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DeWitt Hardy

DeWitt Hardy is nationally known for his watercolors, drawings and set designs. He has had 16 one man shows in New York City and has pieces in over 35 museum collections including the Farnsworth, Portland Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Smithsonian, and the Library of Congress. An Art History major at Syracuse University, DeWitt founded the well-known North Berwick figure-drawing group. He is featured in American Realism published by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. DeWitt is affiliated with Serge Sorokko Gallery, New York; Frost Gully Gallery, Freeport; and the Mast Cove Gallery, Kennebunkport.

Marylin Quint-Rose

Marylin Quint-Rose graduated from Wheelock College with a degree in Education and received her MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. In the late 1960’s, while teaching at the School of the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, she discovered the possibilities of working with handmade paper, and since it has become her primary medium. Dedicated to art and teaching, Quint-Rose has directed numerous workshops and residencies in design, collage and papermaking for children and adults throughout New England. She has also bee a frequent guest lecturer at the university level. Her work has been shown throughout New York and New England and is collected by several corporations and museums, including the Portland Museum of Art. In 1992 Quint-Rose was one of only ten Americans selected to show at the Leopold-Hoesch Museum in Dueren, Germany, a contemporary museum dedicated to the exhibition of paper art. Quint-Rose has won numerous awards for her work. She is listed in the Smithsonian Archives, Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in American Education. Recent solo exhibitions: Wheelock College Art Gallery, 2003 (Boston, MA); Art Cellar Exchange, 2002 (Boston, MA); O’Farrell Gallery, 2001 (Brunswick, ME).

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Marvel Wynn
(1915-2002)

Marvel Wynn received her first oil paint set at the age of 14, and began seriously studying art at the Margaret Morrison School at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon) in Pittsburgh. She later studied at the Cleveland Art Institute, taking classes with John Tyrol, one of her favorite painters; she also studied with figure painters Sigmund Abeles and Jan DeRuth. Marvel painted primarily figures of women, although a man, a landscape or a seascape could occasionally draw her attention, and was greatly influenced by artists Gustav Klimpt and Will Barnet. Her works have appeared in the National Painting Show at the Butler Institute of Art in Youngstown, Ohio; the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine; in one-person shows at Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine), the Performing Arts Center and the Portland Ballet Company (both in Portland, Maine); and at the Mast Cove Gallery in Kennebunkport, Maine, for 22 years, including several one-person shows. In 1975, Marvel received the International Women’s Year Award for “Outstanding Cultural Contributions and Dedication to Women and Art.”

Joe Kievitt

Joe Kievitt graduated with a B.F.A in Painting from the Maine College of Art and received his Masters of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parsons School of Design in New York City. His work has lately appeared at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockport, ME), “Past/Present/Future A 50th Anniversary Celebration” in 2002; the Summertime Group Show in 2002 at the Miller Block Gallery (Boston, MA); the Portland Museum of Art Biennial 2001 (Portland, ME); and the Group Show of Gallery’s Artists, Paul Thiebaud Gallery (San Francisco, CA), 2001. Recent solo exhibitions include Miller Block Gallery, 2002 (Boston); Paul Thiebaud Gallery, 2002 (San Francisco); and Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, 2000 (Laguna Beach, CA). In 2001, Joe received the Purchase Prize at the 2001 Portland Museum of Art Biennial; he was a 1995 recipient of the Carina House Fellowship on Monhegan Island, Maine, sponsored by the Farnsworth Museum (Rockland, ME).