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Rockport Art Association is an art association in the United States. It started as an artist's cooperative and became a gathering place of New England artists of the 20th century. The artists Aldro Hibbard, Antonio Cirino, Paul Strisik, Anthony Thieme, W. Lester Stevens and Harry Aiken Vincent were contemporaries closely tied to its early days.
Since 2010, these artists have included Ten Tumbao, Jose Franch Ballester, Manguito, and the Harlem String Quartet, among others. During the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Rockport Music hosts a lecture series, master classes, open rehearsals, and panel discussions, as well as free performances, for residents and visitors of Rockport. [4]
Rockport Waterfront by Anthony Thieme, c. 1930s. Anthony Thieme (20 February 1888 – 6 December 1954) was a landscape and marine painter and a major figure of the Rockport (MA) School of American regional art. He was a contemporary of important Rockport artists Aldro Hibbard, Emil Gruppe, W. Lester Stevens, Antonio Cirino, and Marguerite Pierson.
Rockport Sketchbook, by John L. Cooley, published 1965. "Aldro T. Hibbard, Painter of New England Winters", American Artist, June 1940. "The Legacy of Cape Ann," by James Keny, American Art Review, Oct./Nov. 1995. "A New View of Aldro Hibbard", by Charles Movalli, American Artist, May 1979. Art For All, The Cape Ann School, by Lisa B. Martin.
Painters who reside(d) in the State of Maine, USA, on a full-time or seasonal basis, or whose work is otherwise noted for its association with the Maine landscape: . Bo Bartlett (born 1955)
Motif Number 1 in July 2009 Motif Number 1 in March 2016. Motif Number 1, located on Bradley Wharf in the harbor town of Rockport, Massachusetts, is a replica of a former fishing shack well known to students of art and art history as "the most often-painted building in America."
A red fishing shack on Bradley Wharf in Rockport, known popularly as "Motif Number 1", has for years been one of the most famous sites on Cape Ann as the subject of hundreds of paintings and photographs, and is visited by aspiring artists & tourists alike from all over the world. Rockport is the home of the Rockport Art Association.
Harry Aiken Vincent (1861 [1] [2]-1931) was a largely self-taught American artist known for his plein air landscape paintings. Many of his oil paintings portrayed marine scenes at the start or end of the day, featuring boats and fishing activity in New England, particularly on Cape Ann , and in France.