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NAA exhibit beautifies library

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By James Kinneen Hometown Weekly Reporter The Needham Art Association’s (NAA) Fall Judged Exhibit is currently on display at the Needham Public Library, with many of the pieces available for purchase. Adorning the wall just to the right of the computers on the top floor, the media ranges from watercolor and oil to silkscreen, acrylic,...
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Needham’s Hammer delights with watercolors

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By Emily Greffenius Hometown Weekly Intern Needham’s Nelson Hammer, whose artwork currently adorns the Wellesley Free Library, began painting birds in watercolor at the age of 68. Although he had dabbled in oil paintings while in college, he laid the painting hobby aside to raise a family and pursue his career. It wasn’t until he came...
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Nelson Hammer exhibiting in Wellesley

Needham landscape architect and artist Nelson Hammer is exhibiting 38 of his watercolor paintings from July 3 through August 30 at the Wellesley Public Library. All the works shown are birds, based on photographs taken by friends, relatives, and by the artist himself. He recently received permission to interpret the photographs of professional wildlife photographer...
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Nelson Hammer exhibiting at Dover Library

Nelson Hammer, a Needham landscape architect and watercolorist, will have 30 of his paintings on display at the Dover Town Library from now through Friday, November 24. Since resuming work in watercolors in 2014 after a 50-year hiatus, birds have been the subject of 43 of the 48 paintings he has produced since then. He...
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