Arline Thomson Art Sale Set for Homecoming Weekend
ORONO, Maine – The estate of the late artist and former University of Maine designer and illustrator Arline Thomson is holding an art sale Friday and Saturday to benefit the UMaine Honors College.
The sale will be held 4 p.m.-7 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday in Colvin Hall. More than 300 original pieces of art will be available for purchase. The subject matter includes images of UMaine; the Maine coast; scenes from England; flowers; and the artist’s note and holiday card collection.
Thomson, the recipient of the 2007 Vincent A. Hartgen Award, which is bestowed by the UMaine’s Patrons of the Arts for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the arts at UMaine, died last fall, two days short of her 98th birthday.
Beginning in the early 1960s, Thomson worked as an artist, graphic designer and illustrator for the UMaine Department of Public Affairs, Central Services and University Press, retiring in 1985, but continuing on an as-needed basis until 1994. Thomson was predeceased by her husband, long-time UMaine Honors Director Robert Thomson, for whom the Honors Center in Colvin Hall is named. Even after his passing, Arline continued her close relationship with the Honors College.
Thomson’s journal entries and hundreds of pen and ink drawings she made in London were exhibited at UMaine, and were included in her book, “Discovering Elizabethan London.”
For more information, contact Emily Cain, Honors College coordinator of advancement, at 207-581-3308 or emily.cain@umit.maine.edu.