The picturesque coastal town of Boothbay Harbor, Maine (about an hour north of Portland), is the setting for Gleason Fine Art, Inc.'s, distinctive gallery. Housed in a big, gray-painted restored farmhouse with three viewing rooms, the gallery is located in the heart of the downtown.
Owner-directors Dennis and Martha Gleason have over twenty years’ experience in the field of American and European art. A well-chosen selection of late 19th and early 20th century paintings, including examples by Andrew Winter, Robert Henri, James Fitzgerald, Jay Hall Connaway, Eric Hudson, and Charles Woodbury, is always on view. Paintings featuring Maine's rugged coast, particularly Monhegan and Mount Desert islands, are gallery specialties. The Gleasons also offer consulting services in collection development, conservation, and appraisal, as well as representing clients at auction.
In addition to antique paintings, the gallery prides itself in representing a select group of the Northeast’s finest contemporary artists, including modernists Helen St. Clair and Andrea Peters; realists Kevin Beers, Scott Kelley, Genetta McLean, and Peter Sculthorpe; dioramist Anne-Emmanuelle Marpeau; impressionist Jonathan Hotz; fiber artists Gayle Fraas and Duncan Slade; and classically influenced sculptors Don Justin Meserve, Carole Hanson, and Cabot Lyford.
The Gleasons take particular pleasure in representing the estates of realist Clarence K. Chatterton (1880-1973), whose close friendship with Edward Hopper, Robert Henri, and Rockwell Kent is amply evident in his depiction of everyday life along the Maine Coast; and modernist Emil Holzhauer (1887-1986), a German émigré who also applied Robert Henri’s revolutionary approach to painting to his own renditions of Monhegan Island.
Gleason Fine Art prides itself in having placed numerous paintings in major collections and museums, including the Farnsworth Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Monhegan Museum. Recent examples include significant works by Fairfield Porter, Robert Henri, George Bellows, C.K. Chatterton, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Leon Kroll, and Andrea Peters.
Although located in a seasonal town, Gleason Fine Art maintains year-round hours, with exceptions for weather and vacations. The gallery actively purchases high-quality fine art and appraises single examples or entire collections. |
