Emily Nelligan
Dark Pool, c. 1958, charcoal on paper, 10 1/8 x 13 inches
Emily Nelligan: Cranberry Island
ALEXANDRE Maine Pop-Up
Preview Days July 2 and 3 - July 3 until 3 pm
July 9–August 16, 2026
162 Russell Avenue, Rockport, Maine
Thursdays through Sundays, 11 am to 5:30 pm
203-219-6615
Alexandre returns to Rockport, Maine this summer, opening its second pop-up exhibition in the former Maine Coast Artists (CMCA) building.
The 2026 season centers on Emily Nelligan (1924-2018), who spent decades drawing a single subject: Cranberry Island, Maine. Trained at Cooper Union in the 1940s, Nelligan adopted charcoal over paint for its economy, and came to master the medium for its capacity to convey depth, atmospheric contrast and deep emotion. Long admired by other artists in Maine, where she and her husband, the artist Marvin Bileck, lived part of each year, she did not receive her first full-scale exhibition until 2000, at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Included will be a selection of early drawings, never previously exhibited, and a new text by Isabelle Dervaux, former curator at The Morgan Library. In the fall the gallery will publish a catalogue to accompany its showing in New York.
Also on view will be a selection of works by artists including Will Barnet, Stuart Davis, Lois Dodd, Marsden Hartley, Susan Hartnett, Lisa Sanditz, John Walker and Neil Welliver, among others.
A rolling screening of Gerrit Schreurs’s documentary Lois Dodd: Framing the Ephemeral, produced for Dodd’s first European retrospective at Kunstmuseum Den Haag, which closed in April 2026, will run throughout the exhibition. The film features contributions from David Breslin, Roberta Smith, Ann Temkin, Adam Weinberg, and others.
19 OCT 95 (1), 1995 charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches
Untitled, 1984, charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches
9 AUG 07, 2007 charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches
Nearing Thrumcap, 1982, charcoal on paper, 7 x 10 1/2 inches
31 July 04 (1), 2004, charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches
1 OCT 08, 2008, charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches
15 JULY 10, 2010 charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches
14 OCT 01 (1), 2001, charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches
Fog, 1981, charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches
Moon, Rocks and Sea II, 1979, charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches
7 Oct 99 (2), 1999 charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches
24 AUG 91 (2), 1991, charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches
20 July 97 (2), 1997, charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches
Meadow: Spurling Point, 1979, charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches
8 OCT 08, 2008, charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches
10 Oct '00, 2000, charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches
Untitled, 1970s, charcoal on paper, 8 1/2 x 11 inches
Untitled, 1970s, charcoal on paper, 8 3/8 x 11 inches,
Untitled, 1970s, charcoal on paper, 8 3/8 x 11 inches
Untitled, 1970s, charcoal on paper, 8 1/2 x 11 inches
Untitled, 1970s, charcoal on paper, 10 x 13 inches
Landscape #4, 1970s, charcoal on paper, 9 x 11 5/8 inches
Untitled, 1970s, charcoal on paper, 10 x 12 inches
Untitled, 1970s, charcoal on paper, 9 7/8 x 12 7/8 inches
Dark Pool, 1958, charcoal on paper, 10 1/8 x 13 inches
Untitled, 1960s, charcoal on paper, 9 1/2 x 12 inches
7-13-64, 1964, charcoal on paper, 10 x 13 1/4 inches
Untitled, 1965, charcoal on paper, 10 x 13 inches
Geraniums, ink on paper, 10 x 13 inches
Geraniums, ink on paper, 10 1/8 x 13 1/8 inches
Geraniums, ink on paper, 10 x 13 1/8 inches
Geraniums, ink on paper, 10 x 13 1/8 inches
New Hampshire Landscape, 1960s, charcoal on paper, 13 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches
1 September 62, 1962, charcoal on paper, 13 x 10 inches
Maine Woods, 1960s, charcoal on paper, 12 7/8 x 10 inches
Maine Woods, 1960s, charcoal on paper, 13 x 10 inches
Maine Woods, 1960s, charcoal on paper, 11 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches
Maine Woods, 1960s, charcoal on paper, 11 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches
Untitled Maine, 1960s, charcoal on paper, 10 x 13 1/4 inches
Untitled Maine, 1966, charcoal on paper, 10 x 13 1/4 inches
Untitled Maine, 1960s, charcoal on paper, 10 x 13 1/4 inches
Untitled Maine, 1960, charcoal on paper, 10 x 13 inches
Untitled Cranberry Island, 1960s, charcoal on paper, 10 x 13 1/8 inches
Untitled Cranberry Island, 1960s, charcoal on paper, 10 x 13 inches
Untitled Cranberry Island, 1967, charcoal on paper, 10 x 13 1/4 inches
Untitled Cranberry Island, 1960s, charcoal on paper, 10 x 13 inches
Portrait of Buddy, charcoal on paper, 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches
Portrait of Buddy, charcoal on paper, 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches