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Indepth Arts News: "Richard Meryman: For the Love of Painting" 2001-06-08 until 2001-08-08 Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery Keene, NH, USA United States of America
Meryman became a portrait painter, receiving commissions from many members of Dublin society, including Rob Sagendorph, founder of Yankee magazine and his wife, beaTrix Sagendorph, founder of the Thorne Gallery.
Meryman also painted many dignitaries' portraits while director of the art school at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He painted university presidents, generals and admirals, the secretary of the Navy, chief justice of the Supreme Court, a senator from Tennessee, and President Coolidge's son. By 1935 modernism permeated the art world, and Meryman's tradition of 19th-century realism was no longer the training students wanted.
He returned to live year-round in Dublin, where he sold landscapes from his studio. He also ran an art school in town with painter Alexander James. However, he continued to receive portrait commissions and became New Hampshire's official portraitist, painting many former governors including Sherman Adams, who became President Eisenhower's chief of staff.
Meryman was an important, but lesser known, member of the Dublin Art Colony. He refused to advance himself in the art world blaming art dealers for promoting abstract art. He had only one formal exhibition of his work in 1951, which he organized himself in a Dubliner's barn.
The Thorne Gallery will be open during the summer from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday though Monday and noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday; it is closed on Thursday and Friday. The gallery will be closed for a week between June 28 and July 6.
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