MAINE Monhegan Island ART Leo Meissner ARTIST

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ORIGINAL Five-Page ARTICLE (not a copy) - from vintage magazine - 1969 THE MAINE DIRECTION OF LEO MEISSNER'S ART *** by Isabel Currier Very interesting article about this Maine Artist - and his work - filled with facts, details and narratives - and accompanied by great illustrations of his work - which include: RITA'S WINDOW (shown at bottom) ..... Wood Engraving of a weather-beaten spruce tree in backyard of Meissner's Monhegan home...... KELP WASH - a Meissner seascape in the medium of a wood engraving..... LEO MEISSNER at work in his Cape Elizabeth studio...... BUNNY MEISSNER - the artist's wife, admiring Monhegan's Rosa Rugosa bloom... etc. ".....the name of LEO MEISSNER, internationally-known painter and wood engravr, is inseparably linked with Monhegan Island, Maine.....for forty-five consecutive summers and a few winters - Meissner, sketchbook in hand, has scrambled over the rocks and wandered the rugged trails of Monhegan, finding an inexhaustible source of subject matter in the patterns of nature, dwellings, and people......." BUYER PAYS $2.50 shipping/handling. SEE MY AUCTIONS more early articles - SAVE ON COMBINED SHIPPING. #6910