Large format is the size of the summer on the walls of three Martha’s Vineyard art galleries, with expansive landscapes, abstracts and abstract landscapes by several distinctly different painters.

At gallery openings up-Island Sunday evening, striking landscapes dominated the works. Some were familiar, others almost hallucinatory.

In the late summer of 1953, the artists Thomas Hart Benton and Denys Wortman sat for each other in Benton’s Chilmark studio for what became a dual portrait session, dubbed “the Battle of Beetlebung Corners” (sic) by Collier’s magazine that October.

No matter how many times you may have visited the Granary Gallery in West Tisbury, you've never seen it like this.