Draft:Don Gorvett

Gorvett in 2016.[1]

Donald Neil Gorvett (born August 1, 1949) is an American artist who specializes in printmaker, painting, and drawing. Gorvett is best known for his reduction woodcut printmaking. Gorvett lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and has galleries in Gloucester and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.[2] His focus is on maritime vistas, and is heavily influenced by his love of history, music, and the activities of harbor towns.[3]

Gorvett's woodcuts are in many notable permanent collections of both public and private institutions, including as the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockport, Maine; the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University, England; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts; and Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Local artist Don Gorvett's early summers in Ogunquit". Portsmouth Herald. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  2. ^ "New Exhibit: "Waterfronts and Woodcuts," by Guest Artist Don Gorvett". www.frederickgunn.org. 2023-10-02. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  3. ^ Bonneville, Brenda (2023-05-30). "Ogunquit Heritage Museum Opens with Exhibit by Artist Don Gorvett". MAINE ART SCENE MAGAZINE | Your Online Maine Art News!. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  4. ^ Brewster Jr., William; Candee, Richard M. (2021). Twilight of American Impressionism. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Portsmouth Marine Society Press. pp. 74–83. ISBN 9780915819492.
  5. ^ "Gorvett's artwork on display in Portsmouth". Portsmouth Herald. Retrieved 2024-04-21.

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