Colrain on Canvas ll
Saturday and Sunday, September 25-26
10 am - 4 pm
Shelburne Buckland Community Center
53 Main St, Shelburne Falls, MA
Admission $10
The Colrain Historical Society will present Colrain on Canvas II, with 65 Colrain scenes recently found in private collections.
Most of the works are from private collections in the Hilltowns, many depicting homes and villages in Colrain “as they once were.” The paintings are all different from the last show in 2019.
Artists are both contemporary and deceased, famous and not-so-famous, trained as well as self-taught. It is intentionally a non-curated show: the mixed media, the varying skills of the artists and their perspectives are part of the magic. Among the paintings to be shown is this Griswoldville scene by Colrain native, Maria Miller Kingsley.
In a separate room, prints of some of the show paintings, antique map reproductions, and some contemporary paintings will be available for sale.
Also, there will be a separate side exhibit assembled by Sarah Hollister, “Found at the Conway Dump,” which documents the names and lives of workers in the early Griswold Mill, 1838 to 1842. This material came from a ledger kept at the mill by a 19-year-old accountant of sorts, which was found recently at the Conway dump.
The show is a fundraiser for the Colrain Historical Society.
