George Marshall Store
In 1867 George Marshall purchased the John Hancock Warehouse and surrounding land on the York River. Next door, he built the George Marshall Store, where he sold general merchandise as well as wood, building materials, and coal. The store remained in the Marshall family until 1954 when it was sold. In the years following, it served as home to the York Art Association, a gift shop, and the offices and research library of the Old York Historical Society. Upon purchase of the York County Trust building in 1994, Old York moved to its offices to their current location in the center of York Village. Two years later, Curator of Contemporary Art Mary P. Harding revived the gallery space with changing contemporary art exhibitions as well as occasional collaborative projects that blend historical themes and objects from the museum's collection with contemporary art.
Mary P. Harding, Curator of Contemporary Art
Mary is a 1975 graduate of Brown University and has always been passionate about art. After graduation, she was an exhibit designer for Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and later for the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum in Rochester, New York. She served as director of the Barn Gallery in Ogunquit, Maine for four years. Since 1990, she has been an independent art consultant specializing in regional contemporary art and, since 1996, she has curated the contemporary art exhibits for the George Marshall Store Gallery, a property and project of the Museums of Old York.
2009 Art Exhibitions
April 25 ~ May 31
Momentum VII
This annual exhibit features the winner of the 2008 New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant, Ross Cisneros, along with several finalists, including Lauren Gillette, Celeste Lambert, Jill Poyourow and Lynn Szymanski. Since it’s inception in 2002, the foundation’s annual grant program has drawn increasing numbers of artists to compete for up to $30,000 to support plans that can make a significant difference to the advancement of an artist’s work. Although there is only one artist to receive the financial grant, the jury also selects a group of finalists whose work is exhibited in the annual Momentum exhibition presented by the Museums of Old York’s George Marshall Store Gallery.
Amy Brnger: Sense and Sensibility
The dock level gallery will show Sense and Sensibility. Amy Brnger combines rich colors, full brush strokes and keen observation to create her small paintings of interiors, landscapes and flower arrangements.
June 6 ~ July 12
Tom Curry: Coming to Light
The main level gallery will show Tom Curry's Coming to Light. Curry is a plein air painter committed to creating paintings that capture the sense of place, time and atmosphere of the Maine landscape.
Still Points
The dock level gallery will showcase Still Points. The mysterious charcoal paintings by New York artist Charles Ramsburg are paired with porcelain forms made collaboratively by ceramic artist Maureen Mills and printmaker Victoria Elbroch.
July 18 ~ August 23
R.S.V.P.
The main level gallery will host a special group show of invited New England artists, entitled R.S.V.P.
Stuart Ober
The dock level gallery will feature work by Stuart Ober. The relationship of ordinary objects in Ober's meticulously rendered oil paintings create tension and narratives that are both beautiful and unsettling.
August 29 ~ October 4
Frederick Lynch: New Drawings and Constructions
The main level gallery will feature New Drawings and Constructions by Frederick Lynch. One of Maine's purely abstract painters, Lynch continues the exploration of his pictorial system called "Divisions."
Donald Demers: York River Currents
The dock level gallery will feature York River Currents, by Donald Demers. Nationally recognized as a marine and landscape painter, Demers shares his personal exploration of the York River from its upper reaches, coves and harbors, out to the sea.
October 10 ~ November 15
Arthur DiMambro: Solo Flight
The main level gallery will host Solo Flight, showcasing the work of New Hampshire artist Arthur Dimambro. DiMambro's imaginative still life and landscape paintings are a balance of abstraction and realism using a kaleidoscope of color and forms.
Stuart Kestenbaum and Susan Webster: Life or Dream
The dock level gallery will feature Life or Dream, a collaborative body of work integrating words and images by Deer Isle poet Stuart Kestenbaum and artist Susan Webster.
November 21 ~ December 20
Click
The final exhibition of the 2009 season, Click will feature selected New England photographers in both the main and dock level galleries. Although photography has been included in many past exhibitions, for the first time the entire gallery will be dedicated to this medium.
For more information about the George Marshall Store Gallery and upcoming exhibits, visit their website at www.georgemarshallstoregallery.com or just stop in at 140 Lindsay Road!