Final Bday 81 blog, Gloucester and Rockport, ships, etc.

 One final blog to show the other explorations, etc. of our trip. Thank you , Susan, for your inspired gift. 

At Plum Island earlier in the week

Another Tappan story

81th. birthday dinner

I told the hostess that the only think lacking in the ambiance was a Schooner passing by, and
shortly before desert, one passed by! 

the famous Motiv One in Rockport, painted by hundreds of artists

How does she do that? (Have an outfit on to match the subject matter).

Gloucester Town Hall

Just North of Rockport, Halibut Cove

Having breakfast in Rockport

Rockport Harbor

Boston from Gloucester breakwater

Final photo.  Someone must have painted this house. 

What a memorable and rewarding trip.  

Bday 81 blog 3 one more at CAM

 And finally, we come to the art that has made the Cape Ann Museum famous, it's incomparable collection of the great "luminist" Fitz Henry Lane.  The Cam has the largest collection of Lane's paintings, and they are presented in their own galleries to great effect.  I knew of the existence of the collection but had not visited the CAM.  The Hopper exhibit was the perfect excuse, but I saw it earlier than expected, thanks to Susan and her birthday "surprise" trip.  

Here is a sampling.  But their luminescence can only truly be appreciated by seeing the real thing.  And how rewarding!

Gloucester Harbor from Rocky Neck
1844

detail   
   

Gloucester Harbor
1852

Brace's Rock
1864

detail

detail

Norman's Woe, Gloucester Harbor
1863

detail

On the Wharves, Gloucester Harbor
1847

Stuart Davis  (1892-1964)
Gloucester Harbor,  1936

And with a great sense of humor, the CAM has a little side gallery with other visions by decidedly different artists. 

Gloucester Harbor at Dusk
1860

detail

detail

Three Master in Rough Seas
c. 1850

detail

View of Gloucester, Mass
1859
(Oil painted over a lithograph)

Pretty spectacular, yes?

One more blog however to come, as it was Gloucester Schooner Week, 

and the harbor held a lot of beautiful sailing craft. 

Blog 2, B-day trip: more art, Cape Ann Museum

 The Cape Ann Museum was so much more than I expected, with terrific marine displays as well as coastal art.  Here is more from this outstanding museum.

Eric Hudson (1862-1932
Harbor Tug
1910   Oil on canvas

Leon Kroll  (1884-1974)
Babson Quarry, Halibut Point
1913  Oil on canvas

Frederick Mulhaupt  (1871-1938)
Morning, Gloucester Harbor
c. 1920  Oil on canvas

Marsden Hartley  (1877-1943)
Wind-bitten Moors
1931  Oil on academy board

Rockwell Kent  (1882-1971)
First Snow, Greenland
1931  Oil on canvas

Leon Kroll   (1884-1974)
Calves Hole, Folly Cove
1915  Oil on canvas

Thomas Hart Benton   (1889-1975)
Trouble on the Picket Line
c.1934  Lithograph pencil and grease crayon on paper

Virginia Lee Demetrios
Winter Broaders
Undated  Carved Linoleum
Virginia Lee Demitrios founded a school for illustrators called the 
Folly Cove Designers.  She had her own room dedicated to her art at the CAM

Virginia Lee Demetrios  (1909-1968)
Folly Cove Diploma
Undated

V.L.D.
Three-part Curved Panel
undated  carved wood

Printing press

Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios
Gossips
undated  Linoleum block printed placemat, ink on linen

V.L.B.D.
Low, Low Tide
1962  Linoleum block printed placemat, ink on linen

 

Fresnel lighthouse lens

Anthony Thieme  (1888-1954)
Rockport Waterfront
c. 1930s  Oil on canvas

Fishing Schooner Elsie
Model by Eric Ronnberg  2010

Shadow Box: Hauling-out and Mast Stepping
Model by Erik Ronnberg, jr.   1997

Sloop "Great Republic"
Built for Howard Blackburn;s second single-handed crossing of the
Atlantic from Gloucester to Lisbon in a record-breaking 39 days. 
25' long, built by Archibald Fenton, Gloucester

Dory "Centennial"
In this 20' dory, in 1876, to celebrate the American centennial, fisherman Alfred Johnson made the first recorded single-handed crossing of the Atlantic, from Gloucester to Liverpool in 66 days.  He quietly returned to fishing on his return, and when asked in his final years why he had attempted such a dangerous voyage, he replied that he had been a "damn fool, just as they said I was".

Schooner "Benjamin W. Latham"
Model by Erik Ronnberg, Sr. and Jr. 

The "Andre Gail"
Model by Paul Gran
This fishing trawler became famous when her tragic loss at sea in 1991 was immortalized in
the film "The Perfect Storm"

The museum has so much to enjoy. 
Next blog: Fitz Henry Lane