View a sampling of classic September covers from Yankee Magazine and let us know which one is your favorite!
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Yankee Cover: September 1978
Ahmed Alsoudani is fortunate to have been born in Baghdad, Iraq. Had he been born in South Bend, Indiana, I doubt his wild neo-surrealist paintings would be selling for big bucks to some of the world’s biggest art collectors or that they would be hanging now at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. Ahmed […]
This beloved Vermont tradition is a “world” unto itself.
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Laura: The 1875 Inn
I visited The 1875 Inn & Olive Branch Tavern [now The Tilton Inn & Onions Pub] in Tilton, New Hampshire, because, according to local legend, it was haunted by the ghost of “Laura,” a 12-year-old girl who had allegedly been killed when a rooming house at the same location had burned more than 100 years […]
I hewed the road out of wilderness in 1779 with my pickaxe as one of Colonel Hazen’s men. I took over the yoke in 1789 when one of the oxen sickened, pulling the sled the last hundred miles to Wolcott. I herded a thousand turkeys over to Boston in 1826, making twelve miles a day […]
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Minimal Ferry Meets Maximal Foley
In the interest of full disclosure, Portland gallerist Andres Verzosa is a close friend and my partner in a forthcoming publishing venture, but after 35 years of writing about art in Maine, if I refrained from writing about artists and art dealers I know personally, most of the best would be off limits. The current exhibition (September […]
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A Day at the SoWa Market
Every Sunday from May through October, the open-air SoWa Market in Boston’s South End entices with food, craft, and vintage market finds – plus food trucks!
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Oh, Canada, Their New and Native Art
Oh, Canada (not to be confused with the Canadian national anthem O Canada) is a survey of contemporary art from Canada at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in the far western Mass. Art mecca of North Adams (through April 1, 2013). I am indebted to my colleague Greg Cook of the Boston […]
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Yankee Magazine Cover | August 1967
“The First Country Fair,” by Homer Hill.
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Hugh J. Gourley, III (1931-2012)
Hugh J. Gourley, III, director of the Colby College Museum of Art from 1966 until 2002, passed away in Portland, Maine, on July 25 at the age of 81. There is no way to overstate the impact Hugh Gourley had on the Colby museum, Colby College itself, and the Maine art scene. There is no […]