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.

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