NEW YORK – A documentary about one of Maine’s most beloved painters will have its New York City premiere Nov. 12, while a gallery in the city is mounting a show in his honor.

“Stephen Pace: Maine Master,” a film about the life and work of the former Stonington resident and his wife, Pam, which was directed by Richard Kane of Sedgwick, will have two showings at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab, which is located at 550 Madison Ave. at 56th Street. The showings will be held at 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The documentary is the ninth artist portrayal in the Maine Masters Project, which is sponsored by the Union of Maine Visual Artists.

A opening reception will be held at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 12 at the Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, which will show a retrospective of Pace’s life work titled “Stephen Pace: Seven Decades (1940-2000).” The Perlow gallery is located at 41 East 57th St. in the Fuller Building.

Kane, an Abstract Expres-sionist who now lives in his native Indiana, worked with some of the leading artists of his day including Hans Hofmann and Franz Kline. Kane’s work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirschhorn Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Phillips Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Academy of Design and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Seating is limited for the documentary showings. RSVP to kanelewis@aol.com.