by Alison Hill
Welcome to Monhegan Island, Maine!
Mark your calendar -- August 11 thru 14, 2008
$450 for four full days of painting instruction
with Alison Hill & Ted Tihansky
Explore new means of painting expression though experimentation - Alison Hill
Buils your color vocabulary through changing techniques - Ted Tihansky
"This wonder island, Monhegan, is enough to start me off to such feverish activity in painting as I have never known." - Rockwell Kent
All over the island we will see painters together; painting, sitting around in the evening, and talking art. Our conversations are every bit as animated and vigorous as conversations had always been in the days of Robert Henri and his students
Monhegan is a small, rocky Island ten miles from the nearest mainland and scarcely a square mile in area. It is accessible only by boat and there are no cars or paved roads on the Island. It was known to Native Americans as a prime fishing area, and today its economy is still ruled by those who make their living from the sea, fishing and lobstering. The year-round population has seldom exceeded 65 in recent times; including 12 lobstermen/women and their families.
by Ted Tihansky
The Painting Gypsies invite you to experience what has inspired the giants of American art.
For more than 100 years, Monhegan Island has been a summer haven for artists who appreciate its isolation, the beauty of its wilderness areas, its quiet rexlaxed atmosphere, and its unhurried pace. Edward Hopper, George Bellows and Rockwell Kent, and many others first set out for Monhegan in 1905 at the urging of New York Art Students' Leaque painting teacher, Robert Henri.
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Please make your travel arrangements to
Monhegan Island.
Book your ferry to the island here www.Monheganboat.com The websites www.Monhegan.info, and www.Monhegan.com
