Dispatch 05
October 2023

In the News
The September 21st edition of the The Lincoln County News featured a cover story by reporter Elizabeth Walztoni on the Trust’s evolving journey of discovery and our efforts to bring David Hanna’s artwork back to the public realm. The Lincoln County News, founded in 1875, is the principal newspaper of Lincoln County, Maine, which includes various towns where the artist lived and worked including Pemaquid, Round Pond, Newcastle and Damariscotta.

Featured Artworks
In Low Tide at Damariscotta and Interior Cabin, Low Tide at Damariscotta, David Hanna captured the 1885 two-masted schooner that sank in Misery Gulch in Damariscotta, Maine in the 1970s. The paintings depict a bygone age, the ravages of time and sea, and the impermanence of all objects.

Curator Barbara Jones and fine art photographer John White documented the works on behalf of the David Hanna Trust. Barbara shared: “Low Tide at Damariscotta resides in a unique owner-designed home on a peaceful lake in western New York state. While the Trust was aware of the painting in this collection, a surprise discovery was a smaller painting by the artist of the interior of the same schooner. In Low Tide, the schooner and seashore setting exhibit all the meticulous detail and muted color in drybrush watercolor that is Hanna’s trademark style. In contrast, Interior, with its muted color palette and minimal detail, is presented in a more abstract way, offering simultaneous views of both the interior of the cabin and a view outside of a beached dory.”

Message from The Trust
My earliest memories were formed during our family’s years living at the lightkeeper’s house at Pemaquid Point Light. Three-year-old me was the luckiest girl in the world to live in a fairy-tale castle on the edge of the sea. We moved to Maine from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania so my father could pursue his painting full time. After four magical years at Pemaquid, we moved to a house we built in Round Pond and became part of the fabric of the special community of Lincoln County, Maine. My time in the county over the past several months has brought a renewed sense of purpose and deeper knowledge of my father’s life and career. I enjoyed frequent drives across the Damariscotta River, the backdrop for Low Tide at Damariscotta, featured in this issue, and walks at Pemaquid Point where the painting was one of many David Hanna works completed in his studio there.

The David Hanna Trust continues our effort to document works and appreciates the ongoing support from our growing community of private collectors, institutions, and friends old and new.

Warmly,