The following is from the artist, who is a resident of York County, Maine. He has become known in New England for his watercolors of small Maine and New Hampshire towns.

Often they show deterioration and abandoned buildings. He also specializes in male and female nudes and floral nature studies and occasionally does a self portrait.

DEWITT HARDY
South Berwick, Maine

BORN:
St. Louis, Missouri, June 1940

EDUCATION:
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

RESIDENCE:
South Berwick, Maine

POSITIONS HELD
Curator and Associate Director of Museum of Art of Ogunquit, Maine
Instructor, University of Maine at Augusta
Instructor, Heartwood College of Art, Arundel, Maine

GROUP SHOWS
1998 "Portland Museum Biennial", Portland, Maine
1997 "A Brush With Greatness" Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, Maine
1995 "The Ogunquit Tradition: Ogunquit Painting Today",
Van Ward Gallery, Boston, MA
1995 "The Figure", Point Gallery, York, ME
1995 "The Face Of America", Old Forge Museum, Old Forge, NY
1994 "Maines Heritage and Tradition", Frost Gully Gallery, Portland, Maine
1994 "Self-Portraits", James Goode Collection,
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1994 "Miniatures", Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Nudes", Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 "On the Edge, Maine Painting, 1950-1990",
Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
1993 "Miniatures", Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 "Perspectives on Realism", Louis Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 "Two Views of the Nude", Blackthorne
1990 "Gallery Group", Gallery Henoch, NY
1988 "Contemporary Figure Drawings", Robert Schoelkopf, NY
1998 "All Maine Biennial" University of Southern Maine
1986-7 "American Realism", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1984 "Portland Museum Drawing Biennial", Portland, ME
1983 "Monserrat Drawing Invitational", Monserrat MA
"American Realists Works on Paper", Robert Schoelkopf, New York, NY
1978 "All Maine Biennial", Brunswick, ME

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Achenbach Foundation, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, CA
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Museum, British Columbia
Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
Beloit College, Beloit, WI
Bowdoin College Museum, ME
British Museum, London, England
Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, OH
Casco Northern Bank
Chemical Bank, NYC
Cleveland Museum, OH
Collection de la Tortue, Paris, France
Davidson College
Dayton Art Institute, OH
Drury, College
Dublin Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Hirshhorn Collection, Washington D.C.
Indiana State University, Evansville, IN
Janss Collection
Kalamazoo Institute of Art
Kohler Art Center, Sheboygen, WI
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ
Michigan State University
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Museum of Art, Ogunquit, ME
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
Portland Museum, Portland, ME
Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL
Rockford College
Sheldon Swope Museum, Terre Haute, IA
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Southern Illinois University
St. Lawrence University, NY
University of Georgia
University of Maine, Orono
University of Nebraska
University of North Carolina
University of Utah
Whittenberg University, Springfield, OH

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
American Artist, June 1976, "DeWitt Hardys Line Language" by Ellye Bloom
The Maine Times, May 5, 1989, "Hardy Country"
American Artist, November 1981, "The Watercolor Page: DeWitt Hardy"
The New York Times, February 20, 1981, "Watercolors by DeWitt Hardy"
The Café Review, Summer 1998, accompanying poems by Donald Hall

Also listed in Who's Who in American Art