Pastel on Paper - 24"x 18"
West Quoddy Head Lighthouse stands at the Eastern-most point of the continental United States. Passamaquoddy is a bay on the coast of Maine and also the name of the Native American Tribe - the Passamaquoddy. The Passamaquoddy people are known in English as "People of the Dawn". Passamaquoddy is an Indian word meaning "pollock ground" or "pollock-plenty space". Pollock, meaning the fish known as 'pollock'. 'Quoddy' is a Micmac word (Micmac are a Canadian Indian people) meaning "fertile or beautiful place". 'Head' is the shortened term of the word 'headland', which means a point of land running out into the sea. Thus, Quoddy Head means: 'a fertile or beautiful point of land running out into the sea'.I painted this from a photograph I took when on the Northeast Coast of Maine, Just to the south of the small community of Lubec, ME.
