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A woodblock print by artist Dan Fionte of the large fish shack at Lane's Cove Gloucester.
Fish Shack at Lane's Cove
Woodblock print on Shin Torinoko White
10"x10"
2025


Lane's Cove in Lanesville, a neighborhood of Gloucester, is home to a number of "fish shacks" that have great character. I've always enjoyed the large fish shack at the edge of the cove, and it's recent renovation is a sort of metaphor for it's "life" and preservation.

Besides Gloucester being a place rich with history and inspiring scenery, a friend of mine with a family connection to Lane's Cove gifted me a drafting table once owned and used by a Gloucester printmaker; Louise Kenyon. Louise, whom they called Weezie, was a member of the Folly Cove designers, a group of artists who practiced linoleum block printing; primarily monochromatic designs printed on cloth. Weezie's designs feature birds eye, flat folk-art views of Cape Ann maritime scenery and themes. Since Folly Cove is in the Lanesville, and from what I understand Weezie is from Lane's Cove specifically, I thought a view of Lane's Cove would make a nice homage Weezie, her art, and her family.