Nell Blaine would often set up to paint the waterfront in the late afternoon and work past sunset, into the blue hour (l’heure bleue). Blaine shares that the moment of dying light is a time of great flaring up of life and revelation. Provoked by Blaine’s thinking and inspired by an array of work by her contemporaries Yolanda Fusco, Hayley Lever, Frederick Mulhaupt, Morris Hall Pancoast, William Lester Stevens, and Harry Vincent. CAPE ANN COLLECTORS explores this fragile and steely space of L’Heure Bleue.
