April 21, 2012 - July 15, 2012
PORTLAND, ME - This exhibition will focus on Portland-born artist Mildred Burrage (1890-1983), who as a young aspiring painter traveled in the early 1900s to Giverny, France. There Burrage trained her eye on the landscape, creating oil paintings and filling sketchbooks with her Impressionist style. She wrote copious letters to her family back in Maine, detailing her adventures and providing vivid accounts of the artists, dealers, and distinguished figures whom she encountered, including French artistic legend Claude Monet and avid collectors Gertrude and Leo Stein. While Burrage was a prolific artist up until her death, this exhibition will celebrate these crucial, formative years (1909-1914) when she traveled abroad and was introduced and exposed to modern European movements. Comprised of approximately 70 works of art, including paintings, drawings, and never-before-exhibited letters, this exhibition will reflect a unique time of innocence, ebullience, and optimism in Mildred Burrage’s life and career, and in the American and European psyche before the onset of the First World War.
Mildred Giddings Burrage (1890-1983), A November Day: Brittany, 1912, 1912, oil on canvas, 31 7/8” x 25 1/2”. Gift of the artist. Photo by Melville McLean.
The exhibition is supported by Sally Wallace Rand, William G. Waters, and by Wilmont and Arlene Schwind in honor of Sally Wallace Rand. Corporate sponsorship is provided by The Bear Bookshop, Marlboro, VT.
Be sure to check out this exhibit before July 15th, 2012.
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