Great Spruce Head Island, Maine
- Great Spruce Head Island, Maine
Great Spruce Head Island is a privately owned island in Penobscot Bay, Maine. It has long belonged to the family of the painter Fairfield Porter and his brother, photographer Eliot Porter, both of whom did ample creative work there.
Wikimedia Foundation.
2010.
Look at other dictionaries:
Maine — • Commonly known as the Pine Tree State, but is sometimes called the Star in the East Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Maine Maine … Catholic encyclopedia
Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge — contains more than 50 offshore islands and four coastal parcels, totaling more than 8,100 acres. The complex spans more than 250 miles of Maine coastline and includes five national wildlife refuges Petit Manan, Cross Island, Franklin Island, Seal … Wikipedia
Maine — /mayn/, n. 1. a state in the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 1,124,660; 33,215 sq. mi. (86,027 sq. km). Cap.: Augusta. Abbr.: ME (for use with zip code), Me. 2. a historical region and former province in NW France. 3. (italics) a U.S.… … Universalium
History of Maine — The history of the U.S. State of Maine spans thousands of years, measured from the earliest human settlement, or less than two hundred, measured from the advent of U.S. statehood in 1820. The present article will concentrate on the period of… … Wikipedia
History of painting — The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts from pre historic humans, and spans all cultures. The history of painting represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from Antiquity. Across cultures, and spanning continents and… … Wikipedia
Western painting — The history of Western painting represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from Antiquity. [Art of the Western World: From Ancient Greece to Post Modernism (Paperback)by Bruce Cole, Simon and Shuster, 1981,… … Wikipedia
Porter, Fairfield — ▪ American painter, printmaker, and writer born June 10, 1907, Winnetka, Ill., U.S. died Sept. 18, 1975, Southampton, N.Y. American painter, printmaker, and writer best known for his naturalistic painting as well as his sophisticated… … Universalium
Fairfield Porter — (June 10, 1907 September 18, 1975) was an American painter and art critic. [Art in its own terms Selected Criticism 1935 1975, by Fairfield Porter, Zoland Books, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979 ISBN 0 944072 31 3] He was the brother of… … Wikipedia
Kittery, Maine — Town Old Block House at Fort McClary … Wikipedia
South Twin Lake (Maine) — Infobox lake lake name = South Twin Lake image lake = South Twin .jpg caption lake = Evening light, South Twin Lake image bathymetry = caption bathymetry= location = Penobscot County, Maine coords = coord|45|37|N|68|51|W|region:US type:waterbody… … Wikipedia