Rye is a many-splendored town, but when artists get out their brushes and canvases, it’s most often to capture the shifting light over Long Island Sound, the Tide Mill, or Blind Brook. While waterfront scenes were the glittering attractions at The Rye Arts Center’s 14th Painters on Location: Plein-Air Paint-Out & Auction, downtown landscapes merited plenty of attention and high bids at the live auction September 16.
The Gallery filled up early with art lovers interested in getting a close look at the works in the silent auction. One by one they moved on to the freshly painted ones in the Performing Arts Room that were later sold in the live auction.
The occasion gives the community the chance to meet artists from Maine to Rhode Island to Pennsylvania to upstate New York and right around the corner.
