At First Light

Description

In the spirit of popular Rizzoli titles, including California Light and Hudson River School, At First Light chronicles a group of twenty-six artists from the last 200 years who lived and worked in Maine. The state's extraordinary landscape - from its rugged coastline, quaint harbours, majestic mountains, and verdant forests - continues have a powerful effect on the artists who are drawn to its exceptional beauty. A love letter to the popular New England state, the book - written by some of the foremost experts in the field - focuses each chapter on a different artist featuring some of the best examples of their work and newly commissioned photography of their home and studio. From picturesque bungalows to grander structures with beautiful vistas, the houses and studios featured are as diverse as the artists that inhabit them. The artists featured include fan favorites from the eighteenth century to the present day, such as Winslow Homer, Frank Benson, Marguerite and William Zorach, Rockwell Kent, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Eliot Porter, Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, and Richard Estes, as well as N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth.

Anne Collins Goodyear is co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Frank H. Goodyear is co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Michael K. Komanecky is chief curator at the Farnsworth Art Museum, in Rockland, Maine

"Bowdoin College Museum of Art co-directors Anne Collins Goodyear and Frank Goodyear III, along with Farnsworth Art Museum chief curator Michael Komanecky, undertook the unenviable task of picking just 26 artists to represent the sweep of Maine art history...pairing brief biographies with present day photos of artists' homes and workplaces, as well as of places that inspired them." -DOWN EAST: THE MAGAZINE OF MAINE "...not only a primer for the history of art in Maine, but also a glorious companion for the armchair traveler. No mere coffee table book here, the nearly 250-page volume is lavishly illustrated and chronicles 26 artist of the last 200 years who have lived and worked in Maine." -ANTIQUES AND THE ARTS WEEKLY "If you're looking for a book to pretty up your coffee table, and weigh it down, there are two new art-themed hardcovers being released this week on the occasion of Maine's bicentennial." -CAMDEN HERALD