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Berkshire Landscape Artist Featured in Harrison Gallery Exhibition

'Stream Golds' by John MacDonald

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Landscape paintings by John MacDonald – one of the region’s most popular, prolific and respected landscape artists – are featured in an exhibition currently running at The Harrison Gallery through November 30, 2011. McDonald has staked out the Berkshires as his favorite terrain, painting portraits of the area as it appears in…

Regional Artists Featured in Painting and Sculpture Exhibition

'Comfort in Knowing' by Nick Patten

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) The Harrison Gallery will present a show of two gallery favorites: realist painter Nick Patten and bronze sculptor Susan Read Cronin. The artists will attend the opening reception on Saturday, October 1, 2011, from 5 until 7 pm. Nick Patten paints the interiors of rooms in old houses with direct and reflected light…

BerkshireWeekend Cultural Highlights Aug 4-9, 2011

Lia Ices

The week’s cultural higlights offer eclecticism and diversity, ranging from new avant-garde classical music at Tanglewood as part of the Contemporary Music Festival to avant-garde dance with ping-pong balls at Jacob’s Pillow to avant-pop vocals by Lia Ices at Club Helsinki Hudson to luminous landscapes at Harrison Gallery to neo-Victorianism at Norman Rockwell Museum to…

Luminous Landscapes at Harrison Gallery

Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, "Light Over the Hill Days End"

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The Harrison Gallery will present Luminous Landscapes, an exhibition of landscape paintings by Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, a master in the art of luminous painting, from August 6 through August 31. The artist will be attending the show’s opening reception on Saturday, August 6, from 5 to 7 pm. In the paintings of Jane Bloodgood-Abrams,…

New Women’s Boutique Sparks Life into Spring Street

Ruby Sparks on Spring Street, Williamstown, Mass.

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – “Women are digging in their heels,” says Jo Ellen Harrison, owner of Ruby Sparks, a new women’s clothing store that opened on Easter weekend on Spring Street. “They’re tired of buying clothes in big box mall stores. They’re looking for a more personal experience with smaller, locally owned stores that bring back…

Blockbuster Art Show Commemorates Gallery’s First Decade

Paul's Rocket at First Light #141

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Harrison Gallery celebrates its tenth anniversary starting Saturday, July 2, with a retrospective exhibition featuring artists whose work has been shown in the gallery over the past ten years, including such prominent names as Stephen Hannock, John MacDonald, Hale Johnson, Nick Patten, Wayne Thiebaud and Susie Cronin. All four rooms of the…

Berkshire Weekend Cultural Preview June 2-5

REALIST PAINTING at HARRISON GALLERY Generation II by Judith Solomon The Harrison Gallery will present a group show of realist painting by five masters of the genre – Hale Johnson, John MacDonald, Nick Patten, Judith Solomon, Kim Denise, and Carol Gobin, opening with an artists reception on Saturday, June 4, at 5. The exhibition runs…