{"id":3432,"date":"2016-07-21T22:57:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T03:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2016-07-21T23:05:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T04:05:28","slug":"celebrating-the-life-of-a-portrait-artist-who-once-painted-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/07\/21\/celebrating-the-life-of-a-portrait-artist-who-once-painted-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the life of a portrait artist who once painted Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screen<\/a>Gail McCarthy of the Gloucester Times<\/em> posted an article earlier today on “Remembering a portrait artist; Celebration to recall legacy of Aphia Carman.”\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

A celebration\u00a0slated for 2 p.m. Sunday, July 24, 2016, will be held at “the barn” on 43 Rocky Neck Ave. in Gloucester, Mass. Aphia Hayward Carman<\/strong> was a portrait artist who operated a\u00a0gallery and studio in Gloucester\u00a0for 40 years but “her talent was in high demand,” McCarthy writes, “even after she closed her Rocky Neck Art Colony business.<\/p>\n

The celebration of her life will be hosted by her children, Patty Carman Blonda and Tim Carman.<\/p>\n

“Carman was once known as the ‘Grand Dame’ of Rocky Neck. She painted portraits of locals as well as others throughout the North Shore, including Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike, who also sought her out for a portrait,” McCarthy writes.<\/p>\n

“John Nesta, a fellow Rocky Neck artist who lived a few doors down, said Carman (1921-2015) is remembered for her big personality and enormous talent.” According to Nesta, “her portraits were so delightful that even if you didn’t know the family they were still very desirable.”<\/p>\n

Carman died last December at the age of 94 in Montana, where she had been living for the past decade with one of her children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gail McCarthy of the Gloucester Times posted an article earlier today on “Remembering a portrait artist; Celebration to recall legacy of Aphia Carman.”\u00a0 A celebration\u00a0slated for 2 p.m. Sunday, July 24, 2016, will be held at “the barn” on 43 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-in-memoriam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3436,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions\/3436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}