Art of Acadia

David Little, a resident of Portland, Maine, has been painting the Maine landscape since 1983, and has always been drawn to rugged Katahdin wilderness. He attended the Skowhegan School in 1981 and 1982, and was a recipient of the Carina House fellowship on Monhegan in 1998. Little is represented by Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth and by Thomas Moser Cabinetmakers in Freeport. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Blaine House, Bates College Museum of Art, and the Farnsworth Museum. Little’s experience in the art world is broad—he spent ten years working at the Bayview Gallery in Portland, and he gives critiques, juries art shows, and curates. This is his first book.Carl Little is the author of more than a dozen art books, including The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper's New England, and The Art of Dahlov Ipcar. He has also published articles and reviews of art in such magazines as Art in America, Art New England and Down East. He serves as the director of marketing and communication at the Maine Community Foundation and he lives on Mount Desert Island, Maine.

• Table of Contents ForewordArt of Acadia: A Centennial CelebrationPurpose of book: to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of Acadia National Park through the artists who have found their muse in the greater Mount Desert Island region. 2-4 imagesIntroductionArriving at AcadiaShort personal essay about how the authors came to Acadia 6-8 images Pre(r)ambleAcadia: The Lay of the Island Description of the area: location in Maine, physical features, allure, with maps, aerial views, silhouettes, stereoscope views8-12 images Part 1: 17th-19th CenturyEarliest depictions and first artistsNative Americans, DeBry engraving (1627), English Pilot silhouette (1760), F. Graeter hand-colored lithographs (1836), etc. Paintings by Thomas Doughty, Alvin Fisher 16-18 imagesHudson River SchoolFrederic Church (1826-1900) at MDI (1850- 1865), with his contemporaries and later 19th-century artists: Thomas Cole, Fitz Henry Lane, William Stanley Haseltine, Sanford R. Gifford, Jervis McEntee, et al. 25 imagesLate 19th-Century Illustration and ArtGuidebooks, adventure stories, engravings, drawings, photographs, paintings, stereoscopic views, etc. 25 images Part 2: 20th Century Acadia National ParkCarriage trails, bridges, gardens, scenic views (includes the Champlain Society, artist-in-residence program, etc.)25 imagesCarroll Sargent TysonImpressionist painter 10-12 images 20th-Century ArtistsJohn Singer Sargent, Dwight Blaney, Childe Hassam, Marguerite Zorach, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Maurice Freedman, et al., plus 2-4 pages on cartographers 40 imagesFigures of Island LiteratureExcerpts of poetry and prose, with short bios of 10-15 authors 5 imagesTIPS—The Three Islesford PaintersH. B. Warren, C. Scott White, and C. E. Kinkead 20 imagesArtists of Great Cranberry IslandPostwar generation: Heliker, LaHotan, Kienbusch, Campbell, Nelson, et al. 20 images Part 3: Acadia Contemporary 1970-2015Artists of AcadiaFull range of interpretations of the island90-120 images Afterword Portrait GallerySelected bibliographyAcknowledgements Index