Newly opened Newburyport gallery rides the wind of change

By Terry Date
The Eagle-Tribune

Vintage Chic Anew owner Kimberley Wilson, left, and Newburyport artist Karen Fitzgerald wear their face coverings as they check on the gallery in the story. Bryan Eaton.

Vintage Chic Anew owner Kimberley Wilson, left, and Newburyport artist Karen Fitzgerald wear their face coverings as they check on the gallery in the story. Bryan Eaton.

The fledgling Pleasant Street Gallery has aged beyond its mere two months, plying, as it has, coronavirus currents.

Framed art fills the walls in neat columns like sails on masts.

Fields, streams, skies, cityscapes and seascapes hang inside the gallery in the Vintage Chic Anew store in downtown Newburyport.

Below the oils, watercolors and photographs sit painted dressers, woven baskets, candlestick holders and vases.

Replicas of vintage signs invite nostalgia.

Seated in chairs at opposite sides of a long table are Newburyport artist Karen Fitzgerald, in a red mask, and store owner Kimberley Wilson, in a blue mask.

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