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| Monhegan paintings| Narrator: Two islands have been most important in Reuban Tam's world. Besides his early years on Kauai, Tam spent 40 years in N.Y. and spent each summer on Monhegan Island--10 miles out in the Atlantic off the coast of Maine. His intimate knowledge of weather, of light, of vegetation and seasonal changes gives us much more than pretty landscape paintings. Air currents, temperature, atmosphere, wind--all invisible elements--are immediately conveyed to us. Rock formations, ancient crevices, bands of quartz, violet pools of Irish moss--although abstracted, can be readily seen and understood. Whatever Tam paints has an equivalent in nature. 
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| Tam and Monhegan works| His V.O of differences and influences of Monhegan... ie... "...unlike the rich, warm, red and burnt sienna colors of Hawaii, here it is cold, gray, and granite. The sky can be opaque with fog for weeks on end, and your palette runs to gray and