{"id":61,"date":"2008-03-27T22:04:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T03:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2008-05-02T19:27:48","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T00:27:48","slug":"everyday-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Art is everywhere around. Artists are everywhere around, too. Maybe it\u2019s something in the air or the light or the water or the spare, but finest-kind, [sic] lifestyle or the eyes of willing beholders, or something else, but art is part of everyday life in Tenants Harbor. Okay, and Greater St. George, too.<\/p>\n

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\nFigure #9. Lobster buoys, yes. But also a hooked rug pattern?<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the moment, here in Minnesota, I can think of two books that illustrate the point. The first is Monhegan, the Artists’ Island<\/a>,<\/em><\/strong> edited by Will and Jane Curtis. Greater St. George includes Monhegan because the ferry leaves from Port Clyde. Monhegan is an artists\u2019 island because a lot of artists have and do live there. It is a wonderful place where people sit on the rocks and paint the water then move to the schoolhouse lawn and applaud the sunset. Monhegan, The Artists\u2019 Island<\/em> is a big, handsome book that tells the story of the Island with local art, usually paintings, used to make whatever points need making.<\/p>\n

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\nFigure #10. Marshall Point Rocks and Wildflowers, yes. But also a Shetland gray wool sweater with a spiky gold\/green border and sea blue neck ribbing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The other book with everyday art is publisher David Godine\u2019s edition of The Country of the Pointed Firs<\/a>\"\"<\/strong><\/em>, with black and white drawings by Douglas Alvord. I know a Mainer who is sure he knows the people in the drawings. Sometimes — rarely — he is more sure than right, but I like the idea too much to quibble.<\/p>\n

Monhegan, the Artists’ Island<\/a><\/em>. Edited by Will and Jane Curtis. Camden, ME: Down East Publications <\/strong><\/p>\n

Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Country of the Pointed Firs<\/a>\"\"<\/em> Drawings by Douglas Alvord. Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, Publisher<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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