The Writer Bruce Discovered in Art

 The Writer Bruce Discovered 
in Art

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Some Maine Writers
detail - Bruce McMillan in green strip

Carl Little discovered the writer Bruce McMillan's name in Dan Mills' painting, Some Maine Writers. It features one hundred and two Maine writers, color coded by half century, with the first letter of their name somewhat near their locale, and Thoreau's journeys in silver and gold. I was pleased an honored to be included.

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Some Maine Writers
Dan Mills (1956- ), American
2017
Acrylic, ink and metallic paint
on digitally altered map, 26" x 37" (w x h), 2017
Dan Mills website page for this is HERE
 Dan Mills website is HERE

Carl Little wrote a review of Dan Mills: Human Topographies, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (21 Winter Street, Rockland, Maine), 2019 seen on Hyperallergic HERE and if the images don't load it's also a PDF HERE.

Source: artist's website, edited
Dan Mills (1956- ), Waterloo, NY had concurrent parallel careers for many years, as a painter and mixed media artist and curator and academic museum director. He turned to his studio practice in 2024. In 2019, he had a solo museum exhibition originating at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, which traveled to the Museum of Art, UNH, Durham, NH; and Herron Galleries, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN in 2020. His work is found in collections including: the British Library, London; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago; JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York; Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine; University of Richmond Museums, and academic institutions throughout the U.S. He lives and works in Lewiston, Maine.

Small world. While reading about Dan Mills, I realized that I'd had a nice long chat with him, running into him in the quiet Bates gallery, before he retired from the Bates College Museum of Art. It was at the Bates 2024 exhibition of Marsden Hartley / Edward Hopper: Drawings from Two New England Collections. Never connected him, as the museum director, to his art, until now.