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Sarah Brokke
“It is definitely all about the lake and dreaming about the lake. It expounds upon how, when I’m away from the lake, when I’m away from Duluth, it seems to be this thread that runs through my life. When you come over that hill and see the lake again, it’s so much coming home.
“It’s why it became such an interpretation of what Artistic Duluth means: Connection with water and this larger space.”
Sarah Brokke, an adjunct instructor at St. Scholastica, has a large-scale abstract oil painting called “Reverie” in the auction. Look familiar? It was hanging in the atrium at the Zeitgeist Arts building.
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Martin Dewitt
“When I first got to Duluth in 1986 I was overwhelmed and taken by Duluth and its grandeur coming down Thompson Hill into the city and seeing the big lake, Lake Superior. It was quite an amazing experience for me, coming from Chicago area, flatland, it was quite awesome. … It really inspired me to do more about Duluth, Superior, the environment and the area.”
Martin Dewitt, former curator at the Tweed Museum of Art, has a screen print of the painting “My Duluth” in the auction. The original painting was made in the mid-1980s. He said he wanted to maintain the panoramic character that Duluth-Superior has.
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Rosemary Guttormson
“It was late last spring, March. There wasn’t anything pretty to take a picture of. I thought a street scene would work just fine. Everyone knows where that corner is. It says Duluth to me as much as the lake or the bridge.
“I paint a lot of bears, but I do landscapes, flowers, moose.”
Rosemary Guttormson originally painted “Corner of Lake & Superior” for a watercolor show. She wanted to incorporate people into a painting, so she set this cast on a familiar downtown corner. Guttormson is an associate at Just for the Season gallery in the Holiday Center.
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Terry Hallbeck
“We camp on the North Shore a lot. I love Lake Superior. I just love the lake shore. I airbrushed the (Aerial) Lift Bridge into the top of it and the blue is Lake Superior with the waves.”
Terry Hallbeck of Cloquet used a wood lathe to make “Spaceship Duluth,” a piece made from Minneapolis quilted maple that includes Duluth vistas on the surface.
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Robert Pokorney
“I think what I like most about working in Duluth is there are all of these places and views and things that sort of sneak up on you. They’re not breathtakingly beautiful right when you look at them. They aren’t a street scene in Venice that are outwardly beautiful. You spend time with them and go back day after day. That corner represents that for me. I spent a lot of mornings waiting for the bus there. You start to notice the seasons change, you think: ‘This is a beautiful place.’”
Robert Pokorney’s “4th St. and 1st Ave. East, Morning,” is an oil-on-wood painting of a familiar place. Pokorney’s painting of a distant view of Park Point is also part of the auction, but only as the cover of the program guide. He couldn’t include it in the auction, he said. It belongs to his mom.
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