Table Of ContentContributors Director's Foreword - Douglas K. S. Hyland Foreword - Stephen Borkowski Acknowledgments - Alexander J. Noelle "Bringing The Colony To Light,"- Alexander J. Noelle 1899: Charles Webster Hawthorne Founds The Cape Cod School Of Art - James R. Bakker 1914-27: The Provincetown Art Association and Museum - Christine M. McCarthy 1927-31: Blanche Lazzell and The Advancement Of Modernism - Robert Bridges 1927-31: Ross Moffett and The Modernist Tradition - Josephine C. Del Deo 1935-66: Hans Hofmann in Provincetown - Deborah Forman 1950s: Academic and Impressionist Trends In Provincetown - Elizabeth Ives Hunter 1958-74: The Tirca Karlis Gallery: Pivotal Decades Of Provincetown Art - Julie Heller And Whitney Smith 1968-98: Restoring The Art Colony to Its Former Glory - Deborah Forman 1999-2011: The Gravity Of Provincetown - Alexander J. Noelle Exhibition Checklist Lenders To The Exhibition Photography Credits
SynopsisThis exhibition and accompanying catalogue focus on Provincetown's legacy as an art colony, during the period from Charles W. Hawthorne's founding of the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899 to the present day. Covering more than 100 artists, this is the largest and most comprehensive survey of the art colony completed in over forty years. The catalogue is divided into nine sections that focus on various events in the art colony, such as Hans Hofmann and Forum 49, the establishment of the Tirca Karlis Gallery, and the founding of the Fine Arts Work Center. Essays by leading Provincetown scholars highlight the narrative of Provincetown's importance in America's art history. While many artists worked or lived in Provincetown for years, others "passed through" the art colony. As this catalogue shows, Provincetown's influence extended to many of the great artists of the twentieth century, including Avery, Baziotes, de Kooning, Demuth, Motherwell, Pollock, Rothko, and Warhol. Exhibition Schedule: New Britain Museum of American Art: July 15-October 16, 2011 Westmoreland Museum of American Art: October 30, 2011-January 15, 2012 Wichita Art Museum: February 5-April 29, 2012 Cape Cod Museum of Art: May 18-August 26, 2012, A scholarly exploration of Provincetown's development over the twentieth century and its contribution to the history of American art, particularly American Impressionism, Modernism, and Abstract Expressionism, This exhibition and accompanying catalogue focus on Provincetown's legacy as an art colony, during the period from Charles W. Hawthorne's founding of the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899 to the present day. Covering more than 100 artists, this is the largest and most comprehensive survey of the art colony completed in over forty years. The catalogue is divided into nine sections that focus on various events in the art colony, such as Hans Hofmann and Forum 49, the establishment of the Tirca Karlis Gallery, and the founding of the Fine Arts Work Center. Essays by leading Provincetown scholars highlight the narrative of Provincetown's importance in America's art history. While many artists worked or lived in Provincetown for years, others "passed through" the art colony. As this catalogue shows, Provincetown's influence extended to many of the great artists of the twentieth century, including Avery, Baziotes, de Kooning, Demuth, Motherwell, Pollock, Rothko, and Warhol. Exhibition Schedule: New Britain Museum of American Art: July 15-October 16, 2011Westmoreland Museum of American Art: October 30, 2011-January 15, 2012Wichita Art Museum: February 5-April 29, 2012Cape Cod Museum of Art: May 18-August 26, 2012