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Alger Veazie Currier: Apostle Of The Beaux-Arts In Maine, V. Scott Dimond
Alger Veazie Currier: Apostle Of The Beaux-Arts In Maine, V. Scott Dimond
Maine History
Alger Veazie Currier began a promising career as an artist in Paris when two of his paintings were accepted to the prestigious Salon of 1888. After this moment of glory, Currier returned to his home in Hallowell, at a time when art in Maine was at its most provincial. He brought with him with fresh approach to teaching art and a mission to bring both painters and patrons up to date. During a brief tenure at Bowdoin College, Currier signaled a break from the old- fashioned landscape painting that dominated the Maine art scene. Although his European, Beaux-Arts ideas were …
Music In Early Portland, Donald A. Sears
Music In Early Portland, Donald A. Sears
Maine History
This article reviews the history of music in Portland in the years before 1836.
For Piety, Virtue And Useful Knowledge: Maine’S Eighteenth-Century Academies, Richard G. Durnin
For Piety, Virtue And Useful Knowledge: Maine’S Eighteenth-Century Academies, Richard G. Durnin
Maine History
The article discussed the history of the first private academies in Maine in the later 17th and early 18th centuries.