David Rohn
The power of color
Emily Mason, the noted New York abstract painter and longtime half-year resident of West Brattleboro, is presenting a show of monoprints and monotypes at Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts on Main Street, up until Jan. 7.
The works, 40 of them, are basically paintings painted on a separate plate and then transferred to paper by running it through an etching press. There are often many layers, and the techniques have many elaborations. The gallery staff does quite a good job explaining how they are done. This print work has become an important sideline to her painting career.
Eclipsing experience
The air above the island was full of tiny specks, like a swarm of bees. On this day in 1970, in the only place in the country where it was visible, we were not the only ones interested in seeing the eclipse.
On March 7, 1970, I took off from the Claremont, N.H. airport in a rented Cessna 175 and headed for Nantucket Island to see the eclipse of the sun. The week before, I learned both of the coming eclipse and that its totality would miss the U.S., with the...