Cove's Edge, Maine

COVE'S EDGE, MAINE

COVE'S EDGE, MAINE
8x8, unframed oil on gessobord
plein air painting
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For two glorious weeks I rented a cottage in Cushing, Maine.
This was my view from the lawn of the cottage
I found it glorious and painted on the property several times.
Floating in the water is Rockweed
which
at low tide
 one can clearly see is attached to the rocks.

Cushing Peninsula is the peninsula on which the Olson House is located
that very site of Andrew Wyeth's most famous painting
CHRISTINA'S WORLD

Across this cove from my cottage and this painting
is the home of Andrew Wyeth...one of his homes

  Andrew died in 2009
and is buried in the Olson family cemetery.
Why did he choose this spot?
No one knows for sure but we can say for sure
he loved and painted the Olson House
and its occupants
 for many many summers.

Andrew's gravestone
exactly as he years previously had pictured it
as Christina's stone!!!!

Christina and her brother Alvaro Olson's gravestone.
The two siblings died within mere weeks of one another
in different years

The Olson House
Cushing, Maine

ANDREW WYETH- "Christina's World"

Andrew Wyeth and "Christina's World"

What a wonderful first two days in Maine!  I spent hours at the Olson House, the subject of numerous works of art by Andrew Wyeth, including Christina's World, 1948.  Wyeth's series of drawings, watercolors and tempera paintings featuring Christina Olson, her brother Alvaro and the house itself, occupied Wyeth from 1939 through 1968.

Wyeth expressively documented life on the isolated, saltwater farm in many of his works.  He said, "In the portraits of that house, the windows are eyes or pieces of the soul almost.  To me, each window is a different part of Christina's life".  

Look at my photographs to see the hill up which Wyeth watched Christina crawl because a disability prevented her from walking.  See Wyeth's grave, 2009, where he chose to buried...in the Olson family gravesite, descendants of the Hathorn family.  The Hathorn's settled the saltwater farm in 1743.  They  were seafarers and shipmasters.

On my second day in Maine I spent hours at the Farnsworth Art Museum where many of the three generations of Wyeth artists (NC, Andrew and Jamie) works are on display.  

Andrew's home is across the cove from my cottage.  It is a beautiful home with an awesome boat anchored in the cove. Though he died five years ago, the family still owns the house.  To the left of the house and in a cleared opening is another Wyeth home, one of Andrew's relative.

Olson House

Christina's Kitchen Window

Christina's Kitchen Window from the Interior

Andrew Wyeth's grave and tombstone

The hill up which Christina crawled in the painting
Christina's World

Garden Shed on Broad Cove, my home for two weeks