Summer At Last

It's the middle of June, the weather has given us some brilliantly sunny days, and I am painting as fast as I can! Happily, I will be out with my painting pal, JoAnn Ritter, on Cape Cod next week painting in the coves and inlets that harbor sailboats and dinghies along Brewster and Chatham coastlines.
Right now I'm painting beach scenes like the one above to ready my brain and my palette for the rigors of outdoor efforts.

By Friday of this week, I will have more beach scenes hanging at my new gallery, Lemon 'N Lyme, at 19 Halls Road, Old Lyme Shopping Center, Old Lyme, CT 06371. It's just a short hop from the exit of I-95 in either direction.

Meanwhile, back here in CT I am thrilled to report that my 30'x36" painting, "Passing Shower," a view of the Lyme Land Conservation Trust's property on Grassy Hill Road in Lyme, was juried into the very-big-deal summer show at the Lyme Art Association. That exhibit is called "Landscapes of Old Lyme: In the Footsteps of Our Founders," an homage to the artists who founded the art association in 1914.

These now-famous artists included American Impressionist painters Gifford Beal, Louis Paul Dessar, Childe Hassam, and Willard L. Metcalf joined with Will Howe Foote, Henry Rankin Poore, Allen B. Talcott, and Carleton Wiggins in the early exhibitions of the Association. The Lyme Art Association gallery was the culmination of seven years of planning by artists Frank Bicknell, William Chadwick, Harry Hoffmann, Wilson Irvine, Lawton Parker, William Robinson, Edward Rook, and Gregory Smith.

The building site was adjacent to Miss Florence Griswold's Late Georgian mansion, today a renowned museum of American Impressionism , where many of the artists gathered each summer season. The land was purchased from Miss Florence in 1917.
The building committee chaired by Lawton Parker, worked with architect Charles A. Platt, designer of the Freer Art Gallery in Washington , D.C. and the Lyman Allyn Museum in New London , CT.