Word: ogunquit
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...Painter Alexander Brook, the first goal of an artist should be "to make each work more magical than the one before." This gets harder as a man gets older. But last week in the summer port of Ogunquit, Me., a new one-man show of 31 paintings by Brook shows that the magic has been pretty well distributed over a long lifetime. The show reaches back to 1924, ranges in subject from an affectionate portrait of a puppy, to broad, brooding landscapes, to snapshots of young girls caught at some moment of loneliness. Brook is a lusty personality who uses...
Pause Between a Breath. He is out of the public eye these days, neglected by the chichi but not forgotten. The excellent little new museum in Ogunquit, run by Painter Henry Strater, has in past years given similar one-man shows to Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and Andrew Wyeth. As an artist, Brook respects such innovators as his fellow Long Islander, the late Jackson Pollock, the master dripper. The people Brook resents are those faddists who promote abstract art and will enthuse about nothing else. He also has an oldster's dismissing attitude toward those younger artists...
...Ogunquit, Me., Ogunquit Playhouse: World premiere and pre-Broadway run of There Must Be a Pony, by Jim Kirkwood Jr., starring Myrna Loy as a sort of West Coast Auntie Mame...
...Ogunquit, Me., Ogunquit Playhouse: Here Today, with Tallulah Bankhead and Estelle Winwood...
Slightly farther from the Square (about two to three hours driving) are beaches in the nearby states of Maine and Rhode Island. The water is cold but brisk in Old Orchard and Ogunquit Maine, and Narrangansett, Newport, and Misquamicut, Rhode Island have fine swimming facilities...