03/09/2022
📣 While our big screen is in hibernation, here is an amazing event going on in our town: THE WESTPORT IDEA at MoCA Westport.
❗️Open until Saturday, March 12th. This week is your last chance!
Westport’s heritage as an arts community is long-standing. As early as 1904, painters, sculptors, printmakers and illustrators gravitated to Westport, CT from New York City. A Bridgeport reporter noted in 1911, “there seems to be something in the air and scenery of this town which induces artists to settle within its limits.”
In 1931, “The Westport Idea” originated with Samuel Duff McCoy, a poet, biographer and newspaperman. Nowhere in the radius of New York, or any large city, was there a year-round community of artists. Forty-three artists and twelve writers joined together to create a collective that planned and exhibited together under McCoy’s leadership.
Featured 🎨: Lynsey Addario, Enrico Bai, Leonard Besser, Ralph L. Boyer, Paul Camacho, Carlotta Corpron, Ann Chernow, Adger Cowans, Charles Daugherty, James H. Daugherty, Lisa Daugherty, Steven Dohanos, Jim Dine, Walter Einsel, Sam Francis, Elaine Kaufman Feiner, Leonard Everett Fisher, Davira Fisher, Lillian Freedgood, Christa Forrest, Jerri Graham, Hardie Gramatky, Charley Harper, Howard Heath, Richard Hunt, Robert Indiana, Albert Drexler Jacobson, Lester Frederick Johnson, Asger Jorn, Charles Joyner, Alex Katz, Nicholas Krushenick, Estelle Thompson Margolis, Henri Matisse, Joan Mitchell, Norma Minkowitz, László Moholy-Nagy, Enid Munroe, Fred Otnes, Gabor Peterdi, Mel Ramos, Baroness Hilla von Rebay, Robert Rauschenberg, Barbara Rothenberg, Lucy Sallick, Larry Rivers, Larry Silver, Victor Vasarely, Tom Wesselmann, Jean Woodham
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