Charles DuBack, First House, 1957, oil on canvas, 53 x 37 3/4 inches. Courtesy of the artist

Charles DuBack (born 1926) first came to Maine from New York City in the mid-1950s. This exhibition features 34 paintings and collages focusing on his rarely shown, but pivotal, work from the late 1950s. The exhibition is complemented by a small selection of his more recent watercolors from 1998 depicting the woods that surround his home in Tenants Harbor. These two bodies of work, although separated by decades, are related in conception and are the result of DuBack’s response to the landscape of Maine. This is the Portland Museum of Art’s first exhibition devoted to that seminal period when New York post-war modernism arrived in Maine.

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