Beers and Gordon shows open at Gleason Fine Art
Jean Swan Gordon’s 26” x 40” watercolor entitled, “Mixed Bouquet” is one of the works in the late artist’s show, “Selections From the Estate,” now being exhibited at Gleason Fine Art. The Boothbay Harbor gallery’s second show displays the talents of Kevin Beers “The View From Here.” Courtesy of Gleason Fine Art
Kevin Beers’ “Stars and Stripes,” oil on canvas, 36 x 36.
Jean Swan Gordon’s 26” x 40” watercolor entitled, “Mixed Bouquet” is one of the works in the late artist’s show, “Selections From the Estate,” now being exhibited at Gleason Fine Art. The Boothbay Harbor gallery’s second show displays the talents of Kevin Beers “The View From Here.” Courtesy of Gleason Fine Art
Kevin Beers’ “Stars and Stripes,” oil on canvas, 36 x 36.
Gleason Fine Art of Boothbay Harbor has two shows running concurrently now through July 28: Kevin Beers: The View from Here and Jean Swan Gordon: Selections from the Estate. The public is invited to an opening reception for the shows on Friday, July 3 from 5-7 p.m.
In the fall of 2014, Kevin Beers did something he had long dreamed of doing—he packed up his Park Slope, Brooklyn, apartment and moved to Maine to become a full-time resident. Beers and his wife Amy rented the Rockland home of a Monhegan friend and spent the winter of 2014-2015 hunting for their dream house. They found it on a Thomaston side street—an antique white farmhouse with a barn big enough for two studios. In mid-July, Beers will head out to his beloved Monhegan Island.
For his 2015 summer show, Beers has given the gallery not only his typical Monhegan Island panoramas and landscapes but also a half dozen sparkling winter paintings done on site in Rockland as well as several dazzling sunset views of Pemaquid. For Beers’ many fans of his truck and car paintings, this year’s show contains a special treat—“Stars and Stripes,” a majestic rendition of a familiar Route 90 sight, an old truck painted with red, white, and blue stars and stripes.
In life, Jean Swan Gordon was admired as much for the lovely person that she was as for her exquisite paintings. Crowned by her glorious and abundant silver hair and radiating warmth, Gordon graciously accepted her role as one of the Boothbay region’s most popular artists. When Gordon died in 2013, she left behind a large selection of her floral still-lifes. Gleason Fine Art is very pleased to have been asked by the Gordon Family Trust to be one of the galleries to represent Jean Gordon’s estate.
Even as a child, Jean Swan Gordon loved to make art. Considered a child prodigy, she continued painting throughout her lifetime, even at the age of 91, her last year of life. Although well trained in portraiture, it is her joyous and remarkable floral still-lifes for which Gordon is best known.
Gordon loved to garden. Combining this love of gardening with her love of painting just made sense. She grew her own flowers, gathering loose, brilliantly colored arrangements of them in glass bowls and pitchers. Gordon’s sure hand and keen eye for color mark her as a master at what she did.
Summer hours at the gallery, located at 31 Townsend Avenue, are Monday - Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information, call 207-633-6849; email: info@gleasonfineart.com; or visit www.gleasonfineart.com.
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