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Past Events

Garden Party at Frances Perkins Center
Frances Perkins Center will host its 3rd Annual Garden Party 4–6 p.m. August 4, 2011, at the Brick House in Newcastle. Adam Cohen, author of “Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the 100 Days That Created Modern America” and the new introduction to Frances Perkins's “The Roosevelt I Knew,” will speak.

Tickets cost $35 per person or $100 per host committee. The following payment options are available:

  • Mail: Send a check payable to "FPC" to PO Box 281, Newcastle, ME 04553
  • Online: Follow the links at BrownPaperTickets.com
  • In person: Tickets are being sold at the Maine Coast Book Shop in Damariscotta

For more information, email info@FrancesPerkinsCenter.org or call 207-208-8955.

 

Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940
This exhibition of 65 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and photographs at the Portland Museum of Art will examine the personal and professional relationships of a small group of American modernists who worked in Maine in the first half of the 20th century. Although much of their artistic activity was centered in New York, along with their mentor the photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz, these artists all chose to summer in the small mid-coast communities south of Bath, in a region that was then known as “Seguinland.” It was there that they developed a camaraderie and sense of place that strongly influenced their work. This exhibition will feature works by F. Holland Day, Clarence White, Mardsen Hartley, Max Weber, Marguerite and William Zorach, and Gaston Lachaise, among others. Exhibit dates are June 4–September 11, 2011.

 

Preview of Portland Museum of Art Exhibit
On February 26, 2011, Professor Libby Bischof will preview the summer exhibition she is co-curating with Susan Danly at the Portland Museum of Art entitled: “Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940.” This is your opportunity to catch a glimpse of the upcoming Portland Museum of Art exhibit (see below) that will include dozens of works by artists such as Day, Hartley, Kasebier, Lachaise, Marin, Strand, Weber, White, and Marguerite and William Zorach, all of whom were inspired by the natural beauty and the camaraderie with other early 20th century artists in Georgetown.

The preview, which is being organized by the Georgetown Historical Society, will begin at 10:30 a.m. at 33 Summer Street in Bath. Visitors are encouraged to arrive by 10 a.m. to be sure to get a seat. The event is part of the 2011 Patten Free Library Town History Series. It compliments Maine Preservation's visit to Georgetown for their 2010 Annual Meeting, where attendees toured the Zorach homestead, Georgetown Historical Society's headquarters, and the former Seguinland Inn, which hosted an artists' summer school in the 1920s.

For more information, contact Georgetown Historical Society, (207) 371-9200, or Patten Free Library, (207) 443-5141.

 

 

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