BEVERLY ART WALK today at the Ridge Historical Society
10621 S. Seeley Avenue, 12 noon to 5:00 p.m.
Louise Barwick’s name should be on the list of Beverly artists participating in today’s Art Walk. Her works will be shown at RHS.
Miss Barwick lived from 1871 to 1957. She was an artist and an educator. Her watercolor paintings of local scenes from the late 1800s – early 1900s give the community an amazing insight into what life was like here in the past. RHS has over a dozen of her paintings in the collection.
Fields of daisies. Horse-drawn coaches delivering young ladies to dances. Bridges over long-gone streams. Lamp lighters lighting gas streetlamps. All of these scenes are part of “Louise Barwick’s Lost Ridge.”
The watercolors are just part of Miss Barwick’s story. She has an amazing history – she was a woman ahead of her time. She was famous for her three-dimensional map-modeling skills and was featured for that at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago.
Visit RHS today to see this new exhibit, and to observe artist Robin Power’s demonstrations of pottery-making and the dancers from Weber Irish Dance.