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Rockwell Kent, Late Afternoon, Monhegan Island, collection of Jamie and Phyllis Wyeth
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It is a warm, sluggish summer day. My thoughts are already jumping ahead to this month’s Maine workshop. Our day trip to Monhegan Island was cancelled in June because of weather, so I’m doubly excited.
A chance word by a FB friend got me thinking about Rockwell Kent’s smashing paintings of Mañana from Monhegan—a view which we’ll be painting, exactly, since our site is next door to Kent’s former home. Looking at them is more bracing than a gin-and-tonic, sweeter than an ice cream cone!
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Rockwell Kent, Winter, Monhegan Island, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Rockwell Kent, Monhegan (c.1948) 12″ x 16″ oil on board, Tom Veilleux Gallery
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Rockwell Kent, Blackhead, Monhegan Island, Maine, private collection
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Rockwell Kent, Toilers of the Sea, 1907, New Britain Museum of American Art
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And one Hopper painting, for contrast:
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Edward Hopper, Blackhead, Monhegan, Whitney Museum of American Art
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