Back from Painting Trip
Back from a wonderful time in Provincetown or PTown as it is affectionately known by the locals. I loved the light and color and worked on a series of lighthouses, ocean scenes and marsh/ponds while I was there. Here's a work in progress from the marsh photo that I share in an earlier post.
I caught up with some old friends there and had a wonderful dinner in an old building along the sea shore in Provincetown. The building was bought up many years ago by a collective of artists and writers. Amongst the company that night were fellow artists and sea-faring adventurers who spent most of their time in boats on the ocean. One lovely man that I met, Richard Bailey, was captain of the Tall Ship Rose, a replica of an 18th century Royal Navy frigate that cruised the American coast during the Revolutionary War. The boat was used during the making of Peter Weir's "Master and Commander.
HMS Rose 2002 © 2003 Scott Kennedy
Amongst the painters was Paul Resika, colorist and student of Hans Hoffman.
I didn't get a chance to visit the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center but plan on visiting during my next visit. Here's a bit of history:
"The Fine Arts Work Center buildings are historic art studios in a town that is famous for its contributions to art history. For over a hundred years, artists and writers have found the atmosphere of Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod particularly suited to them. Henry Thoreau was probably the first writer to come to Provincetown, in 1849. Eugene O'Neill wrote his first play here at a time when he was known to the art community as an obscure writer of one-act plays. O'Neill's first play was produced by the Provincetown Players the winter of 1916, before he went to New York with his actors to win recognition and fame. John Dos Passos lived and worked in Provincetown. In the late 20's, he was known by the artists not as a writer but as a painter who showed his paintings with them at the local Provincetown Art Association. Stanley Kunitz, Norman Mailer, Alan Dugan, B. H. Friedman, and Mark Strand are contemporary writers who have lived and worked in Provincetown and are active in the Work Center Program.
Charles Hawthorne is credited with founding the first art colony in America in Provincetown in 1899. Starting in 1914, Hawthorne lived and worked in studios of what is now the Fine Arts Work Center. Among his students in the teens were Edwin Dickinson, Ross Moffett and Karl Knaths, all living and working in the studios of 24 Pearl Street, and later gaining national and international acclaim. Fritz Bultman, Paul Burlin, Adolph Gottlieb, Helen Frankenthaler, Myron Stout, and Marsden Hartley are among other famous artists who worked in these studios. Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Claus Oldenburg, Milton Avery, Jack Tworkov and Edward Hopper have all participated in the art community here. Important paintings by Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, and Edward Hopper have centered around their involvement in this small seaport town."
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