September 2, 2023 6:30 am

Maine’s Farnsworth Museum Marks Its 75th

It’s adding contemporary art to its old favorites.

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Rockwell Kent, Maine Coast, c. 1907, oil on canvas.

Bequest of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Noyce, 1997, rights courtesy of Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, Rockwell Kent Collection, bequest of Sally Kent Gorton. All rights reserved, photography by Alan LaValle

Greetings from Maine and Mount Desert Island, home to Acadia National Park.

Earlier this week I wrote about the Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park in Cornish, N.H. New Hampshire’s only national park, it mostly celebrates Saint-Gaudens’s sculpture. The astonishingly good and various artist lived in Cornish. Acadia is God’s sculpture and, I believe, the grandest national park east of the Mississippi.