Marsden Hartley's Maine

We were touring colleges in Maine, when we happened on the Colby Museum of Art in Waterville.  They had an exhibit of the painter and poet of Maine native Marsden Hartley, which we very much enjoyed.

I. Lighthouses

I had recently toured Maine Lighthouses with my Dad;

so found this painting interesting!

Portland Head Light

From our recent visit

II. Landscape

Impressionistic and pontillistic style clearly seen

"Ice Hole"

Hartley himself was apparantely not a fan of tourism in his home state, 

writing of Maine’s nickname, “Vacationland,” that “the word shivers down the spine.”

Sorry Sir!  We were just visiting a couple of colleges in your State ... !

III. Colby Museum

One of the employees was a philosphy major (Ben); 

had quite the discussion with him on the limits of linguistic philosophy and 

whether Eastern philosophy ran the risk of solipsism

IV. Other Notable Works

Maya Lin is the architect of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in DC.

She created this graphic of the Florida Kissemmee River with pins.

V. The familiar and comforting

Norman Rockwell, Remington and Others

VI. Poem:  CONFIDENCE

By Marsden Hartley

WE'LL have the sun now,'
the quaking sea gulls said
'We've run the gamut of the thundering sea,
one by one one by one,
and though the wave is full of bread
a wing is often tendon-weary
of a thing so varied-vast;
we do our geodetic surveillance,
for herring are a shining thing,
a shape of sleek imagining,
a pretty circumstance.
The shiver of an ash leaf and of pine
makes other music for a day's determining,
even sea gulls love the shape of roses
ere day closes.'