Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-20
Belfast Artist Achieves
Success in Reproducing
NaSsau's Beautiful COlors

Success in Reproducing
Nassau's Beautiful Colors
For the first time in his long and
successful career as water color
artist, Hart L. Woodcock will exhibit
outside of Bangor and his own home
city. He has been invited to hold an
exhibit OF his work at The kineo.
Moosehead Lake, and will probably
do so. There is a bare possibility of
his taking in some of the other Rick
er hotels but he has mapped out a
very strenuous summer at his Guam
tibacook studio and it will take near
~ all of his time to finish up his ord
ers and get out others for his next
seasons exhibitions in the South.
He has just returned from Nassau
where for the past Is or 20 years he
has wintered and where he has for
years vainly attempted to reproduce
on canvas the beautiful opalescent
tlnts of the waters which make the
harbor at Nassau famous The story
of the old lady on hec first visit there
IS an old one but will bear repeating
III this case to illustrate the point She
looked from her window on the day of
her arrival and noting the beautiful
shades and colors in the water called
o bell boy and asked him to take bot
lies and bring 10 her some of each
color TO take home with her.
Now for a great many years Mr..
Woodcock has been trying to do this
he i,,yo j
and tourists of Nassau. bottle up on
canvas the various 'colors of the wa
ter for them to take home with them.
At last he believes he has accom-
p!lshed this feat. This is how he did
it.
Heretofore" he said to the Journal
representative, Il have painted the
colors that | saw, the vivid greens,
and blues, not realizing that l should
aod the pink which the eye supplies
ana TINS made some Of my green wa
tiers and purple skies look like a riot
or exaggerated color. when in reality
what | saw was nothing of the sort.
Now by the addition of the pink, the
colors are softened and / believe that
after 20 years | ha e achieved what |
have so long striven for
Il was the last to leave the ba lIroom
floor, my partner and | on the night of
the burning of the famous old Colo
mai Hotel and never have l seen
confagration which literally burned
like finder before. The fire started in
the drying room of the laundry and
the buildings built of yellow pine were
soon a raging furnace Fortunately
dld not have my studio in the hotel
TINS year and so did not lose anv Of
my collection. One of the saddest
sights was the destruction of the mag
innocent gardens which surround the
hotel. every plant of which was y
specimen. At first it was feared that
1t could never be restored but with
Nature and Maurice Clavel, the Gre
lator of the world famous gardens T
| believe they will be. Maurice is on
tlmlstic and he knows his business.
Every plant and shrub in that garden
mad been forced to absolute perfection
/ by this famous Swiss gardener and
Just before the fire it was perfect
blaze Of color.
- .'N7' Sou tdH ScL all YOU want
, 70 dr.AN IN Nassau, liquors Of an
KINDS but | did not see an intoxjca ted
American said Mr.. Woodcock. not
Withstandlns it is so dry here. When
the States prohibited the sale of all
. hquors 1t was the means of Nassau
coming INTO her own for she was in
debt to the extent of half a million
dollars. and now thanks TO American
prohibition, the debt is not ONLY maid
! put new postoffice. wireless station
and roads have been built and a mill
non dollar appropriation for the
dredging of the harbor has been made
II IS now said to be the richest place
m the world per capita. 1t is said
] however that more crime has been
committed recently in Nassau than in
all its history. BootIeucers in craft
OIL all Kinds swarm the harbors. and
Il short time ago quart of Scotch
could be bought for eight or ten or
twelve shillincS"
Among the Maine people in Nassau
during Mr.. WoodCock's STAY were Az
thur 9. staples Of the Lewiston Jour
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and a former Bangor man. Or VIII
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