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ape Cod extends its mighty arm into the Atlantic Ocean and offers a more than 60-mile long feast for the eyes and spirit. The peninsula is celebrated for its spectacular light, dramatic dunes, diverse shore lines, picturesque harbors, meandering rivers, sparkling kettle ponds, dense forests, sprawling marshes, and its treasure of protected land, the Cape Cod National Seashore. It is no wonder it has been a haven for artists for more than a century. Even at the dawn of the twentieth century when travel wasn’t easy, many artists journeyed the length of the Cape to find their place in Provincetown. When Charles Hawthorne opened his Cape Cod School of Art there in 1899, it became the spark that launched an art colony. And in 2010 the National Trust for Historic Preservation recognized Provincetown as “home of the nation’s oldest art colony.� Although that captivating town is a hub for the Outer Cape, artists found homes in all the towns that dot Cape Cod. Museums and galleries were established to showcase their work. As the artists were drawn there, so were many others, not only for its beaches and waters, but also for its charm and the opportunity to see the art. The Provincetown Art Association was founded in 1914 for artists to exhibit their work. A year later, five painters donated art and from that point the Provincetown Art Association and Museum has built a collec-
Sky Power, Ebb Tide, 2012, oil on canvas, 60 x 72". Courtesy of Berta Walker Gallery.
tion of more than 3,000 pieces by more than 600 artists who became associated with the legendary art colony. The Provincetown Museum mounts exhibits all year long, yet the summer season is its most ambitious time, and this year, there
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is a dramatic array of work on view. James Balla: Into the blue again, 1992-2012, exhibits work in a variety of media. Balla’s art ranges from vibrant abstractions to playfully conceived pieces related to Pop. This is the first exhibition to feature the full spectrum of
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his work, including monoprints, paintings, and works on paper and Mylar. The show runs through August 11. Also running through August 11 at the museum is a retrospective of the art of Jim Peters, who is known for his provocative, erotic and mysterious paintings of female and male figures in what he calls “small, almost claustrophobic rooms.” The robust, often gritty surfaces of his canvases mounted on plywood, and the materials he adds, multiply the tension that Peters says is so important in his art. Opening July 19 and running through September 2 is Pioneers from Provincetown: The Roots of Figurative Expressionism, an examination of work by artists in Provincetown from the mid-1950s into the early 1960s. The work of Ilya and Resia Schor will be exhibited at the museum from August 16 to September 29. Abstract Marriage: Sculpture by Ilya Schor and Resia Schor explores the connections between mid-20th century European art and the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. In the late 1940s and 50s, Resia Schor worked abstractly while Ilya took up engraving in silver and gold and painted Jewish themes. The photographs of Constantine Manos will be on view at the museum beginning August 16. Going east on Commercial Street is Schoolhouse Gallery, which exhibits the avant-garde work of more than sixty painters, photographers, sculptors, and printmakers. Abstract works by Mike Carroll, Marty Davis, and Keith Maddy, Karen Cappotto’s innovative landscapes, and Gina Kamentsky’s kinetic sculpture introduce you to new worlds. Schoolhouse shows the work of a number of photographers, including Amy Heller’s cyanotypes, William Scully’s underwater photos, and Thom Lussier’s panoramic landscapes. Amy Arbus’s After Images series of painterly photographs, inspired by the work of great artists, will be on view August 9-28. Across Commercial Street from the museum is the Julie Heller Gallery, which has a second location in the center of town on the site of the box office and museum of the historic Provincetown Playhouse on the Wharf. Heller’s gallery is committed to exhibiting the work of artists who made significant contributions to not only the art colony but to the broader world of art. Among the notables in the gallery’s collection are Milton Avery, Oliver Chaffee, Edwin Dickinson, Hans
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Provincetown Art Association and Museum The cultural anchor of the country’s oldest active artist colony.
Summer Exhibitions Art and Craft: Made in Provincetown The James R. Bakker Collection thru June 23
Elspeth Halvorsen: An Intimate Cosmos thru July 7
James Balla: Into the blue again thru August 11
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Lazzell, Agnes Weinrich, B.J.O. Norfeldt, Maud Squire, and Ethel Mars. Related to the long history of the art colony is the Cape School of Art, which was established in 1930 by Henry Hensche when he took over after Charles Hawthorne died. In that impressionistic painting tradition, the Cape School of Art was reestablished in 2010 by a group of Hensche students and aficionados. The classes provide instruction in the impressionistic approach to color and light in representational works. Hilda Neily, a devotee of Hensche’s approach, is among the founders of the school. Along with Neily, Rob Longley, Cedric Egeli, Mary Giammarino, Glenna Hartwell, and others, are teaching classes. Not far from the museum in the East End of Provincetown, where most of the galleries are located, is the Kiley Court Gallery, which exhibits primarily representational oil paint-
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Pioneers from Provincetown: The Roots of Figurative Expression July 19-September 2
Abstract Marriage: Sculpture by Ilya and Resia Schor August 16-September 29
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ings. Owned by local artist Robert Cardinal and his wife, Barbara, the gallery exhibits Cape artists, including Michael Davis, Ann Hartley, Steve Kennedy, Joan Cobb Marsh, Ronald Tinney, and Frank Milby, as well as artists from other areas. Cardinal is known for his richly colored landscapes, featuring pareddown cottages and boats, which capture the Cape at its most dramatic. In contrast to his father’s work, Julian Cardinal’s paintings are softly rendered figures and florals in mostly muted colors. Nearby is Hutson Gallery, featuring a large display of abstract art, something you don’t see very often on the Cape. Along with the abstractions of Steve Barylick, Philip Gerstein, Rose Olson and Melissa Resch are the dramatic figurative paintings of Michael Fenton, and the sculptures of Gary Grossman and Gay Malin. Peter Macara’s Painted Circuits
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series explores the electronic components of computers. William Skerritt’s dramatic prints tell a vivid story in a single image. A little further toward the center of town, Kobalt Gallery exhibits the work of artists in a variety of media and styles ranging from representational landscapes to geometric abstractions. A show of Dave Laro’s Pop Art constructions runs from July 5–16. Deborah Martin’s Narrow Lands exhibit of images of the Outer Cape is featured July 19–30. Sean Flood’s representational paintings take up the first two weeks in August. The last two weeks, when Provincetown is caught up with its annual Carnival, the gallery will have a group show of art on that theme. Galeria Cubana, close to the town’s raucous and colorful center, is dedicated to the paintings, prints, and mixed-media works of Cuban artists. The range provides a colorful
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picture of Cuban culture. Eduardo Guerra’s prints and Sandra Dooley’s paintings are mostly devoted to female figures and each takes a creatively fanciful approach. Also shown in the gallery are the calligraphic prints of Nelson Dominguez, the fantastical paintings of Orestes Gaulhiac, and Reinaldo Campillo’s distinctive perspective on Havana architecture. Located in the East End, on the more sedate Bradford Street, is the Berta Walker Gallery. For 24 years, Berta Walker, whose family established a legacy in the art colony, has exhibited the work of major artists in her gallery. Through July 14, the abstract landscapes of Sky Power are on view. The paintings of artists who established themselves in the early years of the art colony, Charles Hawthorne, Ross Moffett, Oliver Chafee, Karl Knaths, Blanche Lazzell, and Agnes Weinrich,
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CAPE COD, MA along with contemporary artist Paul Resika, are on exhibit through July 14. The shows of the large-scale paintings and gouaches of Robert Henry, the pastels of Judith Katz, and Salvatore Del Deo’s images of his beloved Cape are featured in the gallery from July 19 through August 11. An artist new to the gallery, Murray Zimiles, known for his compelling images of the Holocaust, will exhibit a more recent body of work related to his interest in movement. Richly colored, his fantastical landscapes with roaming animals have metaphoric and anthropomorphic meanings. His show runs from August 16 through September 8, along with an exhibit of the paintings of Herman Maril, who painted summers in Provincetown from 1934 until his death in 1986. As a modernist painter, he simplified figures and objects and organized them with a keen perception of the abstract order of a composition. His subjects range from urban landscapes to coastal seascapes. Cape Cod’s dunes, flats, harbors, fishermen, and boats were often a subject for his paintings. In the West End of town, beyond the hubbub of the center, is Art Market Provincetown, exhibiting multi-disciplined work by visual, conceptual, and performance artists, as well as writers and video and filmmakers. This season features work by Richard Dorff, Dana Dunham, Jennifer Camper, Barbara Hadden, Nancy Marks, Shelley Marlow, Bobby Miller, Jennifer Moller, Keith Krisa, Sam Smiley, Dana Moser, and Kate Moon. Not far from Provincetown is Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, founded more than 40 years ago by sculptor Joyce Johnson. The center offers a wide range of workshops on painting, printmaking, sculpture, pottery, jewelry, and photography. Also available are children’s workshops in painting, drawing, printmaking, clay, and puppetry. Workshops in poetry by U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, poet Mark Doty, and novelist Anne Bernays are among a number of education programs, which include writing biography, memoirs, and plays. Farm Project Space and Gallery, founded in 2005 in Portland, Oregon, by Christine Gallagher and Susie Nielsen, is now located in Wellfleet, where it exhibits contemporary art
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CAPE COD, MA and is also a graphic design studio. At this gallery, there is an opportunity to see a large array of abstract work in various media, something that is limited in most galleries on Cape Cod. Moving south along the Outer Cape to the elbow, where the Tony town of Chatham is located, you will find Odell Studios and Gallery, which features the paintings and prints by Carol Odell and metalwork by her husband, Tom. An abstract artist inspired by nature, Carol works in oil, gouache, monotype, and encaustics. A bold colorist, Carol develops her compositions with a diversity of shapes. In some works, you may find a suggestion of a landscape, but Carol considers her art non-objective. It’s about a sense of space and structure and her creative imagination that evokes a definite mood. Tom’s metalwork includes jewelry, sculpture and hollowware. His designs, like his wife’s, are abstract. His jewelry includes earrings, bracelets, rings, and necklaces. He particularly focuses on brooches and bracelets, which allow his creative interest in sculptural forms the greatest range. His pieces in gold, silver, and platinum are sometimes set with gemstones or pearls. His hollowware is made using the lost wax casting process, and the larger sculptures are fabricated with a variety of metals, including stainless steel, copper, brass, bronze, and aluminum. In the Mid-Cape area in Yarmouth Port on historic Route 6A is Fresh Paint Gallery which features the work of five gallery partners: Selma Alden, Julie Blanchard, Claire Marcus, Robert Mesrop, and Ann O’Connell. Alden sets the scene with groups of people at the beach, enjoying a meal at a diner, watching a ball game, or picnicking. Her work is buoyant, capturing the simple joys of everyday life. Blanchard’s landscapes are softly painted and serene. Marcus’s watercolors take you indoors to an antique shop, a Nantucket home, or a shed. Her landscapes are loosely painted and atmospheric. Mesrop divides his time between city and country. An urban street, a quiet landscape, a view of boats, and a mother and daughter playing on the sand are luminously painted with soft contrasts between light and shadow. Ann O’Connell’s abstractions bring you into a world of shape and color. One piece suggests
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a landscape with layers of forms symbolically representing a forest. Another uses a shell motif. O’Connell layers geometric shapes to build volume and an aesthetically pleasing composition. Closer to the mainland is Cotuit and the Cahoon Museum of American Art, located in a building that dates back to 1775. In the early 19th Century, it operated as a tavern and an overnight stop on the stagecoach line between Sandwich and Hyannis. In 1945, Ralph and Martha Cahoon purSky Power, Midnight, 2011, oil on canvas, 24 x 30". Courtesy of Berta Walker Gallery. chased the building for their resiArt of the Cape Cod Garden: Watercolors by Karen dence and studio, where they painted their Pinard, and August 13 through September 22 whimsical folk art. The Cahoons began by the coastal landscapes by Cape artist Ronald decorating furniture inspired by Swedish, Tinney. Pennsylvania-German, and American folk art. —Deb Forman Later they went on to painting pictures. Ralph is known for his fanciful scenes populated with mermaids and sailors. Martha depicted country life illuminated with flowers, birds, and shells. Today the Cahoon Museum houses a collection of their work, along with 19th, 20th, and 21st century contemporary American art. Exhibitions at Cahoon this summer will dig into the past with a show of photographs picturing old Cape Cod, and another of paintings and three-dimensional work depicting historical properties and events on the Cape. These shows run July 9 through August 18. On August 20, In Praise of Women: How Women Are Portrayed in American Art opens. Also on view July 2 through August 11 is
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VARUJAN BOGHOSIAN, Blind Love, 2012, collage, 12 5/8 X 22 1/4” (framed) ELSPETH HALVORSEN, The Whole World is Watching, 9/11, 2001, box construction, 28 x 49 x 5”
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ED GIOBBI, Up Yours, Irene, #4, (Hurricane Series) 1956-2012, oil on linen, 65 x 44”
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5/24 - 6/16 Recovered Poetry: Three Masters of Construction & Collage
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6/21 - 7/14 SKY POWER Landscape Spirit Provincetown Masters: "On The Road" mixed media group ex. CHAFFEE, HAWTHORNE, KNATHS, LAZZELL, MOFFETT, RESIKA, WEINRICH ROMOLO DEL DEO Maquettes for Outdoor Sculpture Commissions
SKY POWER, The Poet's Train, 2012, oil on canvas, 36 x 48"
ROBERT HENRY, Above and Below, 2012, oil on canvas, 60 x 40”
7/19 - 8/11 ROBERT HENRY It all Started With... large-scale paintings and gouaches
JUDYTH KATZ Patterns in Pastel SALVATORE DEL DEO Cape Vignettes small paintings
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SALVATORE DEL DEO, Still Life with Tinkers, Skate & Crab, 1989, oil on paper, 16 X 19 1/2”
HERMAN MARIL Activity by the Sea paintings and drawings MURRAY ZIMILES Movement and Light paintings and pastels
9/13 - 10/6 MURRAY ZIMILES, Luminosity, 2012, oil and mixed media on canvas, 60 x 40”
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JUDYTH KATZ, Storm Sky, Truro, 2004, pastel on board, 9 3/4 x 12 5/8”
HERMAN MARIL, Duck Decoy & Flowers, 1958, oil on canvas, 14 X 18”
Nurture Your Spirit — visit Berta Walker Gallery REPRESENTING Varujan Boghosian, Romolo Del Deo, Salvatore Del Deo, *Gilbert Franklin, Ed Giobbi, *Dimitri Hadzi, Elspeth Halvorsen, Robert Henry, Brenda Horowitz, Penelope Jencks, Judyth Katz, John Kearney, Anne MacAdam, Danielle Mailer, *Herman Maril, Erna Partoll, Sky Power, Blair Resika, Paul Resika, Selina Trieff, Peter Watts, *Nancy Whorf, Murray Zimiles and PROVINCETOWN MASTERS Oliver Chaffee, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Charles W. Hawthorne, Hans Hofmann, Karl Knaths, Blanche Lazzell, Ross Moffett, Agnes Weinrich. *Estates
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