The Contemporaries at the Portland Museum of Art

THERE + THEN- September 2009
Photographs by Bryan Bruchman

An empty bottle hung from a tree in the Portland Museum of Arts’s garden on Spring Street as fiddler Pam Weeks and flutist Laura Block played live music. Food purveyors offered a taste of the Maine coast—all paired with a summer painting show, Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England.

Above: Partygoers enjoy Cellardoor Vineyard wines