Page C4 The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, August 18, 1988 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Cranberry Isles lose painter Carl G. Nelson City, Iowa; The American Peoples School in New York City; The Cambridge School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston, Mass.; The Cummington School of the Arts in Cummington, Mass.; and the YWCA Workshops in Boston, Mass., were legion. In spite of a very heavy teaching schedule, he was also a prolific artist who worked in a variety of mediums which included oils, caseins, pen and ink and linoleum cuts. A collection of his linoleum cuts called The Prince of Peach, was published by The Tidal Press of Cranberry Island in 1979. In the course of his career he was invited to appear in a number of distinguished group shows such as The Carnegie International; The Pennsylvania The Times would like to thank Academy of Fine Arts; The Whitney Charles Wadsworth, a Cranberry Island Museum Biennial; The Boston Arts resident and publisher of the Tidal Press Festival and the Worcester Museum who has known Carl Nelson for 50 among others. A partial listing of his work years, for writing this article. in the collections of a variety of museums Carl G. Nelson, born in Sweden in includes The Worcester Museum, The 1898, came to the United States when he Addison Gallery of American Art; The was five-years-old. A part-time resident University of Maine and The Portland of Cranberry Isles for 21-years and a full- Museum of Art. His work is in many time resident for 19-years following his private collections. In his latter years he retirement from teaching in Boston, he had a long and fruitful association with died Aug. 6, 1988 at the age of 91. Death Fred and Clarice Fox who ran The COURTESY OF SOUTHWEST HARBOR ANTIC followed a brief illness at a hospital near Schoolhouse Gallery in Sanibel, Florida. Abstract oil by Carl Nelson painted in the early 1950's. the residence of his niece Elaine Madsen He was productive to the end, producing of Oakland Grove, Illinois, who had work into his 80s. could be induced to bloom on Cranberry Although he has gone, the provided him with loving care during his But a listing of official honors does not Island and provide constant subject matter his life is certain to be a perm last years when he had become both blind include Mr. Nelson's prowess as a host for his paintings. And mention should be the lore and legend of Cranber and deaf. and chef. The many whom he invited to made of the discreet flamboyance of his memorial service will be Nelson, during his long professional sumptuous dinners can testify to that wardrobe which was often as colorful as church on Cranberry Island life, was both a well-known painter and a prowess. Nor does it include his passion his garden flowers and of his generosity in Sunday, Aug. 28. respected teacher. His students at The for gardening, in particular for the care distributing the largesse from his Sioux City Society of Fine Arts in Sioux and nurture of every sort of flower which vegetable patch.