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Janet Conlon Manyan, a still-life and figurative painter, opens a solo exhibition at Frost Gully Gallery in Freeport today. The exhibition will remain on view through Dec. 6.
Manyan's work evolves from a line of teaching that began with William Merritt Chase in New York and continued with the Cape Cod School of Art. This school of painters believed that observing color was more important than initial drawing, and that painting was about "seeing," writes Joan P. Uraneck, a professor of art history at Maine College of Art.See the full content of this document
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Freeport Gallery Shows Work of Janet Manyan
"Students were advised to paint directly from nature," Uraneck writes in an ess...
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