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Coming soon!
Greenheads (the book)
by Sam Holdsworth
Hardcover book, full
color, approximately 150 pages, $35.00.
Includes all paintings in the exhibition as well as additional works.
Proceeds to benefit the Cape Ann Museum.
Call the Museum at
(978) 283-0455 to place an order.
The
most recent scholarship on Fitz Henry Lane
Fitz Henry Lane:
Family and Friends
by Sarah Dunlap and
Stephanie Buck
The Museum is pleased to announce the newest addition to the shelves of
the shop. Fitz Henry Lane: Family and Friends. Written by the
Museum's Librarian and Archivist, Stephanie Buck, and Sarah V. Dunlap,
co-chair of the Gloucester Archives Committee, and co-published by the
Museum, the book discloses new facts about Lane’s life and relationships
in his birthplace of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Using previously ignored
or overlooked photographs, maps and documents, some of which are
reproduced for the first time, they take a close look at Lane’s family,
his childhood, the neighborhood he grew up in, his schooling, his early
career as a shoemaker, and his stone house. They draw clear portraits of
several of Lane’s adult friends and uncover some surprising details about
his estrangement from his brother-in-law. They also revisit and expand on
the discussions surrounding his lameness and the proliferation of the use
of his incorrect middle name. Soft bound $18.95.
Also available in the shop is Fitz Henry Lane and Mary Blood
Mellen: Old Mysteries and New Discoveries, a 112 page hardcover
catalogue, which accompanied the special exhibition of Lane and Mellen's
work which was featured at the Museum in the summer of 2007. The
catalogue includes an essay by Lane scholar John Wilmerding and more than
90 full color images. Hard cover $85.
Virginia Lee Burton: A
Sense of Place
A
film by Christine Lundberg and Rawn Fulton
Virginia Lee Burton, author and illustrator of Mike Mulligan and His
Steam Shovel, The Little House and countless other beloved children's
books was also a gifted textile designer. In 1940, she founded the
Folly Cove Designers in Gloucester, where she lived with her husband,
noted sculptor, George Demetrios and their sons. The design collective
produced highly sophisticated and detailed textiles that were sold
throughout the United States. The Museum houses the largest collection of
the work. This documentary explores Burton's life and art through
archival materials, photographs, personal documents, sketchbooks and
interviews.
DVD, 56 minutes $30.
You’ll also find notecards featuring some of Cape Ann’s finest artists,
including Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer and Edward Potthast....Mariposa
hand crafted aluminum canapé plates and salad servers, all with a maritime
flavor....cribbage boards designed with man made scrimshaw....CDs and videos....children’s books,
especially the all time favorites by Virginia Lee Burton, including
Katy and the Big Snow and Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel....adult
books about Cape Ann from boat building to fisheries to art and poetry include
Fitz Henry Lane, by John Wilmerding, the 2005 reprint featuring new
information on the author's name; Mackerel Seining on the Auxiliary
Schooner, Thelma, 1928-1933, a chapbook featuring excerpts from the
log book of the Thelma, by Jack Bishop; Gloucester Recollected
by Alfred Mansfield Brooks; A Sculptor's Fortune: Memoir by Walker
Hancock; and back by popular demand, a reprint of the exhibition
catalogue, Folly Cove Designers, featuring 300 designs by the
artisans. The newest titles in the shop include
Gloucester' s Bargain with the Sea, by Chester Brigham and
Mingling Souls upon Paper: An Eighteenth Century Love Story by Bonnie
Hurd Smith.
To order or to ask for more information, please contact Jeanette Smith
at (978) 283-0455 or
jeanettesmith@capeannmuseum.org.
The Museum accepts Visa and Mastercard, as well as personal checks.
There is no charge to visit the Museum Shop. Hours
are the same as the Museum schedule. |
