An Annual Toast to the Coast by Kristin Nord The “Visions of Land and Sea” exhibition at Susan Powell Fine Art Gallery, an annual affair now in its 13th incarnation, has become as eagerly awaited as that annual first swim or cookout on the beach. The Madison, Conn., business has become a must–go place for contemporary art for home owners and businesses, offering its “Whole House Art” for the new art collector, as well as working closely with individual and corporate clients to meet custom needs. Powell brings to the business a lifelong appreciation of art, kindled as a child and developed as an art history major at Connecticut College. In her early years, she honed her skills by working for the Smithsonian Institution, and later was a hugely successful seller at Doyle Auction House in New York City. Then, in 2003, she traveled to Madison on assignment, and fell in love … [Read more...] about Visions of Land and Sea
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Connecticut’s Native Son
Charting Weir's Artistic Evolution by Kristin Nord Julian Alden Weir’s art was shaped, according to collector Duncan Phillips, by a “reticent idealism,” while at the same time reflecting a wide-ranging, inquiring mind. “Home is the starting place,” said Weir, and for four decades he made this “quiet little house among the rocks,” now the Weir Farm National Historic Site, one of two main summer homes. After marriage into the Baker family in Windham, he split his summer months between the farm in Western Connecticut and the Baker farm in what is known as Connecticut’s “Quiet Corner.” Reared in a large, artistic household, he was the youngest son of Robert W. Weir, longtime drawing instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Like his older brother John Ferguson Weir, a painter who was the director at the Yale School of Art for 40 years, J. Alden Weir … [Read more...] about Connecticut’s Native Son