Vincent Hartgen’s Maine Legacy
Vincent Andrew Hartgen: His Art and Legacy (Wildflower Lane Publishing, Twin Falls, Idaho, 2008. $55 softcover) is an affectionate and appreciative attempt by the artist’s sons David and Stephen along with Maine art critic Carl Little to document the life’s work of one of the icons of Maine art. Vincent Hartgen (1914-2002) was a fine […]
Variations on a Birch Bark Theme, 1997, by Vincent Hartgen, UMMA, Bangor
Vincent Andrew Hartgen: His Art and Legacy (Wildflower Lane Publishing, Twin Falls, Idaho, 2008. $55 softcover) is an affectionate and appreciative attempt by the artist’s sons David and Stephen along with Maine art critic Carl Little to document the life’s work of one of the icons of Maine art. Vincent Hartgen (1914-2002) was a fine watercolorist, a popular teacher at the University of Maine in Orono, and the founder of the University of Maine Museum of Art
In 2006, the Hartgen brothers published their mother’s memoir of the artistic life, A Maine Passage by Frances Caroline Hartgen, but this ambitious new family publishing venture is a 258-page survey and catalogue raisonn
Edgar Allen Beem
Take a look at art in New England with Edgar Allen Beem. He’s been art critic for the Portland Independent, art critic and feature writer for Maine Times, and now is a freelance writer for Yankee, Down East, Boston Globe Magazine, The Forecaster, and Photo District News. He’s the author of Maine Art Now (1990) and Maine: The Spirit of America (2000).
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