in 1998,” says Matthews. “People who recognize the work either love it–or a few find it appalling.” n

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here are views and there are views. If they ever give Oscars for Virtual House Tours, Acadia Realty Group has a shot in the exterior mansions category.

Their virtual tour for “Bella Vista” on 10 Graff Road in Bar Harbor starts at sea level, then rises along jagged granite cliffs amid the swooping geography of Acadia National Park. Like gulls, the world tilts below our wings. “Egg Rock is easily visible from the entire waterside,” says Kate Thompson, who with her husband Michael purchased the house in 2008.

“From up here your can see the Porcupine islands. Local fishermen and lobster-

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men are visible all day long. It’s pretty cool to see them pull their traps. You can see the schooner pulling out downtown and where the cruise ships stop. We’ve had whales right in by the island.”

Priced at $4.888M, this 6,200-squarefoot, four bedroom, five bath contemporary is too grand for an aerie–it’s closer to a sky castle. “We purchased it after it was built initially, but we transformed it inside and out,” Kate says, adding “I can’t tell you who did the architecture,” as there are loftier imperatives to loving this estate than design.

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“Local fishermen and lobstermen are visible from up here all day long. We’ve had whales right in by the island.”

the past: “When I was a child my dad was the commanding officer at the Coast Guard base at Owls Head near Camden. We spent every summer there, so I was hooked.”

Reality interrupted the fantasy. She grew up in Massachusetts. She’s now retired from a career in diagnostic ultrasound. By contrast, her husband specializes in the unseen.

“My husband is in the securities end of homeland security. He does international and government security operations. His company is called CSMI, based in Massachusetts.” According to its website, the firm’s specialties include information col-

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lection in “some of the world’s most difficult and challenging environments,” from IT to radar to robotics to “Optoelectronic Surveillance (EO/IR) and Elevated Sensors– including Data Management and Situational Understanding Systems.”

It’s likely that the television and phone reception are excellent at Bella Vista. On a clear day, you can see (and hear) forever.

“My favorite is the very top room,” Kate says. “It’s all windows across, with unobstructed views. There are views from all the balconies, though.” Next stop, “Florida.”

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A Night at the Museum our cellar master guides us through the galleries, where we discover masterpieces become more sublime with a glass in hand.

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Alone with the artworks, you’re free to feast your eyes at your leisure. So why not quench your thirst, too?

With these masterpieces begging for pairings, you deserve libations of equal stature to sip!

Helene is Restless by Mary Cassatt Mary Cassat was a Francophile at heart, so what better wine to sip than a bottle of the 1990 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti La Tache? The epitome of a classic Pinot noir, and at $5,000 a bottle, it’s a true masterpiece in its own right!

Weatherbeaten by Winslow Homer

A fine dram of one of the great single-malt scotches of the world, all the way from windswept Islay in Scotland, Laphroaig 30 Year Old Scotch Whiskey is a fitting match for one of Homer’s iconic Maine seascapes. The princely price tag of $1,500 per bottle is a mere fraction of what this painting would sell for at auction. september 2016 111

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Pemaquid Light by Edward Hopper The 1862 D’Oliveira Sercial Madeira ($895), from the island of the same name off the coast of Portugal, is the driest style of Madeira made from the Sercial grape. A late-ripening grape that’s able to maintain its acidity, the Madeira has the color of a tawny port and a similar aromatic profile of old Rieslings. It’s even more delicious when consumed in front of Hopper’s delightfully dreamy lighthouse scene.

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Untitled by Louise Nevelson

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In pagan times, the autumnal equinox or “Mabon” was a celebration of mindfulness of the previous year, the coming season, and of darkness as the place to regain balance–a time when night and day are equal. This year, the autumnal equinox falls on September 22.

The equivalent Christian holiday of Michaelmas, or the Second Harvest, ties us to our own back-to-the-land, foodie, farm-to-table existences. In my French heritage past, where I gained my seasonal awareness through our jardins of plenty, late summer or early fall meant meals of salted spare ribs, fresh green beans, and frozen corn eaten mid-winter to recreate the tastes of summer and remind me to be aware of the fading sun and the rising times of darkness and gleanings. n

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RestauRant Review Bayside American Café (formerly Bintliff’s) has been owned and run by Joe & Diane Catoggio since 2003. Their craveable menu includes simple to decadently delicious items like house-made smoked salmon, corned beef hash, crab cakes, sandwiches, salads, Benedicts, and more. Come enjoy the food and drinks, and discover why customers love Bayside American Café. Breakfast, brunch, and lunch are served daily starting at 7 a.m. 774-0005. 98 Portland St., Portland, baysideamericancafe.com.

Bueno Loco offers a unique Mexican experience in Falmouth. We use only the freshest ingredients and make the best houseinfused margaritas! Open daily for lunch and dinner. Happy hour 4-6 pm. Live music Thursdays 6-9 pm. Kids’ menu. Dine in or take out. Plenty of free parking! View our full menu at buenoloco.net. 240 U.S. Rt. 1, Falmouth, 619-7057.

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Bruno’s Voted Portland’s Best Italian Restaurant by Market Surveys of America, Bruno’s offers a delicious variety of classic Italian, American, and seafood dishes–and they make all of their pasta in-house. Great sandwiches, pizza, calzones, soups, chowders, and salads. Enjoy lunch or dinner in the dining room or the Tavern. Casual dining at its best.

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Bull Feeney’s Authentic Irish pub & restaurant, serving delicious fromscratch sandwiches, steaks, seafood & hearty Irish fare, pouring local craft & premium imported brews, as well as Maine’s most extensive selection of single malt Scotch & Irish whiskeys. Live music five nights. Open 7 days, 11:30 a.m.-1 a.m.

Kitchen closes at 10 p.m. 375 Fore St., Old Port, 773-7210, bullfeeneys.com Crooners & Cocktails Dine in style surrounded by the sounds of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin at Portland’s only supper club throwback. Enjoy a high energy atmosphere with traditional American cuisine, classic cocktails, and great music celebrating a classic era. We are open 6 days a week for dinner Tues.-Sat. 4 p.m.-1 a.m. and Sunday brunch 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. 90 Exchange St., Portland. 536-0469, croonersandcocktails.com DiMillo’s Now’s the time to enjoy everything DiMillo’s has to offer: fabulous dishes prepared by Head Chef, Melissa Bouchard, voted one of Maine’s Chef’s of the Year, plus our lobster and seafood specials, our delicious steaks and Italian dinners and outside dining topside and portside. Open every

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El Rodeo, an incredibly authentic Mexican Restaurant and Bar, is locally-owned and family-operated at their convenient South Portland location. Open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner. Tableside guacamole, sizzling fajitas, delicious margaritas, and live Latin music are to be enjoyed. See Facebook for daily specials. 147 Western Ave., South Portland, 773-8851 Eve’s at the Garden, an oasis of calm and great food in the middle of the Old Port.

The perfect spot for meetings, special occasions, and a cocktail. Ingredients from Maine’s waters and farms: jumbo scallops, natural, sustainable pork, beef, fish, and shellfish, and Maine lobster. Home to the annual Ice Bar, Eve’s garden is perfect for outdoor dining in season. Happy Hour Mon. - Fri.; free valet parking. Lunch 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m., Dinner 5-9:30 pm. 468 Fore St., Portland, 775-9090, evesatthegarden.com J’s Oyster is a premier seafood destination and locals’ favorite with indoor and outdoor waterfront seating on one of Portland’s scenic piers. Established in 1977, J’s offers classic favorites and friendly service. Coastal Living claimed J’s one of “America’s Best Seafood Dives 2016.” Find us on Facebook. 772-4828 Kon Asian Bistro Steakhouse & Sushi Bar is upscale Asian with modern flair. Japanese, Sushi, Thai, Chinese–or try our hibachi tables.

Our private party room accommodates groups from business meetings to birthday parties. Choose fresh, delicious items and enjoy our entertaining chefs preparing your meal in front of you. Family friendly; open Mon.-Thurs. 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m., Fri. to 11 p.m., Sat. 1 p.m-11 p.m., Sun. 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m. 874-0000, konasianbistrome.com Maria’s Ristorante is Portland’s original classic Italian Restaurant. Greg and Tony Napolitano are always in house preparing classics like Zuppa de Pesce, Eggplant Parmigian, Grilled Veal Sausages, Veal Chop Milanese, homemade cavatelli pastas, Pistachio Gelato, Limoncello Cake, and Maine’s Best Meatballs. Prices $11.95 - $22.95. Tue.-Sat. starting at 5 p.m. Catering always available. 337 Cumberland Ave. 772-9232, mariasrestaurant.com Pedro’s focuses on simple yet full-flavored Mexican and Latino food. Offering tacos, burritos and an impressive array of margaritas, sangria, beer, and wine.

Especiales de la semana (specials of the week) keep the menu varied and fresh and showcase different Latino cultures.

Seasonal outdoor dining available. Open daily, 12 p.m. - 10 p.m. 181 Port Rd., Kennebunk, 967-5544, pedrosmaine.com

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Pier 77 & The Ramp Bar & Grill Pier 77 has a formal dining room with stunning views of Cape Porpoise Harbor & live music each weekend, while the Ramp is more casual, with its own bar menu at hard-to-beat prices. Open year-round. 77 Pier Rd., Kennebunkport, 967-8500, pier77restaurant.com * Rivalries Sports Pub & Grill An upscale sports bar serving creative pub food in a fun and comfortable atmosphere. Known for some of Portland’s best casual food, Rivalries’ menu has something for everyone. And with 30+ HD TVs and every major pro and college sports package, you won’t miss a game! Conveniently located in Portland’s Historic Old Port District. 774-6044, rivalriesmaine.com *reservations recommended

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liding into Solo Italiano early on a weeknight, we’re lucky to secure a table amid the bustle. Delicious portents–diners obviously adore this place! The jovial atmosphere makes the vast room feel less cavernous and more intimate, helped by the presence of the attractive new raw bar that juts into the dining area.

Watching the skilled crudo chefs at work is all the encouragement we need to order the Carpaccio di Capesante ($12), thinsliced local scallops basking in basil oil and tomato coulis, topped with a dusting of fennel pollen. The taste is fresh, luxurious, and downright unique. We follow with Antipasti, an Italian farm board with robiola cheese, coppa, sopressata, speck, finocchiona, salami di tartufo, wild boar, rabbit liver pate, and guanciale. We’d return for this plate again and again but for the menu changing almost daily. Next, we try Vitello Tonnato ($14), braised veal bathed in velvety tomato sauce (made with tuna, though you’d never guess), paired with baby kale,

extra virgin olive oil, and sea salt. The meat is as tender as it gets. You won’t want to miss out on the fresh house-made pastas or the prize-winning pesto–a recipe made in collaboration with Paolo Laboa, winner of the World Pesto Championship. We pair both of these by ordering the Pansotti alle Noci ($18), meaty tortellini stuffed with ricotta, walnuts, spinach, chard, kale, and borage, and topped with a spell-binding walnut pesto.

The enjoyment doesn’t end with the main course (treats on the drinks menu include the Vesper, a concoction of gin, vodka, and kina, $12). For dessert we choose Baci Di Dama, “lady’s kisses.” These delicate hazelnut cookies jolted by a layer of dark chocolate are a fitting ending to a delightful repast. Grazie Solo Italiano–may your reign on 100 Commercial Street be long! n Solo Italiano, 100 Commercial Street, Portland.

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n breezy Monhegan Island, artist Charles Elmer Martin (pictured left) didn’t just cover the waterfront, he covered The New Yorker magazine with fetching waterfront images created during endless summers in his Maine studio in a way that defined our state.

Built in 1918 and offered for sale today for

$550,000, Martin’s getaway, a sturdy threebedroom former fisherman’s shack, was a beachhead for the entire idea of a borderless Maine.

It wasn’t just the The Island Inn with its fluttering flag snapping atop its cupola that was visible from Martin’s long, lovely covered porch. Closer to heart and hearth was The Meadow, a sentient swath of eel grass and fennel that softens with the seasons, lighting September in fox orange and red.

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Runs in the Family: Jared Martin (below left) is an actor, director, producer, and, like his father, an artist. His Two Women (above) is clearly influenced by time spent on Monhegan.

the 1950s to the 1980s. He told New Yorkers what Maine looked like. For many New Yorkers, his Maine was Maine. Even Yankees fans among The New Yorker subscriber slowly developed a sneaker for sharing our shores via Martin’s covers and cartoons.

Martin was particularly adroit in transporting readers with kitschy images of saucy gulls, battered boats and lounge chairs, pale tourists with fishing poles, and buckets rusted just so, decorating the doorstep to an infinite Vacationland.

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After he died at 85 in Seaside Nursing Home (now known as Seaside Assisted Living) at 850 Baxter Boulevard in Portland in 1995, Martin, who wintered in Queens before the last few years, was remembered by Wolfgang Saxon in the New York Times: “He was born in Chelsea, Mass., and began his career as a set designer for the Little Theater in Boston in 1929. After moving to New York City in 1932, he worked in the Works Progress Administration’s Federal art project as a teacher and then supervisor until 1938 when The New Yorker began to publish his sketches...

“In World War II, he worked for the Office of War Information in North Africa, Italy and France. He headed a mobile leaflet unit as art director, poster designer and political cartoonist for publications airdropped behind enemy lines.

“Over the years his drawings appeared in Time and Life magazines, Harper’s, The Saturday Evening Post, The Saturday Review,

Punch and Esquire as well as The New Yorker. His work was exhibited at various galleries and at the Brooklyn Museum. He is represented in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of the City of New York, Library of Congress, and at Syracuse University.”

But his heart was in Maine. s for the island structure itself, known as the “Martin House,” it’s located on a .63-acre lot at H-91 Hill Road. Living area is 1,260 square feet, with one full and one half bath. Annual taxes are $3,073.21. The Martin House is being offered by Charles’s son, actor-director Jared Martin, 74, of Los Angeles, who will forever be endeared to TV viewers for playing “Dusty” on Dallas from 1979 to 1991.

Other hit TV series where he’s appeared include Columbo; Magnum, P.I.; Knight Rider; The Six Million Dollar Man; Hart to Hart; and on and on. Educated at Columbia, Jared starred in Brian DePalma’s first feature, Murder a la Mod. Among those he’s directed, a fledgling Jill Clayburgh.

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“The master bedroom has old delicate blue patterned wallpaper on it,” he says, “with marvelous light coming from the west through dormer windows. My wife and I love it up there. I like sitting in the kitchen, because my mother sat there. My father had a chair you’d always see him in. It’s now covered with duct tape. If we do sell the house, I’d like to bring the chair down here.”

Jared remembers all sorts of visitors stopping in to see his father. “Zero Mostel was a close personal friend. My father was Zero’s teacher at the WPA Project” art school in New York. “I became friends with his son, Josh.” Just last year, “I directed Josh in a film called The Congressman,” a film largely shot on Monhegan. “Josh is a very talented guy.”

Other cast members under Martin’s direction in The Congressman: Treat Williams, George Hamilton, and Fritz Weaver.

Charles Martin pals included “[James] Fitzgerald, Joe Martini, Andrew Winter” of the bewitching seascapes. “My father and Jamie Wyeth were quite close.”

Martin falls silent, and you can tell his (Continued on page 123)

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Kelly rolls her eyes at her brother and says, “How?” “Godlike, the camera would begin overhead. And the spectator would watch Tommy’s Park for a moment, kind of like one watches the wide shots closely in films by John Ford and Sergio Leone and Michael Haneke. The spectator would watch, trying to figure out where his eye should fall— until, there! See? Someone has entered the frame. And with that, the camera would begin its descent, craning downward. You would float into the dream of the film.”

“Marvelous,” Kelly says. “I left my Oscar at home.”

Max laughs. “Who’d want an Oscar? You want to know what happened the last time I saw Evelyn?”

The way he packages these thoughts together, Kelly almost doesn’t notice his shift; instead, she watches one hippie across the

park cough as he passes his joint to another hippie. But then, Max’s words hit her, and she looks up at him. “Yeah, what happened?”

“It was five years ago. December…”

By calling into a radio contest and answering correctly its trivia question (“In which Hitchcock film has a killer recently fled the police in Portland? It’s Shadow of a Doubt. A childish question…”), Max won a ticket to a screening of Land Without Water at the Portland Museum of Art. So that night, he crowded into the small screening room–smaller even than the theater at the Movies on Exchange, but cleaner–and he watched the Portland-set film for a second time, feeling his “attention slip like smooth wet glass” from his fingertips.

“Did you just think of that,” Kelly asks, “or have you been rehearsing?”

After the screening, he climbed over some long-legged people in his row. Max was the one destined to become the next great Portland filmmaker, and his work

should’ve been on that screen instead. “I wasn’t bitter about it, though,” he says. “I just knew it. Like one knows a fact.”

Outside, he saw young people, lighting cigarettes, flicking collars skyward for shelter from the breeze. So with no collar to pop, and no cigarette to light, and no companion with whom to speak (he’s embellishing now, Kelly knows), Max started off home, going around the side of the museum to head south down High Street, looking upon Portland Harbor spread out before him, seeing all the lights and streets snaking together into ramshackle circuitry, lit up and electric.

As he hiked down High, he heard something up ahead and saw two silhouettes standing at the back museum entrance: a bulky man and a slim woman. He planned to pass without eye contact, but then the woman spoke. And what did she say? Please.

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She and the man looked at Max, who sighed, sighed, It’s me, I’m here.

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Then, she looked Max in the eye and shook her head, and a fresh drip rolled down her cheek. She turned from both men and hurried across High, neglecting to check for oncoming traffic, then dove into a parking lot. The light held her for a moment, but Evelyn hustled into darkness, and Max lost her.

“This was not the response I’d desired,” Max says.

“Obviously,” Kelly says.

So Max called Evelyn’s name. Then, “across the street I flew,” he tells Kelly. “I ran into the darkened lot, but I’d completely and utterly lost her. This didn’t stop me. I ran, shouting into the darkness, shouting into trees, into bushes, shouting at houses lit dimly as though by candlelight. I shouted her name and ran around my city, until I was lost and confused in Portland for the first time. But still I called to her, Evelyn, Evelyn–” He stops, takes a breath. “So that was that.”

“Jesus.” Kelly shakes her head.

Max narrows his eyes. “That’s what happened.”

“Forget it,” Kelly says, “I was just thinking I might get a little honesty here–you know, something real–but I should have known it would be just another fucking performance.” n

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