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[2000] Since last summer...
You wouldn't expect that my work would receive wide attention in Kansas City, would you, unless of course it was in a show there. Not so. The Opinion Editor of the Kansas City Star, Rhonda Chriss Lokeman, paid a visit to the island last September and she wrote in her weekly column of the glorious show of colors of the island sunsets, which, she explained, "is repeated indoors in paintings at the studio of Maine artist Lawrence Goldsmith. It seems that Goldsmith, besides being an amiable fellow, has been handed his palette by God."
Less spectacular but more up to the minute have been the responses to my website. These have come from Europe as well as the United States, resulting in a few sales. This enterprise has been handled for me by Mira Dessy in Houston, with a link from the Monhegan website, Monhegan Commons. The Internet certainly expedites long-distance communication.
Other connections between the outer world and my studio have come from people seeking copies of Watercolor Bold and Free. The book went out of print in the spring of 1998. A year later I had a call from the publishers, Watson-Guptill in New York, asking what I thought of having a paperback edition. I said I would be delighted. I did not tell them I had been hoping all along that they would make that decision. The new edition, exactly like the original except for the cover, arrived this April; it sells for $19.95. Thus the title enters its third decade.
Still another connection with the outside world: This was from a woman who had bought a framed "watercolor painting" of mine at a garage sale in Tallahassee for $90. She wanted to know the history of my work. Did she get a bargain? When I told her my paintings now sell for at least $1,000, she was thrilled, I was crushed. Had my reputation slipped so badly instead of rising? The mystery was eventually solved. She had bought a poster, valued at $35, instead of an original painting. With the frame, perhaps she had done well financially. And I still had my pride.
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