Between 1900 and 1940, a group of modernist artists gathered regularly on the coast of Maine in a region then known as Seguinland. For photographer Paul Strand, painter Marsden Hartley, sculptor Gaston Lachaise, and others, it was a way to escape market-driven, competitive, and divisive New York City, and celebrate a new kind of American Modernism. 
In this beautifully illustrated book, Libby Bischof and Susan Danly explore the state's important place in the history of modern art and show how summers in Seguinland inspired a new classicism that merged the antique with the modern. They also shed light on how the various artists' experiences in the refreshing atmosphere on the Maine coast cemented their friendships, shaped their individual styles, and fostered their understanding of what it meant to be a modern artist.

Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940

Arts & Photography

Danly, Susan

Bischof, Libby

History & Criticism

Portland Museum of Art

A rich compendium of Estes’ virtuosic photorealist paintings, which capture light and reflections in brilliant detail Richard Estes (b. 1932) is one of the most celebrated adopters of Photorealism; his paintings are characterized by painstaking detail that mimics the clarity and accuracy of photographs. Estes’ most famous canvases from the 1970s depict New York’s urban landscape, and his manner of painting reflections in a multitude of metal and glass surfaces displays astounding technical skill. In his subsequent career, Estes has continued to demonstrate his superlative ability to show complex plays of light and shadow in Maine seascapes, views of Venetian lagoons, and nighttime street scenes. Accompanying Estes’ first solo exhibition of paintings in the United States in over two decades, Richard Estes’ Realism surveys fifty years of his work and places him within the historical narrative of realist painting. The authors explore the ongoing modernist dialogue between camera and canvas, and discuss the situation of Estes’ work at the crossroads of painting and photography. Fifty full-page plates showcase the amazing precision of Estes’ paintings, and a thorough chronology and bibliography provide an enlightening account of his life. This handsome book offers a lavish presentation of Estes’ spellbinding body of work that attests to his enduring artistic impact.

Richard Estes' Realism

Sims, Patterson

May, Jessica

Ferrulli, Helen

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism : The Collector's Passion

Thorn, Megan (editor)

The allure of the Maine coast: Robert Henri and his circle, 1903-1918

Jessica F Nicoll

A Legacy for Maine: The November Collection of Elizabeth B. Noyce

Nicoll, Jessica

Wells, Owen

Larsen, Susan

Ransom, Susan

Journeys Over Water: The Paintings of Stephen Etnier

O'Leary, Daniel E.

Dahlov Ipcar: Seven decades of creativitiy

Ipcar, Dahlov Zorach

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Nov. 8, 2001-Jan. 6, 2002. 10.5x10.5", 116 pp., b&w photographs, 36 works illustrated in color.

Marguerite & William Zorach: Harmonies and contrasts

This is a softbound book published by the Portland Museum of Art, Seven Congress Square Portland, Maine in 2002 as an exhibition catalog from February --May 27, 2002. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2001 135849. It includes black and white and color illustrations of the artist and his works. There is an Introduction by Daniel O'Leary, a Chronology, Checklist of the Exhibition, Lenders to the Exhibition and Selected Public Collections.

The Poetry Within: the Life and Work of William Thon

Susan C. Larsen

Bernard Langlais: Independent spirit

Langlais, Bernard

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