Janet Knott

Summer at the Portland Museum of Art

by Janet Knott

The Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine never disappoints, especially this summer where an eclectic mix of excellent art graces gallery walls. From “Precious, the Value of Ornament” to a robust collection of painter and etcher, Winslow Homer, these shows are not to be missed.

A red banner reading Art Is Part of a Good Life outside the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine.
Franklin Simmons's marble statue of Ulysses S. Grant, seen from behind beneath a coffered arch at the Portland Museum of Art.
A spiky beaded wall sculpture in greens, pearls, and corals from Precious, the Value of Ornament at the Portland Museum of Art.
A beaded figure spelling out People Like Us across its chest, from Precious, the Value of Ornament at the Portland Museum of Art.
A visitor studies Paul Delvaux's painting The Greeting in a surrealist gallery at the Portland Museum of Art.
A visitor between gilt-framed Impressionist landscapes by Sisley and Monet at the Portland Museum of Art.
Light Waves by Clifford Ross, a computer-generated video on an LED wall, glittering like surf at the Portland Museum of Art.
A close view of Winslow Homer's The Life Line: a rescuer carrying a woman across stormy seas on a breeches buoy.
Winslow Homer's The Life Line hangs beside his related etchings in Winslow Homer, Painter/Etcher at the Portland Museum of Art.
Visitors among the late etchings and lithographs in Winslow Homer, Painter/Etcher at the Portland Museum of Art.
The lobby of the Portland Museum of Art, looking into the Great Hall at the entrance to Winslow Homer, Painter/Etcher.
Winslow Homer's watercolor Leaping Trout, a fish arcing over dark water, at the Portland Museum of Art.