Bailey s Beach Club
The latest controversy over U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s association with the elite, WASPy Bailey’s Beach Club, in Newport, has gone viral after being launched by GoLocal. (I prefer the silly-sounding real name of the club – the Spouting Rock Beach Association.) His wife is a member.
I don’t care much about politicians’ associations in their private life; it’s their public-policy positions that primarily interest me. But I suppose that any story about Newport’s summer creatures, blue-blooded or otherwise, has its allure. Many folks consider Newport an exotic place.
Jack Nolan, Bailey Beach’s general manager, told The Boston Globe that the club’s members and their families have included people of “many racial, religious, and ethnic backgrounds from around the world who come to Newport every summer.” Remarkable, if true…. In any event, for decades the club had reputation of being all white as well as anti-Semitic. Since it’
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Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Edward Bannister s Palmer River sold for just over $277,000 at a Sotheby s Auction last week. Photo: Wiki/Public Domain
A painting by acclaimed Rhode Island Black artist Edward Bannister garnered just over $277,000 at a Sotheby’s auction last week.
The owner who sold it, Dan Mechnig, who had purchased “Palmer River” by Bannister in 1985, spoke with GoLocalProv about what it meant to own, and sell, the significant piece of American art.
“It’s an incredible national story you won’t find it anywhere in the world, and we have it right here in Providence,” said Mechnig, who had originally bought the painting for $17,500 in 1985.
Call him an activist artist : Giving New Brunswick-born painter E.M Bannister his due
His paintings adorn the walls of of some of the most important buildings in the United States, but it s past time to give New Brunswick-born Black artist E.M. Bannister his due for a lifetime of achievements.
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