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Robert Hauschild, Posters 1998-2002
Robert Hauschild Contributes Posters 1998 to 2002
Robert Hauschild's contribution to the New London Main Street poster program began in 1998 with A New Day Dawning, a beautiful view of State Street in a future downtown New London. His next poster, 2000's The New Century on the Parade, was an artist's view of the Plaza at the head of Bank Street where it joins State Street, featuring the Soldiers and Sailors Monument built in 1896.
Robert Hauschild has been honored by many of our area's art institutions. Hauschild's paintings have been selected by B.A.R.E., Pfizer's Bringing Art to the Research Environment exhibit. Hauschild's work hangs in the permanent collection of the Mystic Seaport Museum. He has had exhibits at the Mystic Art Association, the Slater Museum in Norwich, New Haven Paint & Clay Club, Connecticut Watercolor Society, and the West Hartford Art League.
Watercolor is Robert Hauschild's medium of choice. In his own words, Hauschild talks about what this choice means to him, "you can't dominate watercolor. It's that bouncy, transparent jump that you get—you have to work with it. It's almost what you don't put in that makes a painting." The era of the great steam engines is one of his favorite subjects, and he infuses those historical locomotives with vibrancy and vitality. "I try to paint scenes that existed but don't now … I want to show that, years ago, this was a whole different world," he has said about his watercolors from the age of steam. In his vision of State Street, we see a world of historical buildings alive and well today—looking toward the 21st century.
The poster for 2001 brought us Spring in downtown New London. The watercolor, entitled Springtime on the Waterfront, is Hauschild's romantic depiction of the new downtown Waterfront Park on a cool, rainy spring afternoon. We see a family group strolling the boardwalk and a solitary figure gazing down the Thames to the sea.
In 2002's Eugene O'Neill on the Waterfront, Hauschild again used the Waterfront Park as background for a watercolor. Focusing on the elegant sculpture of Eugene O'Neill as a boy, Hauschild gives us bright, sunny day at the City Pier in Waterfront Park. Although O'Neill was educated in boarding schools, his summers were spent at the family's only permanent home, Monte Cristo Cottage, located on Pequot Avenue overlooking the Thames River in New London. Hauschild's work captures the wistful quality of the sculpture. While O'Neill sits and gazes out over the Thames from his vantage point on a well-placed rock, the pier and park beyond are alive with all the usual activity that's present when a tall ship docks.
Interested in obtaining copies of our posters for your home or office? The 2003 poster is sold out, but our other posters are available for purchase by visiting the Main Street office or by phoning us at 860-444-CITY (2489).
Posters are $15 for members or $20 for non-members. Posters are also avilable signed by the artist for an additional $10 or framed for an additional $20. To have your unframed poster mailed, please send a check, including $3 for shipping and handling, to the Main Street office; framed posters must be picked up at the Main Street office.
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