Carl Little

Jeffery Becton, the Farthest House Carl Little

Jacket Description/Flap: Author Carl Little offers a compelling account of Becton's progress as an artist, from his studies in graphic design and photography at Yale in the 1970s to the creation of his signature digital montages over the past 25 years. He explores Becton's fascination with vintage New England houses and their furnishings, and how the artist draws upon his surroundings on the coast of Maine and elsewhere to create surreal scenarios than hark back to Ren Magritte as well as Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth. Appreciations by art writer and novelist Deborah Weisgall; Dan Mills, director of the Bates College Museum of Art; and art critic Peter Plagens help complete this portrait of a master of photo-based art.

Contributor Bio:  Little, Carl Carl Little is the author of more than a dozen art books, including The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper's New England, Paintings of Maine, and The Art of Dahlov Ipcar. His articles and reviews have appeared in Art in America, Art New England, Island Journal, and Ornament. And he has published poems in many different journals, including the Paris Review and Cafe Review. His Ocean Drinker: New & Selected Poems was published in 2006. He lives on Mount Desert Island.