11.05.07
Maine Seascapes by Josef M. Arentz, November 2007
There’s a new art exhibit showing in the YCCC Library now until Thanksgiving Break! It includes nine seascapes by artist Josef Arentz who lived much of his life in Maine. Stop by to take a look today!
The works featured are: Seascape at Higgins Beach, Seascape with Rocks, Seascape with Calm Water, Seascape: Rocky Coastline, Seascape: Green Waves, Seascape with Tall Rocks, Seascape with Surf &Rocks, Seascape with Long Wave and Seascape:Pounding Surf.
The following information was provided by the University of Maine Museum of Art about the artist and this collection:
Josef Arentz was born in Oslo, Norway in 1903 and immigrated to the United States in 1913. He settled in Baltimore, but eventually moved to Maine to paint at the coast. After marine authorities started purchasing his work, Arentz began to exhibit annually in Baltimore and Boston. He became a student of Schnars Alquist who considered Arentz his prime pupil. He was also an art instructor at several eastern art schools. Arentz received the gold medal from the Marine Art Dealer’s Association as well as many other art show distinctions.
Arentz’s examinations of the sea as a subject for his art were exhaustive and technical. He took thousands of photographs of the shore and surf and produced endless sketches. He studied the appearance of water in motion and the effects of light upon it. Much of his work approached the development of a palette from a scientific viewpoint. Josef Arentz’s studies of the turbulent Maine seacoast in pencil, charcoal and color wash illustrate the drawing process.
