Artscope Magazine - December 3, 2009
The Light Lies Softly: The Impressionist Art of ClarkGreenwood Voorhees at Hawthorne Fine Art
The infamous tree in Rockefeller Center is lit (this year hailing from Easton, Connecticut), Broadway shows are selling out, the smell of roasted hazelnuts permeates the streets and train prices are looking pretty good when compared to air travel. There are plenty of reasons to head south to New York City this winter--but if you find yourself wandering the streets feeling like you're not in Kansas anymore, there's a familiar sight for New Englanders at Hawthorne Fine Art in Manhattan this season. Work by long- time Connecticut resident and much-collected impressionist painter Clark Greenwood Voorhees (1871-1933) is the center of attention at Hawthorne, a space specializing in nineteenth-century American painting, through February. Entitled The Light Lies Softly, the exhibit culls some of Voorhees' east coast work: scenes from Connecticut, Rhode Island and even Bermuda. Voorhees is known as one of the founding members of the Old Lyme Impressionist colony in Connecticut at the turn of the last century, and as such is widely collected by art institutions in the state. Look for his work in New York starting next Saturday, December 12th, for an opening reception and then from December 15th through February 27th.
