Alna Meetinghouse (1789) in Autumn
Limited Edition Fine Art Print — by Jonathan Luoma
Alna artist Jonathan Luoma painted the 1789 Meetinghouse from above — the yellow clapboard building catching the autumn light as Route 218 winds past brilliant maples and oaks, rolling fields, and rain falling over the far hills. His watercolor is now offered as a signed, numbered fine-art print in an edition of just five.
An edition of only 5 — each print hand-signed and numbered in pencil by the artist.
About the Artwork
Jonathan Luoma's watercolor gives an elevated view of the Alna Meetinghouse and the country around it in full autumn. The yellow clapboard Meetinghouse stands in the lower right, with the historic Center School one-room schoolhouse in the middle distance, its cupola just visible among the trees, while Route 218 threads through the scene. Maples, oaks, and evergreens blaze against rolling green fields and scattered homesteads, and a dramatic sky carries rain across the forested hills in the distance.
Luoma first painted it as a donation to the Town of Alna for the cover of its annual report. A local supporter bought the original and placed it on indefinite loan to the town, where it has hung in the Alna town office meeting room ever since. This limited edition — reproduced from a 600 DPI scan of the original watercolor — brings that image into a small number of collectors' hands for the first time.
About the Edition
Each print is produced by Maine Photo Works in Portland on German Etching, a heavyweight cotton fine-art paper with a texture close to the original watercolor sheet, using archival pigment inks expected to last 80–100+ years without noticeable fading. Every print is hand-signed by Jonathan Luoma in pencil in the lower right and individually numbered (1/5, 2/5, …) in the lower left. Once the edition of five is gone, no more will be made.
$250 · Limited edition of 5 · 24″ × 18″ · German Etching fine-art paper · Archival pigment inks · Signed & numbered in pencil
Unframed, unmatted
Ships flat in a rigid, do-not-bend mailer via USPS, fully insured. Local pickup in Alna available — see options at checkout.
Hand-signed and numbered limited edition fine art print of Jonathan Luoma's watercolor "Alna Meetinghouse (1789) in Autumn." Edition of 5. 24″ × 18″ on German Etching fine-art paper, archival pigment inks, unframed.
A portion of each purchase supports Historic Alna's mission to maintain, preserve, restore, and encourage the use of Alna's historic sites.
About the Artist
Jonathan Luoma has lived and painted in Alna for some thirty years. A 1975 studio-art graduate of Marlboro College in Vermont, he studied traditional ink painting in China in 2006, and his work moves between Western watercolor and Chinese ink traditions. His usual subjects are the Maine landscape — coast, forests, wildlife, and preserves from Baxter State Park to Acadia to the midcoast. He currently shows paintings at the Pemaquid Gallery of Art at Lighthouse Park in Bristol from May through October. His illustrations for a letterpress edition of Thoreau's The Maine Woods are in the permanent collection of the Portland Museum of Art. He was formerly an illustrator for the Maine Times and an artist-in-residence at the Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson. See more of his work at jonluoma.com.
