Charlie Hewitt Prints

Right: Copper Dome; Left: Hard Candy — Right: *Copper Dome*; Left: *Hard Candy*

About The Show

“Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.” - Herman Melville, Moby Dick; or, The Whale.

In this year of Maine’s bicentennial, artist Charlie Hewitt has created a new series of woodcut prints focused on New England’s strong bond with the sea. In his dynamic, imaginative, and unmistakable style, Hewitt re-imagines iconic regional sights - shining lighthouses; brightly colored, numbered buoys - grounding the series in human industry while reminding us of the ineffable power, beauty, and peril of the sea.

The series consists of 21 separate prints, each limited to an edition of 20. Each was printed by master printer David Wolfe at Wolfe Editions.

Featured Artists

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Charlie Hewitt

Charlie Hewitt is nationally known for his dynamic, imaginative paintings, sculpture, prints, and neon constructions. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, Portland Museum of Art, and Bates College Museum of Art.