Keywords: Art on wood
Item 30230
Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood, Kennebunk, ca. 1840
Contributed by: Abplanalp Library, UNE Date: circa 1840 Location: Kennebunk Media: Daguerreotype
Item 7510
Painting on Wood from Norridgewock Covered Bridge, ca. 1929
Contributed by: Norridgewock Historical Society Date: circa 1929 Location: Norridgewock Media: Wood
Item 109353
House on Highland St. for Mr. Arthur Wood, Portland, 1910-1911
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1910–1911 Location: Portland Client: Arthur Wood Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 110155
Country House for Stanley Wood Esq. Wolf Neck, Freeport, 1917-1922
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917–1922 Location: Freeport Client: Stanley Wood Architect: John Calvin Stevens John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
A Riot of Words: Ballads, Posters, Proclamations and Broadsides
Imagine a day 150 years ago. Looking down a side street, you see the buildings are covered with posters and signs.
Exhibit
Art of the People: Folk Art in Maine
For many different reasons people saved and carefully preserved the objects in this exhibit. Eventually, along with the memories they hold, the objects were passed to the Maine Historical Society. Object and memory, serve as a powerful way to explore history and to connect to the lives of people in the past.
Site Page
Aroostook Historical and Art Museum
View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Wood pile, 130 Center St., Bangor, ca. 1864
"… to show a Jog I might & wished to represent this wood pile but in giving the L on a line with the front of the house it diminished the width of the…"
Story
making light
by David Johansen
My relationship with Maine and how and why I make neon lights here.
Story
One View
by Karen Jelenfy
My life as an artist in Maine.
Lesson Plan
Longfellow's Ripple Effect: Journaling With the Poet - "The Fire of Drift-Wood"
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12, Postsecondary
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
This lesson is part of a series of six lesson plans that will give students the opportunity to become familiar with the works of Longfellow while reflecting upon how his works speak to their own experiences.
