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An Art Colony Treasure
The house at 8 Howard St. known as Greater Light, a property of the Nantucket Historical Association, was a summer home and art studio created in the 1930s by Gertrude and Hanna Monaghan, two Quaker … more
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Attention to detail and chic sophistication are hallmarks of Eliza Silva’s design sensibilities.
The Designing World Of Eliza Silva
In the 1920s it was just a beachside shack where one could get a snack without changing out of their bathing suit. Most old-time Nantucket summer residents include lunch at The Galley at Cliffside … more
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Literary Ladies
Recently recognized by The New York Times as two of this year’s best-selling authors, island writers Nancy Thayer and Elin Hilderbrand each released new books this year that seamlessly blend … more
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Good As Gold
Nantucket is a jewelry-lover’s mecca. With an abundance of glittering accessories filling up the display windows of numerous downtown storefronts, it can be hard for island jewelry … more
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Three Artists For August
JOHN DEVANEY Before long-time Nantucket resident and artist John Devaney begins a new work, he first takes a careful look at his surroundings and then paints from a point of view that may … more
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Lights. Camera. Action
The annual festival devoted to celebrating the art of screenwriting has added an extra day this year, opening on Wednesday and running through Sunday, when it will close with Vera Farmiga’s … more
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Laura Gallagher Byrne passes love for theater on to children
Laura Gallagher Byrne first arrived on Nantucket 22 years ago, hired by the now-defunct company Musicana to work as a singing waitress at the Harbor House restaurant. "We would wait tables, … more
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Artists Association of Nantucket
Since the founding days of the Artists Association of Nantucket, the organization has focused on promoting the arts on the island, but its passion has always been the artists who call these shores … more
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Portrait of an Artist
To John Lochtefeld, art has been a way of life for more than seven decades. As a young child, he would draw all the time on just about everything, and now 76, he continues that passion working from … more
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Harbor Gallery
Some of Kathy Kelliher’s earliest and fondest memories are of a small shell-lined piece of the waterfront known as Old South Wharf. The long wharf is home to many a fine sailboat, … more
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Katie Trinkle Legge
Growing up, Katie Trinkle Legge was an Army brat, moving from town to town as her father pursued a military career. But there was always one place she could call home: her grandfather’s house … more
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Stephen Pitliuk
A large part of Stephen Pitliuk’s inspiration when painting is derived from his experience on Nantucket. A resident for more than eight years, Pitliuk is a trained artist whose work … more
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George Thomas
James Joyce once wrote, “The artist… standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams… To equate these faculties was the secret … more
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Home Again
Barbara Capizzo’s newest body of work at The Sosebee Galleries reflects the warm and sunny tones of the Mediterranean, and is a gift to the island community, which gave her husband, legendary … more
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Creatively Kagan
Having grown up in the wonderfully wacky world of Vladimir Kagan and Erica Wilson, their children – Jessica, Vanessa and Illya – easily agree on one thing. Their parents’ approach … more
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Karin Sheppard weaves an alpaca throw. She purchases Frog Tree alpaca yarn, produced by a nonprofit cooperative in South America for the Cape Cod-based T&C Imports.
Portrait of an Artist: Karin Sheppard
It’s rarely easy for artists to make a living from their trade, and when high housing and fuel costs and a seasonal tourism base are factored in, this adage rings even truer for … more
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The Beauty of a Nantucket Winter
photo by Jim Powers photo by Nicole Harnishfeger photo by Nicole Harnishfeger photo by Jim Powers photo by Nicole Harnishfeger … more
John Devaney
John Devaney is a painter of gestures: the gestures and movements of figures, whether they are the inanimate formations found in the landscape, or the distinctive attributes of the human form. … more
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George, named after the artist's father.
An Unlikely Artist
Sculptor Gordon Gund has refused to let his blindness stand in the way of his creativity, and now one of his pieces is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The seagull’s silver nitrate … more
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Joan Albaugh
Sitting at the kitchen table talking with painter Joan Albaugh, you are surrounded by the sort of playful and ironic kitsch represented by old tin lunch boxes featuring the characters from long-gone … more
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Portrait of an Artist: Joanna Kane
Joanna Kane has Manhattan on her mind. Her mood is expansive and restless, a radical shift for an artist who has zealously embraced the quiet and calm of Nantucket for the last quarter century. … more
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SPLASH: Boatbuilding on Nantucket
The immutable link between the ocean and those who sail upon it has been contemplated and written about for longer than most history can recall. Mankind’s medium for connecting with the … more
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Christine Sanford
Just inside a trellised gate one morning this summer, the sounds of construction and traffic disappear into the tranquil air that seems to hover over Christine Sanford’s home. Barefoot and dressed … more
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Salt Meadow Antiques
Almost everyone has driven by Salt Meadow Antiques on Union Street, a major artery into town. One Wagoneer even ran into it. “He said his brakes gave out,” recounts Tom Mello of the afternoon the … more
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Louis Guarnaccia
On a gently overcast morning, Louis Guarnaccia sat next to his back-yard koi pond, the hazy sunlight barely reflecting off the lily pads as orange fish dotted the water’s surface. … more
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