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Renaissance Masterworks by Albrecht Dürer Take Center Stage at Lyman Allyn through November

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Included in the exhibit is Dürer’s “Joachim and the Angel,” ink on paper.

NEW LONDON–The Lyman Allyn Art Museum has announced the opening of “Albrecht Dürer: Master Prints,” featuring over 40 woodblock prints and engravings from  the German Renaissance master printmaker. 

The exhibit will run through Nov. 30. 

The museum in a press release described Dürer (1471-1528) as an extraordinary innovator who revolutionized printmaking.

The exhibition features a selection of Dürer’s prints, including two woodcuts from his celebrated Apocalypse (1498), his engraved Adam and Eve (1504) and his Meisterstiche (master engraving) of Saint Jerome in His Study (1514). All sixteen prints from Dürer’s Engraved Passion (1507-12) will be on view, along with examples of his Small Woodcut Passion cycle (1508-10), and his Life of the Virgin (1503-10). Several compositions by some of the artist’s most influential contemporaries and predecessors are included, with examples by Albrecht Altdorfer and Martin Schongauer, among others.  

Born in Nuremberg, Dürer apprenticed under his goldsmith father and under the Nuremberg painter and printmaker Michael Wolgemut. He soon rose to prominence, utilizing his skill and ambition to produce increasingly accomplished drawings, paintings, and prints. After several years of travel and work in the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy, Dürer returned to Nuremberg to focus on printmaking. Dürer’s woodblock prints and engravings brought printmaking to a new level of sophistication, establishing an international reputation for the artist.  

Lyman Allan Curator Tanya Pohrt said Dürer redefined printmaking in the early 1500s. 

“Visitors will have the unique opportunity to explore the artist’s exceptional mastery of a remarkably complex medium,” she said. 

The exhibit is organized by the Reading Public Museum of Pennsylvania. Additional works from Connecticut College’s Wetmore Print Collection will be featured in the exhibition. Funding comes from an anonymous foundation as well as the state Department of Economic and Community Development.

The museum at 625 Williams Street, New London, is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays 1 to 5 p.m. For more information call 860-443-2545, ext. 2129 or visit www.lymanallyn.org.

SECWAC Hosts Author Talk in Old Lyme, Book Recounts Mother’s Real Life Escape, Survival on WWII Eastern Front

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Charov will talk about the book she wrote based on her mother’s diaries.

OLD LYME–The Southeast Connecticut World Affairs Council (SECWAC) this month hosts author Helen Charov in a presentation on her book “Tatyana’s War: Escape and Survival on the Eastern Front in World War II.”

The Thursday, Sept. 25 event will be held at 6 p.m. in the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme. It will be preceded by a reception at 5:30 p.m.

SECWAC in an event description said Charon was born Brooklyn, New York, to émigré parents, who came to the U.S. as displaced persons after World War II. Charov grew up in Sea Cliff, a village on Long Island’s north shore. After graduating from New York University, she traveled extensively throughout the USSR with a U.S. government exhibit. She lives in Connecticut.

Charov’s book has its origin in diaries belonging to her mother that were found in a Connecticut attic. There, Charov discovered an account of her mother’s life as a teacher in the Stalinist Soviet Union, the 1941 Nazi invasion of Donetsk, her survival under Nazi occupation, and her harrowing escape to the West. 

“Tatyana’s War” tells the story of Tatyana Artemyeff, a 25-year-old teacher, as Nazi troops invaded her home of Donetsk, Ukraine, in 1941. The 25-year-old teacher was left on her own to save her two children and mother when her conscripted husband’s unit retreated from the city. Tatyana, who spoke German, was determined to find a way to survive the brutal occupation and keep her family from dying of starvation or execution.

SECWAC members are free. Non-Member in-person attendance is $20. Non-Member Visit this link to register.

For more information on SECWAC, visit their website.

Lyme Library Hosts Used Book Sale, Tomorrow & Saturday

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LYME–The offerings at the Lyme Public Library this month include a wide array of readings, classes, clubs and unique explorations of the arts with some big names.

These are just a few of the events on the September schedule: 

Friends of the Lyme Library Used Book Sale

LymeLine file photo.

Friday, Sept. 12  and Saturday, Sept. 13 

The Friends of the Lyme Library will kick off their annual used book sale on Friday from 3 to 7 p.m.

On Saturday, books will be sold at half price from 10 a.m to noon for the first half of the sale. From 12:30 to 4 p.m., shoppers will able to fill a bag for $10.

Organizers describe the books as near-new at very discounted prices. 

“Twice Told Tales” with Janet Roach

6 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 23

An evening of entertainment and community connection returns with local Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, Janet Roach, as she guides the audience through some of her favorite films. 

Twice Told Tales, held in two installments, will feature two movies with similar plots from different directors. It kicks off with “Philadelphia Story,” directed by George Cukor, starring Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart. The romantic comedy follows a rich divorcee, her ex-husband and a tabloid reporter through all the emotional fireworks on the eve of her remarriage. 

The second installment on Oct. 7 will feature the musical comedy “High Society,” followed by a potluck dinner. 

To register, send an email to programreg@lymepl.org. 

Check out these events, and many more, on the library’s website. 

Lyme Art Association Hosts Opening Reception for Two New Shows, Sept. 21

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Thomas Adkins’ oil painting, titled ‘Barnyard, Litchfield Hills,’ is part of the Lyme Art Association’s ‘New England Landscape’ exhibition starting Sept. 19.

‘New England Landscapes’ and ‘Timeless’ on View Sept. 19 Through Nov. 6

OLD LYME—On Friday, Sept. 19, the Lyme Art Association (LAA) unveils separate exhibitions on New England landscapes and the timelessness of art.

A free opening reception for New England Landscape and Timeless exhibitions will be held Sunday, Sept. 21, from 2 to 4 p.m.

The Association in a press release said New England Landscape is an annual member exhibition honoring the “many moods, colors, and textures that define New England’s natural splendor.”

Jim Laurino, ‘House in Cornwall’

The exhibit is supported by Ascend Bank in partnership with the Community Foundation of Middlesex County.

Timeless, the American Artists Professional League’s juried national member exhibition, will be on view simultaneously in LAA’s Goodman Gallery.

The LAA describes Timeless as a contemporary approach to realism, with artists rendering moments of life through the interplay of light, shadow, and form.

Both exhibitions will run through Nov. 6.

Hours at the 90 Lyme St. gallery are Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by appointment. Admission is free; contributions are appreciated.

For more information, visit www.lymeartassociation.org or call (860) 434-7802.

Federation of Old Lyme Beaches to Host ‘Meet the Candidates’ Forum, Saturday

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OLD LYME — The Federation of Old Lyme Beaches Inc. (FOLB) will hear from Old Lyme candidates up for election this November at its Meet the Candidates event on Saturday, Sept. 13.

The forum will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Shoreline Community Center, 39 Hartford Ave. 

FOLB in a press release said candidates for the office of selectman and other municipal elected offices will be in attendance. All Old Lyme residents are invited to attend. The four selectman candidates will each present brief remarks regarding their vision for Old Lyme as well as challenges the town faces. Audience members will be able to ask questions of the candidates.

FOLB represents the beach or shore communities of Old Lyme. The purpose of the Federation is to benefit and promote, by united action, the common interests of the beach and shore communities of Old Lyme in their relations with the local government and people of Old Lyme.

For more information, contact FOLB President Scott Boulanger at scottjboulanger@gmail.com.