(Image: "Landing the Pulp Onto the Ice" by Alden Grant)

(Augusta, ME) The Maine Arts Commission is proud to announce that 19 paintings by Alden Grant are now on display in the State of Maine Capitol Complex as part of the agency’s Art in the Capitol program.

The exhibit of work depicting life in Maine’s northern woods is generously on loan from the Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum and will remain on display until the end of March. The work is viewable by the public throughout the week at the Maine State House from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, and at the Blaine House from 2:00 to 4:00 pm, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Those wishing to visit the Blaine House are advised to call ahead.

“The Maine Arts Commission is delighted to be hosting this exhibition of Alden Grant paintings which illustrate a defining and fondly reminiscent aspect of life in Maine ,” said Donna McNeil, Arts Policy and Program Director who oversees the agency’s Art in the Capitol Program.

Grant, as an 83 year old Maine guide, logging camp clerk and artist, painstakingly captured the history of the men who worked in the northern woods. From the timber cruiser who surveyed the territory for viability, accessibility and sustainability to the men on the capstan raft who towed the boom down the lake, each individual work is a study of life in the 1915 to 1928 logging camps of the Rangeley Lakes Region of western Maine.

Painting from memory, Grant’s focus in these compositions was accuracy and detail. He wanted us to see and to understand the intricacies of the lives of the crews who harvested these woods. The folkloric paintings of Alden Grant sincerely capture an iconic way of life in Maine and represent a historic portrayal of a major Maine industry and a way of life.

All Arts in the Capitol events and free and open to the public; however, exhibitions are self-guided and may only be viewed within prescribed times: at the Maine Arts Commission Office from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday; at the Maine State House from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday; and at the Blaine House from 2:00 to 4:00 pm, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (Please call ahead at 207-287-2121). For more information on this and all programs available through the Maine Arts Commission, please visit MaineArts.com.

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