Farnsworth Art Museum and Wyeth Center Campus

Farnsworth Art Museum and Wyeth Center Campus
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An interest in great works of art as well as people and the way they live will help you appreciate this unusual gallery since the lives of two very different women, Lucy Farnsworth and Christina Olson, are linked here. Ms. Farnsworth, was a wealthy business-woman who lived her entire 86 years in the elegant house that, by her request, is preserved in the middle of Rockland. She donated the funds to establish the Farnsworth Library and Museum as a tribute to her father. After fifty years of fulfilling that purpose by exhibiting beautiful paintings of various artists, the museum was given a major boost in the art world with the opening of The Wyeth Center. Ms. Olson's fame did not come from her money but from her person, which inspired Andrew Wyeth to paint "her world", which was a simple house overlooking the St. George estuary in Cushing, ME. Paintings of N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth are exhibited in the old Pratt Memorial Methodist Church building.	Farnsworth Art Museum and Wyeth Center Campus 356 Main Street Rockland, ME 04841

Directions: Rockland, ME in the block bounded by Main, Elm, Museum and Union streets.

Seasonal operation with complicated schedule of hours and admissions for various portions of the Museum. Call for information: 207-596-6457


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