The Ogunquit Museum of American Art is pleased to present Maggie Strater: In Her Own Light, the first exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Margaret (Maggie) Connor Strater (1893–1976), a trained artist active in Ogunquit’s creative community. Connor Strater forged her own artistic path as a painter, sculptor, and active participant in early twentieth-century art circles. Trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, she became an enduring presence within the Ogunquit art community. This focused exhibition brings together several sculptures by Connor Strater that have never before been on public view, offering rare insight into her distinct formal sensibilities and technical skill. Complemented by archival materials, photographs, and portraits of the artist created by friends and contemporaries (including by her husband, Henry Strater), the presentation illuminates the personal and professional challenges she navigated, and the creative triumphs that define her life.
Henry Strater, Margaret Strater [detail], 1924, oil on canvas, Gift of the Estate of Henry Strater, 1988.1.62.
