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Celebrated Newtown Artist’s Work On Display At Library

Published: Mar 23, 2021 08:00 AM

A collection of paintings by a celebrated Newtown artist is on view at C.H. Booth Library.

The collection of works by Ruth Newquist, a signature artist of the National Watercolor Society, is on view through April 23 in the second floor hallway of the library, 25 Main Street.

Newquist and her husband, the late Larry Newquist, founded the Society of the Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) fifty years ago.

Mrs Newquist continues to celebrate her hometown, and New York City, with large and immediately recognizable oils and watercolors.

She has received countless accolades, including artist memberships in the Catharine Lorillard Wolf Art Club, Allied Artists of America, and the Salmagundi Club in New York City, Shore Art Association in Gloucester, Mass., and the Connecticut Watercolor Society.

Her many awards include the highest watercolor award in the Salmagundi Club Annual Membership Exhibition, and the Thomas C. Picard Award for oil painting in the 2002 Salmagundi Club Annual Membership Exhibition.

Her signature works are widely shown throughout New England.

The collection at Booth Library can be seen any time the library is open: Monday through Thursday, 9:30 am-7 pm; and Friday and Saturday, 9:30 am-4 pm.

“Magic of Autumn” is an oil by Ruth Newquist, whose work is being featured in an exhibition at C.H. Booth Library.

Ruth Newquist, NWS, calls the Budd House, depicted in her 31- by 31-inch watercolor, “A Newtown Treasure,” one of the “most beautiful homes on Main Street, Newtown.”

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I am sorry but $88.8 million dollars to educate 4030 kids is way out of line! That's over $22k per kid, used to be $8k per kid, the kids aren't getting any smarter, the administration eats all the cost. Time to cut the budget by 20% and also cut the $225k salary of the superintendent and $193k of the superintendent assistant ! You can get a lot of teachers for $400k wasted for 2 overpaid positions. Common sense should tell you that spending $2.5 million per every week for population less than 30k people is just way too high! Also voting should be done by mail, enough with these nonsensical referendums where barely 16% of voters show up. 51% voters approval should be MANDATED!

Encouraging. The town budget squeaks by but the school budget got dinged. Let the games begin.

Who have you asked that didn't know where to cut? Its easy. Ideally, you would start with section 100 of the budget but the union prevents that. So I say you turn to page 18, put it on your dart board, and start reducing the head count. It's all you can do when the union controls the budget.

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The people have spoken, time to sharpen your pencils. If we look at the town budget for guidance the BOE should cut the budget from 4.4% to 2.75% I find the voting results very interesting ... We have approximately 4,030 students in our town, with a published 12:1 ratio which means we have 335 teachers. I would love to know the actual number if someone knows. If we account for their spouses that gets us very close to the number of people who voted yes for the budget and wished it would be higher (729).

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