10.22.07

New Items: September to Mid-October 2007

Posted in General at 1:41 pm by yccclibrary

We’ve got a few new things that have been added to our collection recently. Thanks to those who have donated books to further increase our growing fiction assortment. Here’s a list of what to look for:

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10.19.07

Museums By Mail

Posted in Art exhibits at 3:42 pm by yccclibrary

YCCC is taking part in the University of Maine Museum of Art’s Vincent A. Hartgen Traveling Art Exhibit Program this fall. Called Museums By Mail, this cool program allows us to borrow items from the Maine Museum of Art’s permanent collection and display them in the library for all to view. Four exciting exhibits have been scheduled. You may have already seen Shildknecht’s Rural Watercolors on display during the month of September, and Stones and Bones: Alan Magee is currently on display through the end of October. Coming in November is Maine Seascapes by Josef Arentz and rounding out the year in December is Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz.

If you want to learn more about Museums by Mail, go to http://www.umma.umaine.edu/education/by_mail.html

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10.10.07

Alan Magee: Stones and Bones, October 2007

Posted in Art exhibits at 9:39 am by yccclibrary

This collection of artwork just arrived and it’s fantastic! It includes seven reproductions of works by Maine artist Alan Magee featuring various types of stones and bones.

The works featured are: Tablet; The Other Gods; Stone Bapistory; Collected Letters; Cool Air; Pears and Box; and Seminary. Stop by to take a look today!

If you want to view more works by this artist, visit his website at www.alanmagee.com.

The following information was provided by the University of Maine Museum of Art about the artist and this collection:

Alan Magee can be considered one of the finest representational painters in the world of contemporary American art today. This is a difficult achievement considering the fact that representational art is considered by most critics to be a style of little relevance on the contemporary American art scene. He has, however, established his independence and uniqueness with a great amount of success. His uniqueness lies in his choice of subject matter. While most representational painters focus on the big things in life, such as landscapes, and crowded city streets, Magee focuses on tiny objects, such as stones and pebbles, bones of mice, and asparagus stalks. He paints his subjects in intricate detail and has the ability to create a composition, in which ever aspect of every form appears to be part of a greater whole.

This contemporary Maine artist transforms images of such things as beach stones, firecrackers and paint tubes into unique works of art. Magee, born in 1947 in Newtown, Pennsylvania, attended art school in Philadelphia and began working as an editorial and book illustrator in New York during his last year of college. Among his regular clients were Time and New York magazines, and Bantam, Avon, and Pocket book publishers. His illustrations received numerous Awards of Excellence from the Society of Illustrators, Communications Arts Magazine and the Art Directors’ Clubs of Los Angeles Chicago and New York.

In the late 1970s, Magee began to concentrate exclusively on his personal paintings and in 1980 had his first solo exhibition at Staempfli Gallery in New York City. Since that time, he has had annual one-man shows throughout the US and Europe. A ten-year retrospective “Alan Magee 1981-1991,” traveled to four US museums. Magee lives in Cushing, Maine.

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