Scenes of Colrain Painting Exhibit

"Colrain on Canvas" 

Sat. and Sun., April 13 and 14, 2019

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Guided tours at 11 am and 2 pm

Shelburne-Buckland Community Center

53 Main Street

Shelburne Falls, MA

Suggested contribution is $10 for adults, children under 12 free. 

 For more information call (413) 624-8800.

Artists:

E.Russell Alexander
Martha Hollister Aschmann
Joseph Baker
Minnie Barnes
Bertha Bates

Joan Boryta
Nord Bowlen
John Braudis
Marion Bray
Althea Brigham

David Brewster
Lois Buell
Fred Burrington
Francis Coburn
Prentice Crosier

Raymond Ewing
Alice Gammell
Donald Greason
Pauline Howard
Carl Ennis

Hale Johnson
Antoinette Kendrick
James Lister
Marshall Looman
Steve Maniatty

Ellen Miller
M. H. Morse
Robert Olson
Pacifico Palumbo
Evelyn Coombs Pennegar

Myrtle Fish Purington
Fred Romberg
Laurie Seamans
JoAnne Sherburne
Eugenia W. Snow

W. Lester Stevens
George Gardner Symons
Ida Waslaske

Colrain on Canvas: A Pictorial Portrait

April 13 and 14, 2019

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Shelburne-Buckland Community Center

53 Main Street

Shelburne Falls, MA

The Colrain Historical Society will present “Colrain on Canvas: A Pictorial Portrait,” an exhibition of some 40 oils and watercolors by 24 artists from early 19th Century to the present at the Shelburne-Buckland Community Center.

Regionalist artists such as W. Lester Stevens, Gardner Symons, Stephen Maniatty and A. Hale Johnson, along with talented local painters, all found inspiration in the landscape and villages of this picturesque town in the hills of western Massachusetts. These paintings, almost all from private collections, are rarely (if ever) seen.

W. Lester Stevens (1888-1969), Colrain Center, late 1940s, oil on canvas, 32” x 26”

A prolific painter, W. Lester Stevens founded the Rockport Art Association in 1921, and painted Vinalhaven, Lubec and Campobello Island, as well as Grand Manan Island. In 1944 he moved to Conway, MA, where he continued to explore his view of New England until almost the final day of his life.

The Shelburne-Buckland Community Center is located at 53 Main Street in Shelburne Falls. Exhibit hours will be 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Suggested contribution is $10 for adults, children under 12 free. For more information call (413) 624-8800.