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MAY 6 – JUNE 28
Coming Soon: Raymond Welch, Maine Folk Artist
Born in Ohio, Welch moved with his family to Sanford and worked as a loom fixer and designer of carpet fabrics in the Goodall-Sanford Textile Mills. He loved music and played bass in a band performing throughout Northern New England. At age 43 he started experimenting in watercolor painting. In 1958, inspired by the primitive art of Anna Mary Roberson, better-known as Grandma Moses, Welch started to paint in oils. He said, “I never copied anything. I just painted what’s in my head or in my memory.” He had exhibits of his self-proclaimed “Primitive Art” in New York and Boston. He died in 1996 at age 81.
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