“Threads: A Community Quilt for 2020” Opens at Portsmouth Historical Society on Friday, August 7 Quietly, behind the scenes, a team of masked historians has been assembling a landmark exhibition of some uniquely American art. Created by the nonprofit Portsmouth Historical Society, “Threads: A Community Quilt for 2020” opens at the Society’s Academy Gallery adjacent…
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“Threads” Lecture Series
We’ve assembled a stand-out crowd of lecturers for this summer and fall! Textile experts Diane Fagan Affleck, formerly of the American Textile History Museum, Lynne Bassett, author of Northern Comfort: New England’s Early Quilts 1780-1850 and co-author of Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War, Jennifer Swope, Assistant Curator at the MFA’s David and…
Portsmouth Historical Society Launches “Threads” Community Quilt & Exhibition
Portsmouth Historical Society Launches “Threads” Community Quilt & Exhibition Contribute your own creative quilt square from home PORTSMOUTH, NH—In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Portsmouth Historical Society proudly announces “Threads: A Community Quilt for 2020.” The highlight of this special exhibition—opening in early July—will be a large quilt to be stitched together from individual squares created…
THREADS: A Community Quilt for 2020
Quilt Square Instructions: PDF Document Download Make your own square to show what you love about your community and mail it to the Portsmouth Historical Society by June 15th! DEADLINE EXTENDED! Please get your squares in the mail by JULY 13! Download the guidelines PDF for full details! While nothing like the current pandemic has…
“Don Gorvett: Working Waterfronts”
RESCHEDULED: Spring/Summer 2021Balcony Gallery at the Portsmouth Historical Society A Massachusetts native, Don was born in Boston in 1949 and spent his youth in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts. He loved the seashore where he swam and fished, and learned about New England’s seafaring industry. When his family moved to Burlington, Massachusetts, Gorvett’s high school art instructor…
“Twilight of American Impressionism”
RESCHEDULED: Spring/Summer 2021Academy Gallery at the Portsmouth Historical Society Alice Ruggles Sohier (1880–1969) and Frederick Andrew Bosley (1881–1942) were Tarbell students, trained at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Related by marriage (Frederick was Alice’s brother-in-law), each artist became a master of the so-called Boston School, creating landscapes, interiors, still lifes, portraits,…