Gulf Hagas, a Painting by Joel Babb Acquired by the Portland Museum of Art

The Portland Museum of Art has accepted a painting by Joel Babb for the collection as a gift by an anonymous donor in honor of Walter Goldfarb. The painting is expected to be hung in the galleries later this spring. Gulf Hagas is a gorge in the northern Maine woods in the mountains of the hundred mile wilderness portion of the Appalacian Trail. The West Branch of the Pleasant River makes a canyon of three miles length with a series of beautiful waterfalls. The painting is expected to be hung in the galleries later this spring. Walter Goldfarb was a Portland surgeon who has given much of his own collection of 19th Century American paintings to the PMA.