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Capital honor for a Down East hero
by Outspoken on Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:45 am
Capital honor for a Down East hero
By Jessica Bloch
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
BANGOR, Maine - Earlier this week, artist J. Normand Martin had a large portrait hanging on a wall in his dining room. On Thursday morning, the painting made its debut in an even larger venue.
The painting — or a version of it, anyway — eventually will hang in the home of the man who served as its inspiration.
Martin’s painting of Morrill Worcester about to lay a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery, a representation of the thousands of wreaths Worcester’s Harrington-based company has donated in the past 16 years to lay at soldiers’ headstones, was unveiled Thursday to a group including Worcester himself and Gov. John Baldacci at the State House in Augusta.
The unveiling took place before a medal ceremony for World War II veterans in the Hall of Flags. About 75 people attended both ceremonies.
The narrative painting depicts Worcester standing in the foreground of a scene in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., holding a wreath that he is presumably about to lay at the grave of a soldier, whose funeral procession is shown in the background. Each of the dozens of graves Martin painted into the work has a wreath leaning against it.
It’s a small fraction of the wreaths Worcester Wreath Co. has donated to Arlington National Cemetery over the years, including 10,000 in 2007 alone. That number was double the amount the company had donated every year since 1992, when Worcester started the program.
Martin, 82, is no stranger to large-scale projects. He was the man who, in 1958, designed the statue of Paul Bunyan that stands in Bass Park overlooking Main Street in Bangor.
The 4-foot-by-5-foot oil painting, however, is his largest two-dimensional work to date.
"Of course, I’m proud of this," Martin said. "I’ve done portraits before, but nothing like this."
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=166947&zoneid=500
(Bangor Daily News/ John Clarke Russ)
By Jessica Bloch
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
BANGOR, Maine - Earlier this week, artist J. Normand Martin had a large portrait hanging on a wall in his dining room. On Thursday morning, the painting made its debut in an even larger venue.
The painting — or a version of it, anyway — eventually will hang in the home of the man who served as its inspiration.
Martin’s painting of Morrill Worcester about to lay a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery, a representation of the thousands of wreaths Worcester’s Harrington-based company has donated in the past 16 years to lay at soldiers’ headstones, was unveiled Thursday to a group including Worcester himself and Gov. John Baldacci at the State House in Augusta.
The unveiling took place before a medal ceremony for World War II veterans in the Hall of Flags. About 75 people attended both ceremonies.
The narrative painting depicts Worcester standing in the foreground of a scene in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., holding a wreath that he is presumably about to lay at the grave of a soldier, whose funeral procession is shown in the background. Each of the dozens of graves Martin painted into the work has a wreath leaning against it.
It’s a small fraction of the wreaths Worcester Wreath Co. has donated to Arlington National Cemetery over the years, including 10,000 in 2007 alone. That number was double the amount the company had donated every year since 1992, when Worcester started the program.
Martin, 82, is no stranger to large-scale projects. He was the man who, in 1958, designed the statue of Paul Bunyan that stands in Bass Park overlooking Main Street in Bangor.
The 4-foot-by-5-foot oil painting, however, is his largest two-dimensional work to date.
"Of course, I’m proud of this," Martin said. "I’ve done portraits before, but nothing like this."
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=166947&zoneid=500
(Bangor Daily News/ John Clarke Russ)
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