Discipline: Visual Art

Mark Wethli

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Brunswick, ME
MacDowell Fellowships: 1983, 1996

Mark Wethli is a painter and public artist living and working in Brunswick, Maine, where he is also the A. LeRoy Greason Professor of Art at Bowdoin College. He received his B.F.A. and M.F.A from the University of Miami. Starting out with painting realist interiors, Wethli moved to geometric abstraction around 1999 but balance, shape, and harmony are essential elements that run throughout his work. Wethli's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including solo museum exhibitions at the Portland Museum of Art and the DeCordova Museum of Art.

Studios

New Hampshire

Mark Wethli worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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