Over East An Artist's Journal: The Contemporary Maritime Community- Artist Robert Beck returns to Maine each year to paint from life in the fishing and boatbuilding communities of the coast. Drawn by the aroma of wood in a boatbuilder’s shop, the activity on a lobster wharf, the ghosts in a spar shed, or the easy conversation of a group of women picking crab, Beck has produced a large body of work he considers his best, and closest to his heart.
