Tom Curry
Bio
Tom Curry is a landscape painter who paints the seas and small villages and harbors near his studio in Brooklin, Maine. Curry studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, Yale School of Fine Art and University of Massachusetts.
His work has been featured in publications such as the Island Journal, The Boston Globe, The New Yorker, Art New England, Down East, Ellsworth American and on the cover of the book East Hope (Penguin Books, 2009). Curry's works are held in the collections of the Delaware Art Museum, Wheaton College Art Museum, U.S. State Department, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston Red Sox, Putnam Investments, Fidelity Investments and General Electric.
Curry is best known for his long-term visual exploration of the small island of Chatto, which has become the subject of more than 60 paintings. These repeated views are about seeing the same place through the ever-changing lens of light, weather, season, and mood. He has turned this tiny island into something monumental, like a visual mantra. The series is captured in his first monograph, Island: Paintings by Tom Curry, published by Down East Books in 2012 and 2019.