Maine Memory Network

L.D.M. Sweat Memorial Gallery, Portland, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1922 Location: Portland Media: Linen texture postcard

Maine artists, Wiscasset, 1958

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1960 Location: Wiscasset Media: Photographic print

Lorenzo De Medici Sweat Memorial, Portland, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909–1966 Location: Portland; Portland Client: Portland Society of Art Architect: John Calvin Stevens

L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Galleries, Portland, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Portland; Portland Client: Portland Society of Art Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Capturing Arts and Artists in the 1930s

Emmie Bailey Whitney of the Lewiston Journal Saturday Magazine and her husband, noted amateur photographer G. Herbert Whitney, captured in words and photographs the richness of Maine's arts scene during the Great Depression.

Art of the People: Folk Art in Maine

For many different reasons people saved and carefully preserved the objects in this exhibit. Eventually, along with the memories they hold, the objects were passed to the Maine Historical Society. Object and memory, serve as a powerful way to explore history and to connect to the lives of people in the past.

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… 1909 perspective drawing of the Sweat Memorial Gallery, now part of the Portland Museum of Art. The impressive 1909 watercolor for the Portland…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Interior plans, Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"… The plans of the vestry, main floor, and gallery vestibule of the Third Parish Church on French Street in Bangor are part of a journal that John…"

William Manning in conversation with Christopher Crosman
by William Manning and Christopher Crosman

A conversation between an artist and art historian

My Africa Book and living in Portland
by Titi de Baccarat

My art is about being an immigrant in the US, my pain, fear, uncertainty, and hope for my future