The Gallery
Harbor Square Gallery & Thomas O’Donovan Goldsmith Studio is celebrating 30 years!
Since its inception in 1981, Harbor Square Gallery has become one of New England’s premier galleries of Fine Art and Contemporary American Craft. Prominently featured is the gallery’s remarkable collection of fine art jewelry in high carat gold crafted by some of the nation’s most gifted designers and anchored by the work of gallery director and sculptor/goldsmith, Thomas O’Donovan. Housed in one of the area’s most beautiful historic buildings, Harbor Square Gallery proudly welcomes visitors to explore all levels of this graceful old structure completed in 1912, as we begin our twelfth year in the heart of
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You can find us in Rockland, Maine, right next to the Farnsworth Art Museum.
Harbor Square Gallery
374 Main Street
Rockland, ME 04841
(207) 594-8700.
The Muir Garden For Contemporary Sculpture
Adding the crowning jewel to the historic 1912 building, Harbor Square Gallery owner, goldsmith and sculptor Thomas O’Donovan is delighted to introduce The Muir Garden for Contemporary Sculpture, which opened Memorial Day Weekend of 2007. With a vision of an artist, O’Donovan transformed the gallery’s rooftop into a public garden for the express purpose of bringing together people, nature, and stunning works of art in a breathtaking setting that reflects the quintessential beauty of Maine.
Commanding a waterfront view of Rockland Breakwater and Lighthouse, Owls Head Peninsula, and the island of Vinalhaven, The Muir Garden for Contemporary Sculpture is designed to become a destination as visitors are invited to sit and enjoy the sculpture and surroundings of well-appointed plantings, boxwood hedges, sculptural water fountains, and five majestic trees, some of which will stand 25 feet tall at maturity. Employing the expertise of landscape designer Rebecca Jacobs, O’Donovan chose a variety of trees that would complement the shapes, textures, and materials of the sculpture, as well as provide shade and comfort to the public. This led to a selection of a Winter King Hawthorne,