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Bettinson: Ravensbrück Series
Mathias Fine Art is honored and delighted to collaborate with HHRC at the time of the center’s 40 anniversary by providing a loan exhibition: Bettinson: Ravensbrück Series. Bettinson’s last series of 17 paintings will be on public view in Maine for the first time after being shown at Pace University in New York in 2024.
The Holocaust and Human Rights Center
The Michael Klahr Center
The University of Maine at Augusta
46 University Drive
Augusta, Maine 04330 (207)621-3530 info@hhrcmaine.org www.hhrcmaine.org
exhibition dates: June 12 – September 5
opening reception & gallery talk: June 12, 5:00 – 6:30 pm Ms Mathias, administrator of the Bettinson Art and Literary Trust, presents information about the genesis of this series and its significance to the Bettinson oeuvre. Bettinson’s death mask, cast in bronze, will be unveiled at this time.
image information: Bettinson (2017) Ravensbrück Series #15: Kommandant (1942 to 45) acrylic on board 15½ x 12” (39,4 x 30,5cm) mounted on wooden panel 24 x 18” (61 x 46 cm) © Bettinson Art & Literary Trust, 2025 all rights reserved Photo credit: Melville McLean, 2025
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BRLT Preserve Sponsorship
As part of our community involvement, Mathias Fine Art is pleased to announce the continuing sponsorship of the Oven’s Mouth Preserve. We treasure the stewardship work of Boothbay Region Land Trust and hope that you will visit this and other preserves under their care. Enjoy!
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RELIEF – an exploration
FOLDING BIRDS FOR PEACE
WORKSHOP: Sept 25th 2024, 3-5pm
You are invited to participate in a special event conducted by Mona Shiber whose work is currently on display at Mathias Fine Art. Shiber has been deeply affected by the events in the Middle East and has teamed up with JunPong Lin to make a creative statement for peace in the face of the devastating destruction which is taken place. The PeaceBird Project seeks to create a representation for every life lost in the current conflict or as the artist says “every life flown too soon.”
The work shop will teach you to fold doves and cranes using special papers. Please send us an e-mail to reserve your space for the workshop, space is limited. $25/person, 2/$40. The fee includes materials. We look forward to seeing you there.
info@mathiasfineart.com
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RELIEF – an exploration
exhibition dates: through September 29
gallery hours: Wed-Sun 12-5
Mathias Fine Art is currently showing RELIEF – an exploration. Max Bartsch, Brenda Bettinson, Kimberly, Michael Culver, Bonnie Ewald, Brigitte Keller, Kate Marohn, Antoinette Prien Schultze, Mona Shiber and Ivan Valtchev, the featured artists are dedicated professionals who are no strangers to creative exploration. A gallery talk is scheduled for 7/17 at 3:30-4:15pm and a reception will take place on 8/22 at 4:30-6:30pm. Please join us.
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The Road to Calvary (1979)
Brenda Bettinson
This is a model for one of two Bettinson paintings commissioned for installation in the meditation room at Calvary Hospital, Bronx, NY.
The fully executed painting is irregular in shape; it measures 7½’ x 20′ (2,25 x 6 m). The second panel is entitled The 15th Station of the Cross: Resurrection; it measures 96 x 42″ (2,4 x 1,05 m). Both works are painted with acrylic on masonite and are dated 1979. As in other panels from this period, Bettinson’s larger-than-life figures are informed by a solid foundation of human anatomy while facial features and skin color are left in the realm of universality. Texture from the gesso ground and uneven application of paint adds visual interest.
The paintings were removed from the meditation room sometime in the early eighties.
If you have any information about their current whereabouts and/or the circumstances or the timing of removal, Mathias Fine Art would be most grateful to hear from you. Such information will remain confidential. Please contact us through this website or by phone or mail.
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Paul Feyling
PAUL FEYLING has won numerous awards for his documentary films; he brings the same excellence and vividness to his still photography. His prints of the night sky have been highly praised and are much sought after. During the summers which he spends on Barter’s Island in Maine he has produced many studies of the island environment which are redolent with coastal atmosphere. He has captured the flamboyant sunsets, the tristesse of misty evenings, weathered man-made structures and the never ending interaction of sky and sea.
Recently he and Brenda Bettinson collaborated to produce the exhibitions Double Vision and Double Vision Encore which featured comparative approaches to island subjects. Double Vision, a 14 minute DVD of the exhibit with commentary, is available from Mathias Fine Art.
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Brenda Bettinson
BRENDA BETTINSON has exhibited extensively in Europe and the US. She has had one–person showings of her work in prestigious galleries and museums, such as in Maine, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. Her work hangs in numerous public and private collections.
Bettinson’s Ravensbrück Series will be on view at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center (HHRC) Michael Klahr Center University of Maine at Augusta 46 University Drive Augusta June 13 – September 5, 2025
Throughout her more than 70 year career Brenda’s art has constantly developed; stylistic changes reflect her intense analytical interest in visual perception and her understanding of the human form as the vehicle of painterly expression.
Her biography may be found in Who’s Who in American Art and North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century; in 2017 BETTINSON was named inductee, World Lifetime Achievement, Marquis Who’s Who.
image info: Bettinson with her Three Goddesses (Trojan War Series) water-based media, 22¾ x 29½ (57,6cm x 74,7cm), © 2008, Mathias Fine Art.
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