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The Ogunquit Museum of American Art has announced its 2027 exhibitions, including ‘Elwyn George Gowen: Artist and Educator,’ which is scheduled to run from April 23 through July 18, 2027. The exhibition will explore the networks of arts education that connected artists, designers, and institutions across early twentieth-century New England.
Gowen graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1918, where he received highest honors and trained in the principles of color, composition, and design. He continued his studies at the New York School of Interior Decoration, worked as an assistant to Harvard’s Dr. Denman W. Ross, an influential theorist of color, and collaborated with Jay Hambidge on the principles of Dynamic Symmetry.
His design practice encompassed textiles and interior decoration, earning him the Degree of Master Craftsman from The Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston. In 1932, Gowen joined an outdoor painting class with Charles H. Woodbury in Ogunquit, Maine, an experience that redirected his career toward landscape and seascape painting. In 1935, Woodbury invited him to become an instructor and associate at his Ogunquit and Boston studios.
Gowen taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and other art schools and private studios throughout Maine and Massachusetts, eventually serving as Artist in Residence at Nasson College in Sanford, Maine. The announcement highlights Elwyn George Gowen’s ‘North West Day,’ dated 1936 and painted in oil on canvas.
His career offers a distinctive lens through which to understand Ogunquit not as an isolated space of summer learning, but as part of a broader ecosystem of art education in New England, in which ideas about design, color, composition, and painting circulated among schools, museums, artists, and independent studios.
