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1939-2024
A Boothbay Harbor-born painter who built his home and studio on the Schoodic Peninsula from materials gathered on the shore, and spent five decades making the stylized, colorful Maine landscapes that hang in museums from Portland to Rockland to Bates College.
More on Philip Barter: Portland Art Gallery
1948-2024
A painter, sculptor, and author whose most vibrant work came in her final years, even as multiple sclerosis slowed her body; her book Ripple Effect gathered her paintings, poems, and photographs into an argument for the rivers and waterways of South Carolina and Maine.
More on Carol Bass: Press Herald
1929-2024
An art historian and critic whose career began at Arts Magazine in New York in the 1950s and culminated in her landmark study Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School; she chaired the Art History Department at Parsons School of Design for over two decades before settling in Maine and finally in Portland.
More on Martica Sawin: Wikipedia
1943-2023
A Philadelphia-trained abstract landscape painter who co-founded two Philadelphia galleries devoted to contemporary American craft before settling in Portland; her Maine work draws on photography, close observation, and the rhythms of the natural world.
More on Ann Sklar: Portland Art Gallery
