Art

How Did a Painter From Rural Georgia Help Shape Modern Provincetown?

KENNETH STUBBS (1907 – 1967) How does a boy from a tiny town in rural Georgia become one of the artists who helps shape the future of Provincetown? Kenneth Stubbs…

AGNES WEINRICH (1873 – 1946)

Agnes Weinrich arrived in Provincetown in 1914 and quietly helped shape the future of American modernism. Born in Iowa in 1873, she studied in New York and Europe at a…

TOM O’CONNELL: THE INTERVIEW

More than twenty years ago, writer Ellen LeBow described Tom O’Connell’s work as “one great mobile of memory” and observed that viewers were “compelled to project their versions as well.”…

ART: THE PROVINCETOWN 1915

The Spark The Pilgrims first landed in Provincetown before moving on to settle Plymouth. They deemed the hook of land useless for there were dunes of sand for as far…

MAUD SQUIRE

(1873 – 1954)ART ::: ILLUSTRATOR ::: Maud Hunt Squire was born in Cincinnati in 1873, a city that quietly incubated radical talent at the turn of the twentieth century. Trained at the Cincinnati…

ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915 – 1991)

Robert Motherwell was never just a painter; he was the conscience of Abstract Expressionism. A philosopher by temperament and a modernist by necessity, Motherwell believed painting was a form of…

ELLIOT BUDD HOPKINS (1931 – 2011)

Budd Hopkins lived a life full of angles—artistic, architectural, cosmic—and the more you look, the more you realize something is always slipping just out of view. That’s the charm, and…

LONG POINT GALLERY

In 1977, a group of painters and collagists—deeply rooted in both the New York School and the longstanding Provincetown art colony—did something unusual. They founded a gallery that would belong…

PETER HUNT (1896 – 1967)

ART ::: FOLK ART ::: ‘Mr. Hunt arrived in Provincetown with long blond hair, two Afghan dogs, a large black cape and a dwarf in attendance. He was known as “Peter…

HERESY: A SCRAPBOOK OF REBELLION

Of his Happenings, Hansen once explained, “I only prepare the skeleton and then invite people to put meat on it and see what the animal looks like in the end.”…