Eastport MAINE

Historic District  EASTPORT MAINE  Tides Museum, K. Sparenborg
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The Director of the Tides Museum & Institute of Art, reflecting on my This is Savannah Vol. 2 book, asked if I would consider making similar drawings for another town - in particular, a small water town on the northeast coast of Maine called Eastport. Dream job? Yes! 


Eastport boomed in the late 1800s with ship-building, sustained through the mid-1900s with sardine-canning, but slumbered as industry went quiet in the later 1900s.  With an eye toward preservation of the architectural fabric of Eastport's Water Street and an investment in the capacity of art to engender architectural appreciation and preservationist sentiment, I was asked to draw the streetscape at Eastport's heart to produce a Print for sale and museum exhibition. It is finally finished and a big box of prints is on their way to Maine!

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