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May 18, 2024 · “Celebrating Motif No. 1.” 4 – 6 PM | 8 Dock Square. See the latest Motif No. 1 painting and receive 20% off all available giclée prints. 10% of sales from the day to go to benefit The Open Door! https://www.artofdavid.com
Apr 30, 2021 · This year’s poster theme is fitting: Save Motif 1 Day! The festival that defines the unique spirit of Rockport has now been quarantined (so to speak) for two years. Rockport Exchange would love to bring Motif No. 1 Day back in 2022, but we need your help!
May 15, 2024 · This all-day event takes place Saturday in downtown Rockport, starting at 9 a.m. with the annual Motif No. 1 road race, followed by a full slate of events, live music, and children’s...
- History of Motif No. 1
- Peaceful Coexistence
- A Sore Red Thumb
- Fame
- Yelp!
The shack was originally built circa 1884-85, according to L.M. Vincent in In Search of Motif No. 1: The History of a Fish Shack. Today’s Motif (or “Motive,” as the locals call it) is actually a replica. Rockport rebuilt it after the Blizzard of ’78destroyed the first one. Motif No. 1 was first used for storing gear and fish. In the 1890s, the U.S....
For decades Motif No. 1 ‘settled into a peaceful coexistence’ with fishermen and tourists, even after the naval fleet stopped visiting in the 1930s, wrote Bartlett. It continued to attract plein air painters. Finally, the artist John Buckleybought the shack in the 1930s to use as his studio. Then in 1933, the little fish shack became the toast of t...
You can see Motif No. 1 from just about everywhere on Rockport Harbor. As a result, one critic said it “sticks out like a sore red thumb.” It got the formula for its trademark weathered red look in 1942 from a well-known artist, Aldro Hibbard.He liked to paint outdoors in winter and started the Rockport Summer School of Painting. According to Bartl...
On April 4, 2002, Motif No. 1 graced a postage stamp as part of the postal service’s “Greetings from America” series. The postal servicecommissioned artists to create stamps with a vintage look similar to 1940s postcards. So artists designed stamps featuring Motif No. 1 and Mount Greylock, representing eastern and western Massachusetts. Motif No. 1...
Motif No. 1 has now entered the Internet Age now, inspiring snarky comments on Yelp: Um, come on Rockport chamber of commerce. There is no way that this little red fisheman’s shack is really the most painted building in America. But alas, no one can PROVE it isn’t true… so therefore it must be! Every place needs a “most famous” icon. Well the origi...
Sep 26, 2008 · Paul Newman signs a first day cover honoring the 100th Anniversary of the Arrival in Oklahoma of the Five Civilized Indian Tribes. First Day Cover signed: " Paul Newman ", 6½x3¾. Price: $220.00
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Here, Newman’s signature motif – the vertical 'zip' – emerged and with a celebratory burst of energy, the next two years were the most productive of his career. In 1949, he painted eighteen canvases, the largest number he would ever produce in one year and a clear indication of the momentous creative epiphany experienced by Newman at this ...
