Moonlight Corridor to the Cove
Reduction woodcut, edition 20, size 18.75 x 24 inches.
A view from the entrance of Perkins Cove in Ogunquit Maine, looking towards the wooden draw bridge. As often depicted in Don Gorvett woodcuts of Ogunquit is the studio of Charles H. Woodbury, artist and founder of one of the most successful of the summer art colony schools. However, in this woodcut, the view is from the studio, specifically the upstairs bedroom overlooking Perkins Cove.
ABOUT / Don Gorvett is an artist and printmaker known for his large and powerful woodcuts of maritime and architectural subjects. He was born in Boston, MA, in 1949, and attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts through the Ford Junior Fellowship Grant. His life long intention of living within the realms of harbors and the sea continues to provide the intellectual stimulus in which to approach the maritime imagery.
Mr. Gorvett's woodcuts are in public and private collections, which include The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA., Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA., Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA., Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH., Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA., Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockport, ME., Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA., Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA., Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, VT., Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME., Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA., Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME., Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA., and the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA.
