Sidewalk Art Show 2008
The Art Season on Nantucket starts in earnest this weekend with the Artists Association of Nantucket’s Sidewalk Art Show.
The Sidewalk Art Show was founded in 1930 by the illustrator and painter Maud Stumm as an outdoor exhibition originally sited along the walls of Nantucket Atheneum. The show was open to all artists, professional or amateur and was a resounding success, drawing hundreds of visitors. Of the original show The Inquirer and Mirror reviewer wrote:
“The wide shady walk by the library was an ideal place to examine and discuss Art and the beauty of Nantucket, which was the principal subject of the oil, water-color, black and white studies displayed. Little children, tourists, sailors, townspeople came again and again, eagerly examining the varied aspects of the Island, and deciding which was truest to life.”
Sidewalk Art Show 2008
10 am - 6 pm Artists Association of Nantucket, AAN Gallery, 19 Washington St. All day outdoor art sale. Rain date 5/25. 508-228-0294.
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