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...clear tour de force of the exhibit is the surprisingly complete array of work by Watts, including early drawings and paintings, mail-order newsletters and found objects. Just as Kaprow's early paintings revealed abstract expressionist beginnings, so too do Watts's "Blink" and "Monhegan" drawings...
Nevertheless, some of Bellows' finest paintings were set on an island at the farthest possible remove from Manhattan: Monhegan, on the Maine coast, where his idol Winslow Homer had also painted. Though born and raised in Ohio, Bellows had coastal roots -- his grandfather was a whaler at Montauk on the eastern tip of New York's Long Island -- and the Atlantic was as fundamental a source of imaginative nourishment to him as it had been to Melville or Whitman. "We two and the great sea," he wrote to his wife in a moment of romantic exaltation, "and the mighty rocks...
Phoenician traders and Egyptian miners became part of the Wabanaki tribe in New England, Fell says, and the script used by an Algonquin tribe, the Micmacs, is derived directly from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Fell says there is an inscription on Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine that reads (in Celtic Ogam) "Cargo platform for ships from Phoenecia...
...inadequacies and weaknesses just blare out at you," complained the young artist as he viewed his own one-man show at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Me. Jamie Wyeth, 23, Andrew's talented and modest son, had hitched a ride with a lobsterman from his home on Monhegan Island, and almost wished he hadn't come. Even his 1967 portrait of the late John F. Kennedy was disappointing in retrospect. "I'm terribly unsatisfied with it," said Jamie, who never saw J.F.K. in the flesh and completed the portrait from photographs and extensive sketches of the President...
...museums, but it was not until he got back home that his own work seemed to take on meaning. Gussow found his inspiration in the countryside most familiar to him-the hills and valleys around Congers, N.Y., where he bought a house, and the sea around Maine's Monhegan Island, where he spends his summers. "I guess I'm really a provincial painter." he says. "I don't need to travel. I paint best right here...