Little, Carl (von Kienbusch) 1954–

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Little, Carl (von Kienbusch) 1954–

PERSONAL: Born June 19, 1954, in New York, NY; son of John Watson and Juliana Patience (Kiensbusch) Little; married Margaret Ann Beaulac, June 10, 1985; children: Emily Bradford, James Lamson. Education: Dartmouth College, B.A., 1976; Columbia University, M.F.A., 1980; Middlebury College, M.A., 1986.

ADDRESSES: Home—Somesville, Mt. Desert Island, ME. Office—Maine Community Foundation, 245 Main St., Ellsworth, ME 04605. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York, NY, research assistant, 1980–84; Art in America (magazine), New York, NY, associate editor, 1986–88; Windswept House Publications, Mt. Desert, ME, editor, 1990–92; College of the Atlantic Bay Harbor, Maine, director of public affairs, beginning 1992; Maine Community Foundation, Ellsworth, ME, director of communications and marketing. Member of council of advisors, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, 1995; member of publications committee, Island Institute, Rockland, 1996; member of board of directors, Harbour House, Southwest Harbor, ME, 1997.

AWARDS, HONORS: Rising Star Award, Council for the Advancement of Secondary Education, 1997.

WRITINGS:

Edward Hopper's New England, Pomegranate Art-books (San Francisco, CA), 1993.

Winslow Homer and the Sea, Pomegranate Artbooks (Rohnert Park, CA), 1995.

Paintings of New England, edited by Arnold Skolnick, Down East Books (Camden, ME), 1996.

Art of the Maine Islands, picture editing by Arnold Skolnick, Down East Books (Camden, ME), 1997.

The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent, picture editing and design by Arnold Skolnick, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1998.

Beverly Hallam: Odyssey in Art, Whalesback Books (Washington, DC), 1998.

The Art of Maine in Winter, picture editing by Arnold Skolnick, Down East Books (Camden, ME), 2002.

(Author of text, with Aprile Gallant and Shirley Jacks) Bernard Langlais: Independent Spirit, Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME), 2002.

The Art of Monhegan, edited by Arnold Skolnick, Down East Books (Camden, ME), 2004.

(Author of essay) Painting Maine: The Borrowed Views of Connie Hayes, Borrowed Views Press (Rockland, ME), 2004.

Also author of introduction to Paintings of Maine, edited by Arnold Skolnick, C. Potter (New York, NY), 1991, and of foreword to Lawrence C. Goldsmith: A Life in Watercolor, Hudson Hills Press (New York, NY), 2004.

SIDELIGHTS: An expert on the art and artists of Maine, Carl Little has written or contributed to numerous books on these subjects. Edward Hopper's New England, for example, is a collection of thirty-five seascapes and landscapes inspired by Hopper's summer visits to the coast of Maine, Vermont, and Cape Cod and Gloucester, Massachusetts. The book also includes an essay by Little. Writing in Library Journal, Kathleen Eagen Johnson described the volume as a "handsomely designed picture book."

Little provides a commentary on thirty-three works in Winslow Homer and the Sea. Homer's paintings range from his seashore depictions drawn for journals to the dynamic Maine seascapes and Caribbean watercolors of his later years. Little provides insights to the artist's life and travels and also notes Homer's particular fondness for locations of peace and solitude in Maine. In Beverly Hallam: Odyssey in Art, Little chronicles Hallam's evolution as an artist and her airbrush techniques. The book includes sixty color plates. A Publishers Weekly contributor related that Hallam is best known for her pictures of flowers, photo-realist mixtures "of color, shadows, and raking light."

The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent features works the noted portrait painter created while in Northern Africa, Palestine, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, and the Canadian Rockies. Little's other art books include The Art of Maine in Winter, which contains ninety works by painters such as Homer and Rockwell Kent, and The Art of Monhegan, which traces the artistic and cultural roots that make the island of Monhegan a favorite subject of and living place for artists.