Painting

Title:

Adams Point, Durham

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

2015.020.01

Creator:

Maynard, Max (1903-1982)

Date:

circa 1970

Description:

Landscape painting, Adams Point, Durham, by Max Maynard (1903-1982), c. 1970. Oil on artist board (Grumbacher canvas panel). Modernist style painting depicting a scene on Adams Point peninsula in Great Bay, Durham, NH. White (winter?) landscape with black hills and purple and red sky. Green and blue in foreground, and large blue-black shape curving into distance; in front of that is a slanted vertical black object in center, probably representing the granite Adams family obelisk. Pencil inscription on back of frame, "Adams Pt". Framed.

Material:

Oil on board

Dimensions:

H-21.9 W-32.6 inches

Provenance:

Maxwell Singleton Maynard was born in 1903 in India, to missionaries Thomas H. and Eliza A. (Teague) Maynard. Max Maynard moved with his parents to Victoria, British Columbia, in 1912 and later moved to Vancouver. While a student at the University of British Columbia he became a follower of the "Group of Seven" artists Emily Carr (1871-1945) and Jack Shadbolt (1909-1998). During the 1940s, he was briefly the interim director of the Vancouver Art Gallery and taught English at the University of Manitoba. He eventually came to Durham where he a hired as a professor (later Professor Emeritus) of English Literature at the University of New Hampshire. Maynard married his former student Fredelle Joy Bruser in 1948 and they divorced in 1972. They had two daughters, Rona and Joyce, both of whom have followed literary career paths. While working in New Hampshire, Maynard exhibited at the New Hampshire Art Association. He returned to Canada permanently in 1978, settling in British Columbia.

Credit Line:

Gift of David H. Watters

People:

Maynard, Max (1903-1982)

Subjects:

Obelisks