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