Art Show | written by: DARIENMAGAZINECT.COM STAFF | paintings courtesy: GEARY GALLERY
FISH ISLAND by Peter Arguimbau
John Frederick Kensett, world-famous master of luminism in American landscape painting, called Darien one of the finest coastlines in New England to paint, according to Darien Town Historian Marian Castell. Among the first residents of Contentment Island in the late 1860s, Kensett spent the last summer of his life in 1872 painting there. You’ll find one of the works from this time – Twilight on the Sound, Darien, Connecticut – at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.
And while Darien may not (yet) have achieved the artistic renown of Cos Cob, Silvermine, Westport, Old Lyme, Mystic and Kent – Connecticut’s most famous art colonies, there are plenty of Darien artists – past and present – who have seen the light in our town, as Mr. Kensett once did.
A sampling here from Geary Gallery, 576 Boston Post Road, Darien, CT.
Morning at Great Island by Chet Sauer
Silver and Oysters by Mary Morant
Beach by Mary Morant
Scott’s Cove at Sunset by Peter Arguimbau
Passing the Light by Chet Sauer
