Offices and through annual grant funding programs . Both Indian Township and Pleasant Point operate Tribal Museums .
Artists and writers have memorialized the Downeast landscape in works of art and literature and continue to be drawn here today . Maine ’ s roughhewn vistas of sea , forest and mountain have stirred the souls of generations of artists , who glean source material from the rugged coast and mountains ; peaceful lakes and forests ; dramatic tidal and seasonal fluctuations ; small , tight-knit communities ; the natural resources industries ; maritime culture ; and the steady , humble push of people going about their daily lives . For many of Maine ’ s artists , inspiration comes from the timeless , enduring elements : the people , landscape , climate , history , and lifestyle .
By the mid to late 19th century , regular steamship service connected Portland and Boston to the west and Saint John , New Brunswick to the east . Artists from far and wide were now able to more easily frequent the area . Artists of the Hudson River school like Thomas Cole , Fitz Hugh Lane , and Frederic Church memorialized the dramatic landscape of Acadia in paintings , which caught the attention of tourists who spurred the “ Rusticator ” movement .
Artist Harrison Bird Brown of Portland painted a number of scenes of nearby Grand Manan Island , New Brunswick with many featuring Passamaquoddy encampments . Boston based artists Alfred Bricher , William Edward Norton and Edward Wilbor Dean Hamilton painted coastal scenes of West Quoddy Head in Maine and the summer colony at Campobello Island and Grand Manan in New Brunswick . In the 1890s , Boston based nature photographer , William Lyman Underwood , began to take excursion trips for fishing and hunting to Duck Lake in northern Washington County with Passamaquoddy guides . A number of the photographs that he took during his trips to this area appear in his subsequent books , Wild Brother : Strangest of True Stories from the North Woods and Wilderness Adventures .
Fog off Mt . Desert Island - Artists of the Hudson River school like Thomas Cole , Fitz Hugh Lane , and Frederic Church memorialized the dramatic landscape of Acadia in paintings , which caught the attention of tourists who spurred the “ Rusticator ” movement . Work by Frederick Erwin Church .
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