Don Gorvett: Ogunquit in a Woodcut, is an exhibit of selected work done over five decades featuring Ogunquit, Maine. Mr. Gorvett is acclaimed for his hand-pulled color woodcuts recording maritime subjects from Boston, MA, to Portland, ME, with Ogunquit being an essential part of his development as a career artist. 

Mr. Gorvett arrived in Ogunquit in 1968, the summer preceding his studies at the School at the Museum Fine Arts, Boston. His purpose was to isolate himself and concentrate on painting. This was achieved through the encouragement of his high school teacher and private tutor Mrs. Elinor Marvin, and long-time Ogunquit summer resident Ms. Annabelle Lewis. Elinor drove the young artist to Ogunquit, and by chance, they met Annabelle, who offered her extra one-room cabin to the young artist, an arrangement that stood for 18 years. Don continued his many secluded summers in Ogunquit with winters spent in Gloucester, MA. Throughout the '70s and '80s, young Gorvett could be spotted painting on the Marginal Way, in the Ogunquit dunes and marshes, or traveling through town on his bike with a wet canvas. He also spent time developing his printmaking technique in his Berwick Road one-room cabin. In 1990 he moved year-round to Ogunquit and established his Ogunquit printmaking studio in a residential neighborhood off Berwick Road. At the end of 2019, Mr. Gorvett relocated his studio to Gloucester, MA, where he continues his work in the reduction woodcut medium. The new spacious studio and gallery at the historic Beacon Marine Basin are exhibiting his work and that of other regionally and nationally known artists.

Since 2006, the Don Gorvett Gallery in downtown Portsmouth is the primary source for his woodcuts and drawings. Don Gorvett woodcuts are in the permanent collections at public and private institutions, including the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Boston Athenaeum, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockport, ME, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, and Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA.