“Daughters of Provincetown” Exhibition
The National Arts Club
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Grand Gallery
Anne and her daughter Cynthia are from a family of gifted artists. Home is Provincetown, an idyllic seaside retreat at the tip of Cape Cod peninsula—a windswept land of clapboard houses and white dunes jutting out into a roiling sea. Provincetown was once a bustling fishing port; concurrent with the development of American Impressionism, its glorious light lured such artists as Charles Hawthorne (an NAC artist life member) who founded an art colony there in 1899. Generations of artists followed him –- similarly (and hopelessly) seduced by the breathtaking vista of sea and sky.
Anne Packard’s grandfather, Max Bohm, a leading American Impressionist, came to Provincetown in 1916. Anne arrived in 1977 and began to develop a spatially sensitive and tonal painting style well suited for capturing the sublime solitude of life by the sea in “off-season.” Like Anne, Cynthia delivers pure drama, albeit through an entirely separate route, by building up her paint surfaces with tar, wax, shellac and plaster and allowing her imagery to drift into a hazy abstraction.
Viewed together, we see two powerful painters offering compelling works as evidence of a genuinely felt and examined existence lived out at land’s end.
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Schedule
from February 03, 2014 to March 01, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-02-05 from 17:00 to 19:00