Down the Road:
Wellfleet Printmakers from the 20th Century is on view at the Provincetown Art
Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, from April 7 through May 21, 2017. It’s
a wide reaching show with exceptional examples of work by Clare Leighton and including
many of the actual woodblocks for her 1954 book, Where Land Meets Sea – The
Enduring Cape Cod, jewels in themselves. Leighton’s print of the Oyster Houses,
1948 (and my new favorite of hers), is paired with a related preparatory
drawing, as well as Peggy Bacon’s Low Tide, 1952, Albert Edel’s extremely
scarce Oyster Shacks, and even Stow Wengenroth’s Oyster Shacks. Thanks to
Thomas Broker for going through this with me and putting it together in the
first place.
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| Clare Leighton, wood engravings with blocks for Where Land Meets Sea |
For Bacon there
are nearly all her Wellfleet subjects including early and final states for
several, including High Brows, and some such as Priceless Find shown both in
lithograph and drypoint versions, one with extensive state and printing
notations by Bacon.
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| Peggy Bacon, Low Tide, 1952, drypoint |
Thomas R.
Broker and Arthur N. Gilbert are the curators of the exhibition. They both have
a deep knowledge of the material and appreciation for the contributions made by
the artists.
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| Provincetown Art Association and Museum, April, 2017 |
The Provincetown
Art Association and Museum was founded in 1914. A renovation in 2005 and 06
expanded the square footage to 19,500. It is the most visited art museum on
Cape Cod. Our thanks go to Christine McCarthy, Executive Director, for
recognizing the national importance of the locally titled Wellfleet Printmakers.
A list on the
STG site also features Truro artists JUDITH SHAHN and her father BEN SHAHN, Provincetown
artists MARY SINCLAIR, BETTY WALDO PARISH, and sister and brother DOROTHY
GREGORY and JOHN GREGORY. Cape Cod subjects are used for many, but especially
for artists who may have been more casual visitors such as HOWARD DAUM who
would have been visiting his NYC teacher Hans Hofmann, PETER GRIPPE, and HUGH
MESIBOV.
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