The Portland, ME Museum of Art will be presenting several summer exhibitions of interest to plein air painters. One features the work of Mildred Burrage (1890-1983) from April 21 - July 15, 2012; a second presents a private collection of paintings of the Normandy region in France (June 14 - September 3, 2012); a third highlights the relationship between Winslow Homer and The Portland Society of Art (July 28, 2012 - January 13, 2012); and a fourth show is titled “Maine Sublime: Frederick Edwin Church’s Landscapes of Mount Desert and Mount Katahdin (June 30 - September 30, 2012).

Next spring, the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine will present an exhibition of 70 paintings by Mildred Burrage, a remarkable woman who studied in Europe, created plein air oil paintings and filled sketchbooks while in France, met Claude Monet and Gertrude Stein, and returned to Maine to spearhead numerous preservation projects, including the establishment of the Lincoln County Cultural and Historical Association.