Meet Joel Babb, the painter of Boston who lives deep in the woods of Maine

Meet Joel Babb, the painter of Boston who lives deep in the woods of Maine

The Museum of Fine Arts recently acquired one of his cityscapes.

by Bob Keyes, staff writer

“Bernd Heinrich’s Brook,” 40 by 52 inches. “Nature is relatively untended in the Maine woods,” Babb wrote.

SUMNER — It was on the streets of Rome where Joel Babb became a painter, and it was above the streets of Boston where he became a master. But it was deep in the Maine woods, where he’s been coming since 1971 for solitude, light and air, that Babb became a Renaissance man.

A modern master of vision and technique, Babb combines the traditions of European masters with his own contemporary sensibilities to create large-scale, near photo-realistic oil paintings of complex cityscapes, the tangled woods of his western Maine home and the austere Down East coast.

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