YEAR: 2004 ARTISTS: Zhou Hai, Jiang Jing, Zhou Min, Luo Yongjin, Lu Yuanmin, Liu Xiaodi, Zhang Xinmin AUTHORS: Elaine Tuttle Hansen, Mark H.C. Bessire, John Yu Zou, Gu Zheng, EDITOR: Mark H.C. Bessire DESIGNER: Nathaniel Kuritz PUBLISHER: Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME Details: Softcover, 47 pages, [9 x 12...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge comes a “superb” (O: The Oprah Magazine) novel that “confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice.” (The Atlantic Monthly) In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler...
by Mary Morton Cowan Cyrus Field had a big dream to connect North America and the United Kingdom with a telegraph line, which would enable instant communication. In the mid-1800s, no one knew if it was possible. That didn't dissuade Cyrus, who set out to learn about undersea cables and built a network...
A sexy, propulsive novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation through the eyes of a disgraced small-town librarian. Now that her brilliant botanist daughter is off at college, buttoned-up Maeve Cosgrove loves her job at a quiet Maine public library more than anything. But when a teenager accuses Maeve―Maeve!―of...
YEAR: 2003 ARTISTS: Andrew and Jamie Wyeth AUTHORS: George Contis PUBLISHER: Bates College Museum of Art Lewiston, Maine DETAILS: Softcover, foldout, [8 x 9 ¾ in dimensions], [6 color images] EXHIBITION: Andrew and Jamie Wyeth: Selections from the Collection of Victoria Browning Wyeth DATES: June 10 – October 2, 2011
This Isabella Gardner Poetry Award-winning book-length poem is a medley of voices in dialogue with each other—overheard, remembered, and internal—that represents a mind at work as it considers the destructiveness of human nature, the hypocrisy and artifice of the American dream. Voices from personal conversations, political speeches, Guantanamo detainees, news reports, and...
From the acclaimed author of Weather comes a slim, stunning portrait of a marriage–a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR – THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Best Book of...
This profusely illustrated catalogue covers the over fifty year career of DeWitt Hardy (1940 - 2017). A master draftsman, watercolors were his greatest achievement. Hardy fashioned the coast of southern Maine, its interior woods and fields, houses and factories, and its denizens, into the subjects of his watercolors. In complex and original...
Published on the occasion of the exhibition An Adventurous Spirit: The Jane Costello Wellehan Collection, the catalogue is a comprehensive record of the collection including illustrations of each artwork, essay, interpretive text and biographies on the artists. Year: 2021 Authors: Essay by Jessica Skwire Routhier, catalogue entries drafted by Museum of...
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A sharply observed memoir of motherhood and the self, and a love letter to Maine, by a writer Eula Biss calls “witty, sly, critical, inventive” and whose mind Leslie Jamison calls “electric.”“An absolute stunner: frank, funny, self-aware, constantly surprising.”—George SaundersThat night, in his bed, I spread...
“Extraordinary."—Stephen King “This book is not simply the great American novel; it's the great novel of las Americas. It's the great world novel! This is the international story of our times. Masterful."—Sandra CisnerosTambién de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in...
YEAR: 2005 ARTIST: Robert Indiana AUTHOR: Mark H.C. Bessire EDITOR: Erica Rand DESIGNER: Margo Halverson and Charles Melcher, Alice Design Communication PUBLISHER: Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME DETAILS: Hardcover, 56 pages, [9 ¼ x 10 ½ in dimensions], [32 color images] EXHIBITION: Robert Indiana: The Hartley Elegies DATES: October...
Poetry. Robert Farnsworth's first two books were published by Wesleyan University Press. Twenty years later, Harbor Mountain Press brings out Farnsworth's next: fine narrative poems made of patina and salt, family memory and youthful outlook, reality and regret. "Farnsworth returns with poems of wonder and shame, loneliness and 'the strange,...
YEAR: 2012 ARTIST: Robert S. Neumann AUTHORS: Lisa Chalif, Philip Heckscher, Carl Little EDITOR: Lisa Chalif DESIGNER: Amy Berger, ABGraphics PUBLISHER: The Heckscher Museum of Art Huntington, NY DETAILS: Softcover, 28 pages, [8 x 8 in dimensions], [16 color images] EXHIBITION: Robert S. Neuman’s Ship to Paradise DATES: January 16 – March...