The Dublin Community Center will feature a retrospective art show in June showing works by the late Ruth Adams McCahon. The opening reception will be Friday, June 3, from 5 to 7 p.m.
McCahon was an artist known in the New England region for her still-life oil paintings, drawings and woodcut prints. She found inspiration in common growing things, creatures of the field and wood and the hope of the human spirit.
She was a 1945 graduate of Brookline High School in Massachusetts and studied art at New England School of Art and the Boston University School of Fine Art. She was a juried member of the Copley Society in Boston, the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, and the New Hampshire Art Association.
Raised in the Boston area, McCahon lived for many years in Hanover, Mass., before moving with her family to Peterborough in the early 1970s. Her art included transforming each of her homes and furnishings into early American historical homesteads.
McCahon and her husband Bill spent their final years in Washington State to be near family. This retrospective exhibit, spanning the 1970s through early 2000s, features works from the private collection of daughter Sandi McCahon, wife of DubHub Program Coordinator Volkert Volkersz. Additional pieces come from the homes of McCahon’s grandchildren, Rico McCahon of Manchester and Martha Duffy of Peterborough.
The community center is at 1123 Main St. in Dublin. For information, send email to info@dublincommunitycenter.org.