Maine The painted state
March 6 - April 26, 2025
Opening reception, Saturday, March 8, 1-3pm
Greenhut’s biennial landscape show, Maine: The Painted State, is both a proud nod to Maine’s storied and outsized place in American Art History, and a celebration of the exciting ways the landscape tradition continues. How it is being carried on, and in some cases, reinvented, by contemporary Maine artists.
Maine has been an artist magnet for over 100 years. The allure of its rugged coastline and the romance of the sea, its lakes and islands, its wild beauty and isolation and, of course, the distinctive qualities of its northern light have captivated generations of painters. Our landscape has been celebrated -- mythologized, really -- in classic works by some of the greatest painters in American Art History, from Thomas Cole to Frederick Church to Winslow Homer to Andrew Wyeth, Marsden Hartley, Neil Welliver, and beyond.
But the magic of Maine’s landscape is not a finite quantity, confined to a specific period. It is, in fact, eternal and Maine remains a vital locus of artistic inspiration, coursing with creative energy. Our April biennial, “Maine, the Painted State,” is a celebration of the exciting ways the landscape tradition continues.