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   Raising the Bar – November 23-December 30, 2001

553 STATE ROAD IN WEST TISBURY, MARTHA’S VINEYARD   www.CobaltFineArt.com 

 

 

top: bottles behind bar bottom: bored barmaid at the Ritz, Oak Bluffs candle in glass   empty bar sketch

 

Winter on Martha’s Vineyard can be cold and isolated.  But nightlife, when it exists, can be a warm meeting of friends over spirits and music.  In homage to Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, et al, Cobalt Gallery presented a mini-show of sketches on cocktail napkins done in the local watering holes and skanky dives.  Artists were encouraged to keep those doodles on napkins instead of trading them for a drink, or blowing their noses.  After all, that’s what sleeves were made for. 

 

Members of Artists Anonymous included: Marston Clough, Mitch Gordon, Nina Gomez Gordon, Bob Kimberly, Will Savage, John Wiener, and Barney Zeitz.

 

Johnny Seaview  John Wiener sitting at our table   Mitch sketching at Ritz

 

band with tuba player portrait of Omar Rayyan at Lola's, ink on napkin fiddlers at Offshore Ale Co., ink on napkin

 

 

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