Maine Memory Network

Bath Iron Works, 1943

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1943 Location: Bath Media: Oil painting

Mary Storer Potter Longfellow, ca. 1831

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1831 Media: Paper

Paint Shop, Mountfort Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Thomas Laughlin Company Use: Paint Shop

46 Cross Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Albion H. Brown Use: Paint Shop

Mural mystery in Westport Island's Cornelius Tarbox, Jr. House

The Cornelius Tarbox, Jr. House, a well-preserved Greek Revival house on Westport Island, has a mystery contained within--a panoramic narrative mural. The floor-to-ceiling mural contains eight painted panels that create a colorful coastal seascape which extends through the front hallway and up the stairwell. The name of the itinerant painter has been lost over time, can you help us solve the mystery of who he or she was?

A City Awakes: Arts and Artisans of Early 19th Century Portland

Portland's growth from 1786 to 1860 spawned a unique social and cultural environment and fostered artistic opportunity and creative expression in a broad range of the arts, which flowered with the increasing wealth and opportunity in the city.

Blue Hill, Maine - A New Look at an Old Painting

A New Look at an Old Painting Morning View of Blue Hill VillageItem Contributed byJonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc.

Blue Hill, Maine - Artist

For additional information about this painting please refer to the exhibit entitled "A New Look at an Old Painting" on this site.

One View
by Karen Jelenfy

My life as an artist in Maine.

One of the first abstract painters in Maine
by William Manning

I have grown as a painter in ways I might not have if I moved to New York