‘From Ship To Shore’ At Potter & Slack Fine Art

MARBLEDALE — On Saturday, September 20, Potter & Slack Fine Art will open “From Ship to Shore,” an exhibition of paintings, pastels and watercolors by four generations of artists who celebrate the delights of the water’s edge and the seagoing life. An inaugural reception will be at the gallery from 4 to 7 pm that day.

One of the older artists represented is Frederick Judd Waugh (1861-1940), who lived for a time in Kent, and whose work was the subject of a retrospective earlier this year at The Cape Museum of Fine Arts in Dennis, Mass. Waugh’s “The Green Surf” is a small but powerful oil painting of waves crashing against a rocky coastline.

Reynolds Beal (1866-1951), who painted in Cape Ann, Mass., is represented by a watercolor of “Victorian Beach” from 1928 and a pastel and ink entitled “Sailing Off Lighthouse” from 1945. Beal was a yachtsman as well as an artist. Critic and curator Mahonri Sharp Young once remarked the artist “lived in a salt water world.”

Among the contemporary artists represented are Curtis W. Hanson and George Van Hook, who depict the fishing villages, beaches and rocky promontories of the New England seacoast, and distinguished Maine artist Thomas Cornell, who has contributed “Harpswell in July,” an evocative oil painting of a favorite Maine beach with white cottages along an embankment and children playing in tidal pools.

Other painters are John A. Cook, Arthur Vidal Diehl, William K. Kavanecks, Frank Metz and Alfred Perry.

“From Ship to Shore” will continue through November 16 at Potter & Slack, located between New Milford and Litchfield on Route 202, next to Earl J. Slack Antiques. Hours are Saturday and Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm, and by appointment. For information call Ron Potter at 860-868-3245 or Virginia Bush, 860-927-3684.