AFA Autumn 2021

2021 Antiques & Fine Art 53 Fig. 7: Donald Allen Mosher (1945–2014), Harbor View, 2013. Oil on canvas, 31½ x 38 inches. Courtesy of the Mosher Estate. as the sailing craft in his Boats, Rockport (Fig. 2) could have been moored at Monhegan. Wherever he worked Hudson painted and photographed the architecture of boats that, in the words of one critic, “ride the waves . . . like the heavily built craft that they are.” Women have always been well represented in these colonies, Eric Hudson’s daughter among them. Jacqueline (Jackie) Hudson (1910– 2001), landscape painter and printmaker, spent much of her life on Monhegan. Her two works in the show diverge sharply in content. Her energetic Church Fair, Main Street, Rockport (Fig. 3) is a colorful, optimistic view of Cape people at play. Her watercolor, Storm in Monhegan Harbor (Fig. 4), is dramatically different. The colors are menacingly dreary, and what looks like an eastern-rig dragger is about to be swirled into a vortex or dashed upon Smutty Nose. On the right, the gantry or “gallows frame,” beneath which visitors, notably absent here, first step onto the island, is stark against the gloom. European-trained Boston School artist and Cape Ann resident, Aldro T. Hibbard’s (1886–1972) pair of scenes record the difference between wintery Rockport harbor architecture, in this case, a shed known to artists and public alike as Motif No. 1 (Fig. 5) and a view of crashing surf at Monhegan. Among other