BEVERLY, MA.- Montserrat College of Art celebrates its 35th Anniversary of teaching art on the North Shore with a summer exhibit entitled "Enlightened View: Artists Teaching on Cape Ann." In conjunction with the North of Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau program entitled Art Escapes: Celebrate the Place that Inspired the Art, this exhibit will feature more than 50 works of art that highlight teaching relationships on the North Shore over a period of 100 years, beginning in the second quarter of the 19th Century, much of which has never before been seen by the public.

"Enlightened View" will include master works by significant artists who either taught or took art lessons on Cape Ann. Among them are Fitz Henry Lane, Mark Rothko, Cecelia Beaux, Aaron Siskind and Stuart Davis. This exhibit provides a unique opportunity for Montserrat students and the larger community to view major works of art that were inspired by and created on Boston's North Shore.

"There is no better way to celebrate 35 years of teaching art on the North Shore than to celebrate the artists who began this tradition in the 1800's," says Stan Trecker, President of Montserrat College of Art. "We hope that 'Enlightened View' will call attention to just some of the important works of art created by significant artists right here in our own backyard."

Paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints that represent the changing modes of art training are the focus of "Enlightened View." Early-19th Century apprenticeships, outdoor landscape classes, and groups of artists with similar visions, such as The Ashcan School and early Abstract Expressionists, are examples of how art training changed in the century before World War II. The exhibit references art movements including Luminism, the Barbizon School, Impressionism, Pastelism, Fauvism, and Tonalism.

An 18-page color catalog will compliment the exhibit and will feature an essay, co-written by Shana Dumont, Assistant Curator at Montserrat and William Trayes, Guest Curator, that describes the changing modes of art training.