Marblehead Watercolors
Opens May 29

 

Ingrid Selmer-Larsen, (1913-2005) was an accomplished decorative artist, and the youngest founding member of the Marblehead Arts Association. 

Selmer-Larsen’s niece, Ann Whittier recalls, “Her real passion was capturing the beauty of nature in watercolor. As a young woman, she would row out to one of the islands off shore and spend the day painting. Over time, she perfected the art of depicting water and sky.”
 “She showed such great promise with her art work, that in 1930, her family raised enough money to send her to the School at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 1933, the Museum School featured one of her design works in their annual catalogue. Two years later, she went to Paris to study at the famed Fontainbleau Ecole des Beaux Arts.”

“Returning home,” continues Whittier, “she was invited by Roosevelt’s W.P.A. to participate in the Federal Art Project, helping create the Index of American Design, now part of the National Gallery of Art. One of her woodblocks “Fish” hangs in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.”

 

 

The exhibition runs
through August, 2008