Welcome to our
Gallery overlooking beautiful and historic Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
We are delighted to present impressions of the Maine coast and countryside
and committed to exhibiting work created by emerging artists in
an atmosphere anchored by experienced artists with a strong emphasis
on painters in the style of the Cape Cod School of Art.
The Cape Cod School of Art can trace itself
back to the very beginnings of impressionism. Lois Griffel, an artist,
author and educator, is the most resent director. Her teacher and
predecessor was Henry Hensche, a brilliant colorist and demanding
teacher. Hensche replaced Charles Hawthorne, the schools founder
and a student of William Merit Chase, who was a protégé of Monet.
Hawthorne developed a concept of teaching
the Impressionists vision of the world, but it was Henry Hensche
who took Hawthorne’s ideas, perfected them and developed them into
an instruction method that emphasized the ability to see the colors
that surround us and then place spots of these colors onto the canvas
to capture the nature of the light at that very moment. Every plane
change is represented by a color change. Every type of weather at
every time of day or year can have its own individual color key.
The artist must first be capable of seeing these subtle color changes
and then put them down on canvas. That’s the nature of impressionism
seeing light and placing spots of color on canvas in the creation
of a painting.
The Gallery at Boothbay Harbor is proud
to be a very tiny piece of that tradition. and is equally proud
to be able to offer a gallery opportunity to emerging artists who
work the style of the Cape Cod School. We look for painters with
little or no gallery experience, who have studied the genre and
welcome those experienced impressionists carrying on the Hensche
tradition.
Please visit beautiful Boothbay Harbor
and stop by The Gallery while you’re here.