Art Essay - Casco Bay Ferries

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 Art Essay on the

Casco Bay Island Ferries

The Portland, Maine Harbor ferries have a distinctive visual color scheme with yellow and white, red trim, black hull, on the blue bay. This is an essay on how four artists see those ferries and four other artists simply focus in the abstract on those same colors, yellow, white, red, black, and blue.

1
Title unknown
The Machigonne II Peaks Island Ferry
Paul Brahms (1963- ), American
Oil on canvas, 20" 16" (w x h), 2024
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, 1986
The artist's website HERE. More art HERE.

2
Seascape
Roy Lichtenstein, (1923-1997), American
Lithograph, woodcut, and screenprint, 53" x 27" (w x h), 1985
Edition 60, printed and published by Gemini G.E.L.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

3
Portland Ferry Reflection
Sarah Knock (1948- ), American
Oil on canvas, 20" x 28" (w x h), 2022
11th Portland Biennial Show,
Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
The artist's website is HERE.

4

Untitled (Geometric Abstraction)
John McLaughlin (1898-1976), American
Oil on composition board, 38" x 32" (w x h), 1953
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

5
Ferry Boat, Portland, Maine Harbor
George Anderson (1931- ) Canadian/American
Acrylic on canvas, 22" x 26" (w x h)
Anderson Gallery, Portland, ME
For sale: $ 2,500 USD
The artist's website is HERE.

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Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Dutch
Oil on canvas, 22" x 24" (w x h), 1937-42
MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

7
Workers
Norma Johnsen (1939- ), American
Oil on canvas, 12" x 16" (w x h), 2020
The artist lives and paints on Peaks Island.

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Composition of Red, Blue, Yellow and White: Nom III
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Dutch
Screenprint in colors, 17" x 17" (w x h), 1967
from A Portfolio of Ten Paintings, edition of 150
For sale: $5,800 USD

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