Past Exhibitions

2023

• Ever Baldwin: Down the Line
• Spontaneous Generation: The Work of Liam Lee
• Meg Webster: Site-Specific Work
• Shifting Sands: Beaches, Bathers, and Modern Maine Art
• The Architect of a Museum
• The Sea, Just Like Your Eyes, Became a Refuge: Joe Wardwell Mural Commission
• Networks of Modernism,1898–1968

2022

• John Walker: From Low Tide to High Tide
• Jim Morin: Drawing and Painting
• Sue Miller: Personal Voyage
• Philip Koch: Isle of Dreams 
• Hopeful: A Project by Charlie Hewitt
• Robert Laurent: Open Studio   
• I’ll Bring the Luck with Me: Hunting and Fishing with Henry Strater   
• Virginia Overton: Untitled (Cardinal C-80)
• Josephine Halvorson: On the Ground 
• The View from Narrow Cove 

2021

• Celeste Roberge: In The Park
• One Hand Clapping: Jo Sandman
• Remember the Ladies: Women Painters in Ogunquit, 1900-1950
• Kahlil G. Gibran: The Surface and Below
• Light Southerly: Henry Strater in Verde Valley
• The View From Narrow Cove
• Charles Woodbury: Open Studio
• Art’s Ball: Wood Gaylor & American Modernism, 1913-1936
• Life Streams: Alberto Rey, Cuban-American Artist

2020

• After Party: Andy Rosen
• Kathleen Speranza: Vanitas Vita
• Emily Nelligan: Nocturne
• Light Southerly: Henry Strater in Verde Valley
• The View from Narrow Cove: Bicentennial Ogunquit
• Charles Woodbury: Open Studio

2019

• The View from Narrow Cove
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Henry Strater at Home & Abroad
• Arthur Bowen Davies Figurative Works on Paper from the Randolph College and Mac Cosgrove-Davies Collections and Arthur B. Davies Paintings from the Randolph College Collection
• Shorelines: Coastal Sightings in American Art
• Seascape by James Welling
• Eating Flower: Sensations of Cig Harvey
• Subject Matters: Sebastian Martorana in Sculpture

2018

• The View from Narrow Cove
• This Side of Paradise: American Artists of the Paris Salon
• Surrounded: Sampling Burchfield’s Wallpaper
• Bill Viola: The Fall Into Paradise
• Lois Dodd: Drawings and Paintings
• Boundaries: Jacob Bond Hessler and Richard Blanco
• Steve Hawley: Studio Light

2017

• Tradition and Excellence: Art and Ogunquit, 1914-1918
• Ernest Hemingway and Henry Strater
• Dahlov Ipcar: Creative Growth
• Gary Haven Smith
• SALT/SEA/STONE: The Photographs of Carl Austin Hyatt
• John Marin: On the Verge of Wilderness
• Will Barnet: Family Homage
• Cabot Lyford: Truth of Material
• James Linehan: Schoodic
• Gail Spaien: Serenade
• Dozier Bell: Land, Sea and Sky
• Anna Hepler
• Alison Rector: The Value of Thought

2016

• Bernard Langlais: Wood, Paper, Canvas
• Bernard Karfiol: Ogunquit Master
• Patience E. Haley: Blue Moon
• Jamie Wyeth: Private Collection
• Tom Butler: The Hidden
• Henry Strater: Blue
• Tradition and Excellence
• Recent Acquisitions

2015

• Michael Alpert: Architectonica chipolana
• The Magnificent Landscape: Works from the Permanent Collection
• Todd Webb: Georgia O’Keeffe & the American West
• George Daniell: Island Life: Grand Manan & Monhegan
• Alfred Chadbourn: Painting in Maine
• Winslow Homer’s Civil War
• Rose Marasco: Patrons of Husbandry
• Directors’ Cut: Selections from the Maine Art Museum Trail
• Old is the New New: Tradition and Excellence, a Fresh Perspective
• Verner Reed: New England Life
• Henry Strater: Still Life
• DeWitt Hardy

2014

• John Laurent
• Recent Acquisitions
• Henry Strater: Arizona Winters
• Tradition and Excellence: The OMAA Permanent Collection
• Andrew Wyeth: The Linda L. Bean Collection
• Richard Brown Lethem: Figure
• Alexandra de Steiguer: Small Island, Big Picture
• A Modernist Menagerie: Works from the Permanent Collection
• Amy Stracey Curtis: Drawings

2013

• Sixty Works – 60 Years
• Henry Strater: A Life in Art
• Andy Warhol: American Icon
• Emerging Artists: 2013
• A Community Collects: The York Hospital Collection
• Charles and Marcia: The Woodburys in Holland

2012

• Light, Motion, Sound 2012: A Collaborative Exhibition with the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts
• Tradition and Excellence: Building an American Modernist Collection, Highlights from the Permanent Collection
• Henry Strater: Art of the Portrait
• Peggy Bacon: Life in Art
• The Art of Will Barnet
• Contemporary Works from the Permanent Collection
• Portrait of an Art Colony
• Carlo Pittore and the Mail Art Movement

2011

• Tradition and Excellence: Building an American Modernist Collection, Highlights from the OMAA Permanent Collection
• Contemporaries: The Artists of La Napoule Art Foundation
• Henry Strater: The Drawing Tradition
• Susan Schultz: The Plastic Ocean
• Lauren Fensterstock: Incidents of Garden Displacement
• The Question of Drawing
• Jack Levine
• Aronson to Aronson: The Lineage of Expressionism
• Drawn to Modernism

2010

• Selma Koss Holtz: A Legacy of Giving
• John Bisbee
• Perkins Cove, Ogunquit and Maine
• Recent Acquisitions
• Ed Betts: An Ogunquit Master
• Assemblage: Art of the Found Object

2009

• Selections from the OMAA Permanent Collection at the Portsmouth Athenaeum
• The Works of Bernard Langlais
• Marsden Hartley: The OMAA Legacy
• The OMAA Permanent Collection: Out of the White Mountains
• Painting Maine: Maurice Freedman
• Beverly Hallam: A Celebration

2008

• Selections from the OMAA Permanent Collection
• Dorothy Eisner: Paintings 1951-1983
• The New Hope School: Pennsylvania Impressionists
• The Watercolors of Robert Eric Moore

2007

• Paintings by Jamie Wyeth
• Ansel Adams: The Man Who Captured the Earth’s Beauty
• Jacob Lawrence: Prints 1963-2000
• Lincoln Perry: Paintings
• Watercolors from the OMAA Permanent Collection

2006

• The Figure in American Painting and Drawings: 1985-2005
• The Prints of Peggy Bacon
• The American Watercolor Society National Traveling Exhibition

2005

• Edward Hopper: The Ogunquit Paintings
• The Art of Emily Mason
• Memories of World War II: Photographs from the Associated Press Archives

2004

• The Art of Janet Fish
• Selections from the Farnsworth Art Museum’s Permanent Collection
• Eliot O’Hara Watercolors

2003

• 50 Years of Celebrating American Art:
• Selections from the OMAA Permanent Collection

2002

• The Art of Leon Kroll
• Paintings and Drawings by Brenda Bettinson
• Gaela Erwin: Self-Portraits
• Landscapes by Wolf Kahn
• Mitchell Rosenzweig: Recent Paintings

2001

• George Lloyd Paintings: The Maine Years
• The Art of John Folinsbee
• Prints by Jack Levine
• Neil Welliver Paintings 1983-2001
• The Paintings of John J. Enneking

2000

• A Century Revisited: Selections from the OMAA Permanent Collection
• Painted Air: American Impressionism

1999

• Abraham J. Bogdanove: Painting of Monhegan
• The 132nd American W atercolor SocietyTraveling Exhibition
• Frances Hynes: Paintings 1989-1999
• Realism X 3: Linden Frederick, Steve Hawley, and Ann Lofquist

1998

• Charles H. Woodbury and His Students
• The Art of Arthur Getz: The New Yorker Covers
• Abstraction X 3: Jessyca Broekman, Martha Groome, and Brigitte Keller
• The Art of Carl Sprinchorn
• The Isle of Skye: Paintings by Sherry Palmer

1997

• Hughie Lee-Smith: A Retrospective
• 130th American Watercolor Society National Traveling Exhibition
• John Marin: Maine Watercolors
• Realism in 20th Century American Art
• Drawings and Etchings by Paul Cadmus

1996

• Creative Lives: The Art of Edward Betts, Dahlov Ipcar, Cabot Lyford, and William Thon
• George Hawley Hallowell’s New England Visions
• Reality and Dream: The Art of George Tooker

1995

• The American Watercolor Society Traveling Exhibition
• Isabel Bishop and Bernard Karfiol: The Realist and the Romantic
• Mainescapes: Women Artists, 1900-1995

1994

• Will Barnet: Works of Six Decades
• The Art of Patt Franklin
• Bernard Langlais: Maine Sculptor

1993

• Gems from the Permanent Collection: A 40th Anniversary Celebration
• Mainescapes: 1900-1992

1992

• Walt Kuhn, American Master
• Henry Meloy: Images and Words
• Paintings and Drawings by Brett Bigbee
• The Art of Jack Levine

1991

• John Laurent, Maine Painter
• Horizons and Beyond: Paintings by Dozier Bell
• Abe Ajay: Constructivist

1990

• The Art of Marguerite and William Zorach
• John Heliker: Works from 1950-1990
• The American Watercolor Traveling Exhibition

1989

• From the Collection of
• A Kentucky Show

1988

• Alexander Brook and Wallace Herndon Smith Exhibition

1987

• Henry Strater Retrospective
• Peggy Bacon Memorial Exhibit

1986

• Rudolph Dirks Exhibition

1985

• Helen MacMillan Lane Exhibition

1984

• George Kunkel Memorial

1983

• Five Ogunquit Artists: Works by Antonio Mattei, George Kunkel, Elyot Henderson, Michael Palmer, and Quint-Rose

1982

• Thirteen works by Harmon Neill

1981

• Works of Sixty-Two Years: Henry Strater Retrospective

1980

• Alexander Brook and Our Group – works by Brook, Henry Strater, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Reginald Marsh

1979

• Museum Permanent Collection

1978

• Twenty works by Clark B. Fitz-Gerald

1977

• Thirty works by DeWitt Hardy
• Drawings by Henry Strater

1976

• Thirty-seven works by Bernard Langlais
• One Hundred Years of American Watercolor

1975

• Twenty works by Edward Hopper
• A Centennial of Comic Art, USA

1974

• Twenty-one works by Henry Strater

1973

• Thirty works by Peggy Bacon

1972

• Twenty-two works by Harmon Neill

1971

• Twenty-four works by John Heliker

1970

• Fifteen works by Reginald Marsh

1969

• Drawings by Young Americans

1968

• Seventeen works by John Laurent

1967

• Museum Permanent Collection

1966

• Twenty-four works by William von Schlegell

1965

• Thirteen works by Rudolf Dirks

1964

• Twenty-eight works by Jack Levine
• Twelve works by David von Schlegell

1963

• Twelve works by William Muir
• Twenty-four works by Henry Strater

1962

• Nineteen works by Alexander Brook

1961

• Nineteen works by Charles Burchfield

1960

• 19th Century Realism: American Luminists and Trompe l’Oeil Painters

1959

• Seventeen sculptures by George A. Curtis
• Watercolors and oils by Charles Demuth
• Early American Miniatures (1770-1830)

1958

• Twenty-five works by Lyonel Feininger
• Eight works by John B. Flannagan
• Color Etchings and Aquatints by Mary Cassatt

1957

• Paintets and Sculptors from the Pacific Northwest: Morris Graves, Mark Tobey, Tom Hardy, and Philip McCracken
• Fancy Works: Six works by Peggy Bacon

1956

• Twelve works by Carl Walters
• Ten paintings by George Luks

1955

• Fourteen works by Andrew Wyeth
• 19th Century Painting (1815-65)

1954

• Oils, watercolors and drawings by Winslow Homer
• Objectionable and Non-Realistic Portraits of Artists by Isabella Howland

1953

• Memorial Exhibition of the works of Marsden Hartley, Bernard Karfiol, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Walt Kuhn, and William von Schlegell