Port bookshop to host exhibition

The Island Now

The Dolphin Bookshop & Café in Port Washington is hosting Artistic Salvation: A Retrospective of the Life of BeA Haverbusch, on display from Jan. 3 to 30. 

An opening reception is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 9 from 1 to 3 p.m.

Born in 1919, like many women of her era, Haverbusch was encouraged to devote herself entirely to husband and family.  Uneducated, but filled with a love of art, she willingly took up the mantle of housewife, though she remained childless.  

A self taught, naif artist, she painted throughout her life, but after her husband’s death, while she was still a young woman, she channeled her frustrations into her art. For more than 40 years she produced works of exceptional impact and quality.

In the last seven or eight years of her life, while she fought breast cancer, painting became both physical and mental therapy for her.  When she finally succumbed to the disease in 1944, her artistic legacy included more than 200 oil paintings, 100 watercolors and numerous pieces of hand decorated furniture.

Her brother Ed Rubin, presents Artistic Salvation: A Retrospective of the Life of BeA Haverbusch.

Additional works on display at Town Court Gallery, 188 Tarrytown Road.

The Dolphin Bookshop & Café is located at 299 Main St., Port Washington. Call (516) 767-2650 or visit www.thedolphinbookshop.com for further information.

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