Greetings!
Your Drawing "Encourager" is back from the great Pacific Northwest, and I will have more warm-ups and the "Technique of the Week" to get us drawing this week.
My vision for "Drawing Together" is a safe place (judgement and self-criticism left at the door) wherre we remind ourselves:
"We are practicing and building our skills."
More items of interest follow, plus a drawing by Merren inspired by the Pacific Northwest.
Enjoy!
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Talk on Pioneering Maine Botanist and Artist Catherine Furbish
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South Berwick, Maine -- A century ago, a woman doing solitary fieldwork throughout Maine discovered the slender blue flag, Iris prismatica, which exists today in Maine only in Wells. This plant was just one of more than 1000 found and painted in watercolors by Catherine Furbish, as she did her work from York to Aroostook Counties.
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Nancy Wetzel of South Berwick will give a talk at 7:30 pm Thursday, October 25, about the life of Furbish, a dedicated botanist, scientific artist and founding member of Maine's Josselyn Botanical Society.
The program, sponsored by the Old Berwick Historical Society, will be at Berwick Academy's Jeppesen Science Center on Academy Street. The public is invited and refreshments will be served.
Furbish lived from 1834 to 1931, most of that time in Brunswick. ~Her lifework, "The Flora of Maine," is a collection of watercolor paintings of flowering plants that she found when doing arduous, solitary fieldwork across the entire length of the state.
More information on all the Old Berwick Historical Society's programs is available at info@oldberwick.org, or by calling (207) 384-0000.
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University of New Hampshire's
MUSEUM of ART
Upcoming Exhibition
October 27 - December 9, 2012 (Closed November 12 and 21-25)
Opening reception: Friday, Oct. 26, 6-8 p.m.
Working Model: Figurative Drawings and Sculptures from the Collection
Carter Gallery
This exhibition features figurative drawings and sculptures from the Museum's permanent collection to examine the many and varied ways artists have represented the human form from the early 20th century to the present. Approximately 18 works of art have been selected to illuminate different approaches to working from a live model.
Following the opening reception, the Museum, in collaboration with the Department of Theatre and Dance, presents the Human Fruit Bowl (Hennessey Theatre, 8:30 p.m., free, adult content, contains nudity). Written by Andrea Kuchlewska, the one-perosn show delves into the relationship between French painter Pierre Bonnard and his model and lover Renee Monchaty.
Barbara Swan: Portraits and Still Lifes
Scudder Gallery
Barbara Swan (1922-2003), a well-known Boston artist whose still lifes were widely exhibited and collected beginning in the mid 1960s began her career in the late 1940s as a student of noted Boston Expressionist, Karl Zerbe. This exhibition provides a historical overview of Swan's artistic career, tracing her early work from the late 1940s, her expressive paintings as a new mother and drawings of her friends and fellow artists in the 1960s, to the subject that would dominate her later work: objects transformed through water-filled bottles.
  
Barbara Swan images: Bottles and Keys,1985,oil on linen, 40" x 30", courtesy of Alpha Gallery; Red House, n.d.,oil on linen, 42" x 50"; Bottles and Spoons, 1973,
watercolor, 20" x 15". Collection of the Museum of Art, UNH, 1975.504
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