Needham —
The walls of the Needham Historical Society headquarters are a paean this month to some of the town’s diverse talent.
In the old schoolhouse adjacent to the headquarters, there is a painting of Town Hall with the Circle of Peace sculpture of children holding hands and running in a circle in the foreground.
“I always admired the sculpture,” said Dottie Laughlin, who painted the piece. “I tried to capture motion, the whipping feeling of the kids running and playing.”
A pencil sketch of a bare tree is also on display.
“This is a tree in my backyard in winter,” said Barbara Cusack, who does watercolors as well.
“I didn’t have anything else to do that afternoon,” Cusack joked, when asked why she drew the tree. “I just liked the way it looked. I liked the lines, the way it’s going, the flow of the limbs.”
For the entire month of September, the Needham Art Association is displaying its members’ works at the Needham Historical Society’s Central Avenue headquarters as part of its 60th anniversary. The exhibit opened on Sept. 1.
“The appeal of the art is broad,” said Kathleen Keating, co-president of the Needham Art Association. “There are no restrictions. It’s whatever creative impulse in the person who comes to us.”read more