tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post4051265545539016973..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: My first year in RockportStapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-27788133749467907962009-08-27T19:23:25.536-04:002009-08-27T19:23:25.536-04:00Jan:
It was very tourtisty then, thats why the art...Jan:<br />It was very tourtisty then, thats why the artists were there. Those tourists came and bought art.But the art colonys all over America are either reduced in size or turned into commercial wonderlands with lots of galleries but none run by artists. That was always what made Rockport unique.<br />..............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-81372557558538625932009-08-27T19:20:01.830-04:002009-08-27T19:20:01.830-04:00Mary;
I do know that area, although that is at th...Mary;<br /> I do know that area, although that is at the southern end of my usual Maine painting circuit.I have painted Bailys island. I have passe the lighthouse on the breakwater in Rockland many times when on the ferry to Vinalhaven, but I haver never painted out there.<br />For you readers from Sweden and Singapore,Lancastershire and Australia we are talking about the Penobscot Bay area of the coast of Maine. It is an art historically rich area and has many great places to paint. It is a great place to take your easel,from Rockland to Bar Harbor<br />....StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-77212767338249333082009-08-27T19:16:50.660-04:002009-08-27T19:16:50.660-04:00I find myself wishing I had a time machine to visi...I find myself wishing I had a time machine to visit Rockport 20,30,or 40 years ago! Your descriptions make it sound so much more quaint than it is today! And a bit more "real" in the sense of it being an artist colony. <br /><br />It's still a fun town to visit,but very tourist-y. I was in a gallery there for a few years which unfortunately is now closed.<br /><br />The back of windows of the gallery overlooked Motif no.1 Everytime I went up there I always felt as if I were treading on scared art history ground.<br /><br />Oh, and the best lobster omlette I ever had was at The Greenery restaurant.Jan Blencowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12436446226095902175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-32471966700321558202009-08-27T19:11:04.379-04:002009-08-27T19:11:04.379-04:00Marian:
When I had my galleries there, I heard sim...Marian:<br />When I had my galleries there, I heard similar things a lot. For many years Boston and New England went to Rockport to meet the artists. There is still a little of that left but it is a lot smaller than it was.<br />.............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-53578385329881815782009-08-27T19:08:38.560-04:002009-08-27T19:08:38.560-04:00Philip:
We have all taken different roads. I don&#...Philip:<br />We have all taken different roads. I don't think I could have done the academic route. I do enjoy teaching workshops but I want to limit the amount of teaching I do to a certain percentage. It is all irrelevant for me anyway because I am not an art school graduate. I couldn't get a job teaching at the local junior college.<br />Given the current economy, I think you made a sound decision.<br />.................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-51547667749663751622009-08-27T16:04:03.347-04:002009-08-27T16:04:03.347-04:00Stape - I just got back from a trip up the coast o...Stape - I just got back from a trip up the coast of Maine - went to Rockland - saw the exhibit by Jamie Wyeth "Seven Deadly Sins" that absolutely BLEW MY MIND!! - saw the house where "Christinas's World" was painted - went to Baily Island (I think you said that you painted there), walked out on the mile long breakwater in Rockland Harbor (have you painted there?) - went to Pemaquid Point. Had a BLAST and am ready to paint - so much to paint up here.Mary Bullockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09718356993209078250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-7798538742207310192009-08-27T08:40:36.158-04:002009-08-27T08:40:36.158-04:00Hi Stapleton,
That painting of the Rockport Winter...Hi Stapleton,<br />That painting of the Rockport Winter Roofs really moves me visually and emotionally. I've always admired it on your site. Rockport was a magical place for me when I was a child. It's the first place I saw living artists.What a revelation! Up to then the only art I had been shown was at the then free MFA.mariandioguardi.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16963944767715466681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-52591599934509333072009-08-27T07:22:02.835-04:002009-08-27T07:22:02.835-04:00Great post. It's funny but I've never been...Great post. It's funny but I've never been to Rockport, having always assumed it is just another overdeveloped tourist town. But the affectionate reminiscence Stape draws for us here makes me want make the trip. Certainly the coast just north of Boston served as the source for some mighty fine paintings in American art history.<br /><br />Funny too how different the paths we all take are. I had a child when I was still in graduate school, and boy does that make one cautious about the sometimes unsteady employment Stape describes. But I was fortunate to get a position teaching painting at a good university right after my MFA program in 1972 and took it. Still teaching, now on the east coast. But I have kept my nose to the grind stone and done a whale of a lot of painting over the years. And any painter can and should take real pride in that.<br /><br />It's just fascinating to me to read about someone else's journey, in some ways similar and in others so different than mine.Philip Kochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05191070779177407750noreply@blogger.com