Rockland - In the 1950s and early '60s, artists based in New York City's famous wine in Maine, by the climate of the summer, varied and colorful landscape and relatively cheap real estate attracted. Many years back (some still do). And a few Hardy from his home in Maine.
Among them was Anne Ayvaliotis Washington, who died on March 90. His oil paintings and old drawings on paper in the second floor Yvette Torres Fine Art to fill in Rockland Centre, where "Anne Ayvaliotis, a celebration of life of the artist" the end of season extends until the gallery on 16 October
"This group of artists who came to Lincoln - Lois Dodd, Yvonne Jacquette, a whole list of them - and Charlie came Duback Tenants Harbor ... Anne and Charlie were two who remained, but will not go back to New York" Torres, the scorer of Joseph Fiore and Nancy Freeman Ayvaliotis said.
"It was a lively scene," she said. "They had a party! Charlie a masked ball in the summer is to be used on their property".
Duback died last year at 89 Torres she did not say it was the end of an old era not call because the paintings are still alive, but knowledge and passion that is output generated.
"We have a lot of them lost in three or four years ... there was so much in his head and voila! They were disciplined painter, painted every day," he said.
Although Ayvaliotis was "a very important part of the whole group," Torres said he, the artist felt a little was negligent.
"I do not know what it was, it was a very good, very respected painter and taught for many years," Torres .. "She has always said. And they sold to work in museums, Portland and Farnsworth I think that it deserves a lot more recognition. "
Who recognizes through the gallery walk the Ayvaliotis to Maine moved with her husband and son in 1963 and has never looked back. The country is divided to his home in Washington, outside Old Union Road, and animals with the full screens and celebrated with thick lines and strong colors. The Ayvaliotis works on paper, charcoal and pastel, are on the same subjects. Several museums - Hill View Clary including; and horses, cows and foal - are raised repeatedly, showing his emotional power for the artist.
"Passionate World Anne perspectives, sometimes delirium in the beauty around us, and sometimes the pain plaintive and suffering around us could not recover," said Cynthia Hyde, artist and owner of Caldbeck Gallery skirt with Kinnealey husband Jim, both lifelong friends of deceased artist.
The Caldbeck Ayvaliotis represented since 1985, but the artist owner / gallery was really friendship was cemented by his birthday.
"Anne was on July 15, the mine is 16 July and Jim is on 17 July," Hyde said. "We were three Therefore, water babies, sometimes unpleasant, artistic and emotional, loving home."
This house was violently in love with Ayvaliotis that his farm would not leave in recent years, despite the increasing inability.
"She was in Washington, until very near the end," Torres said. "It's a nice little house with land around it, which is a part of everything that in her is very ... for their art something special. He painted what was around him."
Rural areas have presented quite a contrast to what was around the artist in New York.
"She was really the city, studied with Hans Hofmann, the Art Students League, the whole thing, and she was a part of all of this amount," Torres said.
As for why outside of Maine is Ayvaliotis not known, or even kept within the state, it has a theory.
"In a way, I think it was because she painted all the time! It was not a self-promoter," said Torres.
Ayvaliotis began his career Maine studio in a barn; They also had a small studio in the house, upstairs. And after a few years, she and her husband, the late Herbert Rowe, built a studio on the ground, bucolic farm walk.
"She was a very passionate painter," Torres said, highlighting a painting Clary Hill view over and over again. "If you want to see in these charcoal drawings, also, it looks very much!"
Ayvaliotis also learned a lot of New York, whether exclusive Dalton School and the refuge of detention. She taught for many years in the Farnsworth Art Museum in rock paintings, where he also served on the advisory board; Antigua Gallery Waldoboro; and former Round Top Center for the Arts in Damariscotta. She was also a member of the jury of the shows gallery of ancient art in Wiscasset Maine in the Union Nearby Salon. It served as a panelist in Round Top and O'Farrell Gallery in Brunswick ... and as artist in residence at the school in his hometown of Washington.
"A celebration of life of an artist" is the second exhibition of the work in Ayvaliotis Yvette Torres Fine Art, mounted in cooperation with the Caldbeck Gallery. Before moving to Maine, the artist has shown in both solo and group exhibitions in New York, Mexico and Massachusetts in Maine, has seen their work from Portland to Machias;. and Belfast (Frick, Artfellows), Rockport (Maine Center for Contemporary Art), Waldoboro and Damariscotta; in Waterville, Augusta and Hallowell.
"You checked for many years, she was very picky about the shows," Torres said, a contemporary art gallery and Rockland Maine Damariscotta was.
"I knew these people, like Nancy and Anne and Joe and they were in modern times, when they were still alive, but also observed in the mid-century and Art Black Mountain College," Torres said.
He said he feels there a new resurgence of people who work from the artists, the most famous of them American abstract expressionism are very expensive.
"I think there is a greater response to this work, and also young collectors," she said: "I like this time I love this artist.."
It was for many love both Ayvaliotis and his work in evidence when the show opened in the week after Labor Day. Torres said to his friends and fellow artists, who still made around it a point to be there for the "celebration".
"We just kept in the center is open and people say stories of Anne, people who have known him for years and years," he said, adding: "And it is still there," as it has a portrait Ayvaliotis auto "in the hat" in the studio barn.
"His work us all inspired, and inspired teaching their students to put their worries aside. No matter what happened, Anne true friend was," Hyde said.
The show Yvette Torres Fine Arts had already been planned, died as Ayvaliotis and with the consent of the artist's family, stepped forward. Torres said that there is much more work to be seen; that will remain in the rotation schedule and be drawn in group exhibitions in his case.
"The family has reserved a part of themselves, to repair some needs, but it's a little work at first, I am eager to show, I hope you can," said Torres .. "is very different, is from the 50's maybe the painting of the 60s on the paper. "
And there are files much to do. was revered as artists Black Mountain College Torres Ayvaliotis focused documentation job or the promotion to create.
"They did not believe that the work was valuable - it was not about money and fame, he was at work," Torres said.
Although Yvette Torres Art is closed after October 16 for the season, "Anne Ayvaliotis, a celebration of life of an artist" by the end of the last stage is Arts in Rockland remain walking art, of the year, a day next Thanksgiving, while the open the Gallery 464 Main St .. meanwhile, however, the show seen by chance or appointment (call 332-4014) almost every time, Torres said.
"I think I should get the recognition he had not when she was still alive - the type of recognition of his important painter Maine before," he said.
By Kimi Clark 
