Image: Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth, ME
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art will present 'Ragna Bruno: Boundless' from July 15 to August 10, 2026, with an opening reception scheduled for Wednesday, July 22, from 5 to 7 pm. The exhibition is framed as a celebration of Ragna Bruno (1935–2026) and the final twenty-three oil paintings she created before her death in April 2026.
According to the gallery’s exhibition text, the works were painted on Japanese paper in Bruno’s studio and are described as inviting a “poetic, open-ended, meditative experience.” The presentation focuses on a late body of work completed in the quiet of her Hancock, Maine, studio, and it brings together paintings that the gallery says resonate with themes of life and memory.
Courthouse Gallery’s email announcement and exhibition page both emphasize the finality of the project. Rather than presenting a broad survey of Bruno’s career, the show centers on the last paintings she made, positioning them as a concentrated group of works that reflect the artist’s late practice. Several titles are listed on the exhibition page, including 'Night Stars', 'Blue Abstraction A', 'Figure in Profile', 'Meditating', 'Offering', 'Abstraction with Orange', 'Horse', and 'Abstract Landscape'.
The gallery also includes a quotation from Bruno’s 2019 exhibition catalog interview with arts writer Daniel Kany. In that interview, Bruno says, “I draw freely without preconceived thoughts, then there are no boundaries and anything can happen.” Kany, in the same catalog context quoted by the gallery, wrote that Bruno’s paintings allow her to incorporate “memories, experiences, love; however bittersweet,” and present “an affirming exaltation of life.”
The exhibition page identifies the venue as Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Vancouver, BC, and the event dates are listed as July 15 through August 10, 2026. The opening reception is set for July 22, 5–7 pm. The gallery’s online presentation also notes that some of the works shown are marked sold, while others remain available with listed prices.
Bruno’s practice in this exhibition is represented through small-scale oil paintings on Japanese paper, many of them in the 8 x 10.625-inch range, alongside others at slightly larger dimensions. The listing underscores the intimacy of the format and the directness of the medium, with the gallery presenting the group as the final chapter of Bruno’s painting life rather than as a retrospective overview.
