Lucy Clark Winant; watercolor artist
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By Theresa Sanchez, Globe Correspondent | July 21, 2004
Lucy Clark Winant of Marblehead, a former art teacher and
prize-winning non-traditional watercolor artist, died Sunday
at North Shore Medical Center in Salem after a brief
heart-related illness. She was 77.
Mrs. Winant taught painting and art history on the North
Shore, at Salem State College, and in the Marblehead school
system.
She was a member of both the Marblehead and Swampscott Art
Associations and the New England Watercolor Society.
Her husband, Alvin, submitted her latest piece -- a
watercolor landscape titled ''Springtime Sugaring Off" -- in
the Marblehead Art Festival this month.
He plans on putting together a retrospective exhibit of her
paintings next April.
According to her son, Joshua T. of Henniker, N.H., she
preferred painting portraits to landscapes because she
enjoyed working with people.
''She had a real talent for capturing the person in a way
that was very unique -- a way that had not been seen by that
person before," her son said. ''She transcended the outward
person to grab an essence of their life in each image."
Mrs. Winant was born and grew up in Brighton. She completed
a two-year program at Lasell College in Newton and went on
to study drama and art at Emerson College in Boston.
After graduating from the former Vesper George School of Art
in Boston, she worked for nine years at Hougthon-Mifflin
Publishing Co. in Boston.
While in school, Mrs. Winant met her husband. The couple
moved to Marblehead after marrying in April of 1965.
She drew inspiration from many different artists.
Her husband described her painting style as ''loose and
spontaneous."
Mrs. Winant was a Copley Artist Member of the Copley Society
of Boston and a member of the Friends of Marblehead Public
Library.
She also volunteered with the American Red Cross in
Marblehead and enjoyed reading detective novels and
gardening.
Mrs. Winant's sincere interest in life and the unfamiliar
made it easy for her to befriend many, recalled her son.
''What was one of the most amazing things about my mom was
her love of what she didn't know," he said.
''She truly had the ability to see the good in everyone. She
saw us on a stage that was both sort of tragic and comedic
at the same time, where everyone was a player in the act."
In addition to her husband and son, Mrs. Winant leaves
another son, Alvin J. Jr. of Sutton; a daughter, Katherine
I. of Biddeford, Maine; and seven grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. in St.
Andrew's Church, Marblehead.
