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August 24, 2008
Ben Shattuck is a gifted young painter, recently graduated from Cornell University with his BFA in painting. In addition, he has studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and spent a year studying in Rome. Ben is the son of Bill and Dedee Shattuck of South Dartmouth, and has benefited from his parents' deep-seated interests in the arts, and his father's success as a career artist.
August 22, 2008
A battered doll with tangled blond curls and hypnotic blue eyes. A mourning woman seated by the Ganges River, wrapped in fluttering white gauze. Ghostly figures moving among the skeletal remains of the Lincoln Park roller coaster.
Jane Tuckerman's camera reveals glimpses of worlds beyond our own, both earthly and unearthly. In "Haunted," her solo exhibit now on view at the New Bedford Art Museum, photographs and collages of objects and scenes tell tales of the past, presenting physical evidence of lives once lived.
June 21, 2008
The American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA) is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a traveling exhibition of work by more than 100 contemporary marine artists. One of the largest and most ambitious exhibitions of its kind, the show opened at the Chase Center on the Riverfront, in Wilmington, Delaware, on May 16 and is running through July 6 before continuing its tour of other East Coast venues, which concludes in September 2009. Following its stay in Delaware, the show will be on display at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, in St. Michael's, Maryland; The Noyes Museum of Art, in Oceanville, New Jersey; the Spartanburg Art Museum, in Spartanburg, South Carolina; and the New Bedford Art Museum, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. An illustrated catalogue will be available for purchase at each venue, as well as through the society's website.
Dartmouth Chronicle
June 11, 2008
When first walking into Jane Tuckerman's art studio in South Dartmouth one feels an overwhelming sense of intrigue drawn from all her worldly treasures.
Retrofitted from an old church, Ms. Tuckerman's studio is stuffed with dolls, figurines, and crafts from around the globe, all varying in sizes and shapes the way New England rocks do in a field.
March 20, 2008
You can go on an Easter egg hunt of sorts by visiting the New Bedford Art Museum this weekend.
Among the beautiful, intriguing and historical artifacts on display in "Paper Cuts, Pottery and Primitives: Polish Folk and Decorative Arts," is a collection of decorated Easter eggs representing a number of variations on the craft.
February 15, 2008
To explain his choice of colors and patterns, landscape painter Severin Haines says simply, "Nature is the teacher."
December 21, 2007
"There's always a story inside a piece of wood."
Furniture artist Stephen Whittlesey, whose latest series is currently on view in a solo show at the New Bedford Art Museum, believes his task is to tap into that story.
November 29, 2007
It's Christmastime in the city — and the city celebrates five of its holiday traditions this weekend:
- The New Bedford Art Museum's seventh annual Festival of Trees gala begins at 6 p.m. Saturday.
August 21, 2007
The New Bedford Art Museum's current show, "Charles Henry Gifford, 1839-1904: An Artist's Journey," is a revealing exhibit on many levels.
It is the biography of a prolific painter whose work depicts the seaside views that thrilled him as a boy growing up in Fairhaven. It is an artistic chronicle of the two faces of the ocean, its rolling waves and its stormy fury.
It is a glimpse into the history of New Bedford, documenting scenes of the whaling industry in its final years. It is a lesson in the style and techniques of landscape painting in the mid- to late-19th century, displaying the artist's tools and demonstrating the traditional stages of an oil painting from detailed studies to finished canvas.
July 1, 2007
Twenty years ago, a review by Vivien Raynor appeared in The New York Times with the lead, "There used to be only two 19th-century Giffords to consider — the well-known Sanford Robinson (1823 to 1880) and the comparatively obscure Robert Swain (1840 to 1905). Now there are three, because the work of Charles Henry Gifford (1839 to 1904), uncovered by the historian John I. H. Baur, is having its first major exposure in the show that has just arrived at the Katonah Gallery from the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts."
Dartmouth Chronicle
June 21, 2007
Charles Henry Gifford exhibit is a rare treat for marine art lovers
FAIRHAVEN — Looking at his painting and sketches, it is easy to imagine Charles Henry Gifford (1839-1904) prowling the shipyards along the 1840's Fairhaven waterfront as a young boy, watching the oaken skeletons of future whaling ships taking shape at the hands of skilled carpenters like his father, Benjamin.
You can just as easily imagine the young artist sketching the work in progress on a scrap of paper, taking careful note how the ribs were being joined to the massive keel, soon to be covered with planking and caulked tight against the intrusion of the seas they would soon be sailing.
Sailing ships of all kinds are the predominant subject of "An Artist's Journey—" the watercolors, oil paintings, charcoal sketches and studies by Gifford being exhibited through Aug. 31 at the New Bedford Art Museum— although a few work skiffs, whaleboats, long boats and a steamship or two are mixed in with the whalers, schooners, ketches, and racing yachts he so loved to draw and paint.
March 7, 2007
The four artists in the New Bedford Art Museum's current exhibit have a lot in common. All four use the figure as their subject. All four work in a realistic style. All four work on a life-sized scale. And all four are professors in UMass Dartmouth's fine art department, a program that stresses observational drawing from life.
March 2, 2007
An outstanding show of contemporary art is on view through May 6 at the New Bedford Art Museum. “Humanly Possible: Four Figurative Artists,” features drawing, painting and sculpture by Pamela Hoss, Laurie Kaplowitz, Anne Leone and Stacy Latt Savage. All are masters of technique and, somewhat daringly for contemporary artists, place the human form at the center of their work.
October 24, 2006
"Masters of Watercolor," now showing in the New Bedford Art Museum's Skylight and Upper Vault galleries, highlights the unexpected beauty found in everyday life.
October 18, 2006
New Bedford art scene is a lively work in progress.
August 22, 2006
Visit the New Bedford Art Museum on a Thursday evening through Sept. 14 to hear artists, curators and the public explore "Inviting Response: Celebrating Our First Decade."
August 21, 2006
Of all the things you can do in the city this summer, few are more enlightening than a visit to the New Bedford Art Museum to marvel at the wonders of its 10th anniversary show. The show intersperses the priceless collections of the Whaling Museum, including such muses as the young city's first iron-tired bicycle, together with reinterpretations by working city artists.
July 22, 2006
One of the area's most extraordinary gardens will host the New Bedford Art Museum's fund-raising gala "The Garden Party" on Saturday, July 29.
July 19, 2006
NBAM to hold its garden fund-raiser in Dartmouth.
July 17, 2006
New Bedford gave its residents a reminder of just how much talent it has at the New Bedford Art Museum's 10th birthday party.
July 14, 2006
The New Bedford Art Museum is one of those treasures in our back,yard worthy of a visit this summer.
June 24, 2006
New Bedford Art Museum celebrates a decade of creativity.
June 8, 2006
'Vault Series: New and Review' pays tribute to NBAM anniversary.
June 1, 2006
NBAM turns 10 with exhibit that pairs old and new.
March 19 , 2006
10 Who Matter: Recreation, Culture & Leisure (Karie Vincent)
March 19 , 2006
Vital Signs: Arts organizations stroke economic hopes of a city with a storied past
