Perhaps more than any other painter, Stan Murphy captured the Vineyard at a particular moment in time. In honor of his 100th birthday, a Martha’s Vineyard Museum retrospective of his life and work celebrates the faces of an Island on the precipice of great change.
Elizabeth Hawes
For artist Terry Crimmen, the color below is crucial.
Elizabeth Bennett
I was skeptical that it was, in fact, Skempton. And who put the piano on Cronig’s porch?
Loren Ghiglione
It’s a birder! It’s a painter! Look, it’s Lanny McDowell!
Nelson Sigelman
“I would say [that my work is] contemporary. You know what you’re looking at; it’s not so abstract that you can’t see what the image is.”
Nicole Grace Mercier
“It’s a very specialized and kind of rarified art form….Tapestry weaving, the need to build images, is ancient.”
Nicole Grace Mercier
At the Martha’s Vineyard Museum in Vineyard Haven, master stoneworker Lew French has created a mystical poetry garden in honor of the poet and human rights activist Rose Styron.
Alexandra Bullen Coutts
Island artists create fishy works of art.
Nicole Grace Mercier
