Gleason Fine Art

Thursday, new gallery sculptor Dick Alden installed two natural stone bird baths in the gardens in front of the 31 Townsend Avenue gallery in Boothbay Harbor.

Dick searches areas for stones with special textures, colors, and shapes and then plays with various combinations until a set of stones works well together.  A light polishing of the bowls enhances the beauty of the natural gradations. 

This is the medium sized birdbath.  It retails for $495. 

And this is the large size birdbath.  This size retails for $695.  Please stop by the gallery to see these lovely pieces in person.

May 7 was the opening day for our A Conference of Birds show in Portland.  The First Friday Art Walk was impressively attended, as the weather was warm and beautiful.

New artists included in the show are paintings by David Witbeck, Henry Isaacs, and Murad Sayen, and sculpture by Jeff Barrett and Michael McLaughlin.  Also included are works by our stable of painters including Scott Kelley, Helen St. Clair, Peter Sculthorpe, Kevin Beers, Gayle Fraas and Duncan Slade, Kim and Philippe Villard, Andrea Peters, Genetta McLean, Loretta Krupinski and Brad Betts; sculptors include Don Meserve, Carole Hanson, Cabot Lyford, Ray Carbone, and Scott Stoll.  Leo Brooks, James Fitzgerald, Chenoweth Hall, and Emil Holzhauer round out the estate work included. 

The crowds of people loved this first-ever theme show, which makes us think we’ll make it an annual event.  The show A Conference of Birds is on display at 545 Congress Street, through June 30. 

James Fitzgerald (1899-1971)

 

 

MONHEGAN: 20/21 

Read the wonderful review by Dan Kany in the Sunday, April 18, Maine Sunday Telegram. Kany says, “Gleason’s ‘Monhegan’ gets at what it is about Maine painting.”  Kany has special praise for estate artists James Fitzgerald and Andrew Winter, and contemporary artists Kevin Beers, Scott Kelley, Ralf Feyl, and Henry Isaacs.

Kevin Beers

Ralf Feyl