Provincetown and the Works Progress Administration,
A Lecture with Whitney Smith, Tuesday, June 30, 7pm
The New Deal art programs introduced numerous artists to the national scene, paved the way for the modern art movement of the 1940s and 1950s, and ultimately preserved the Provincetown art colony. The importance of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in the history of Provincetown and its artists will be discussed in this timely lecture.
Whitney Smith received her Masters of Art degree in history from the University of New Hampshire. Her thesis examines the impact of the Federal Art Project on Provincetown and its lasting importance in local and national art history. She has summered in Truro and Provincetown her whole life and this will mark her fourth summer working at the Julie Heller Art Gallery.
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Chasing the Sun: A Lecture on the Artist E. Ambrose Webster
with Gail R. Scott, Tuesday, July 7, 7pm
Based on her recently published monograph, E. Ambrose Webster: Chasing the Sun (Hudson Hill Press, 2009), Gail Scott's lecture will focus on the art and life of one of Provincetown's first and foremost painters. Webster, along with Charles W. Hawthorne, settled in Provincetown at the turn of the 20th Century. Scott places Webster among the great color innovators of 20th century American art. A book signing will follow the lecture.
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Gail R. Scott’s monograph E. Ambrose Webster: Chasing the Sun (Hudson Hill Press, 2009),is the first in-depth study of Provincetown’s preeminent pioneer of American modernism. Scott has also published extensively on both the painting and writing of Marsden Hartley, including On Art by Marsden Hartley (1982) and Selected Poems (1987)—collections of his essays and poetry, a monograph, Marsden Hartley (1988), as well as numerous catalogue essays and articles. An independent art historian, curator, and arts consultant living in Portland, Maine, Scott’s publications also include books and essays on, among others, the art of Carl Sprinchorn, Marguerite and William Zorach, Kenneth Stubbs, and Don Nice.
American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism: Style is Timely, Art is Timeless
A Lecture with Marika Herskovic, Saturday, August 8 at 3pm
l. Robert Motherwell, r. Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 70, 1961, Robert Motherwell (American, 1915–1991)Oil on canvas,69 x 114 in. (175.3 x 289.6 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Anonymous Gift, 1965 (65.247) © Dedalus Foundation, Inc./Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Marika Herskovic will discuss her latest book American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism: Style is Timely, Art is Timeless, a survey of fifty-eight American painters and sculptors of the post-World War II era. Herskovic will illuminate the ways in which the most engaged mainstream creative work in New York and across the USA was not restricted to non-representational or representational expressionism, but rather to the creative power of the individual expressionist artist.
Marika Herskovic is the editor of two comprehensive volumes: New York School Abstract Expressionists: Artists Choice by Artists; and American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, both published by the New York School Press, a publishing company dedicated to fine documentary art books.
Herskovic is a scientist by training. She received her MSc. And Ph.D from the Graduate School of Arts and Science of New York University, New York City. She produced 27 videos on the art and lives of the artists of the New York School. These videos, repeatedly shown on cable TV, were listed in Art on Screen—a joint venture of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Trust. She has hosted numerous videotaped artist seminars and spent the past two decades documenting the New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals, the participating artists and their art.
Charles W. Hawthorne and Provincetown, A Lecture with Mary E. Abell
Tuesday, August 11, 7pm
Charles W. Hawthorne's early background as a painter and his artistic influences will be examined against the backdrop of the period, from his arrival in Provincetown in 1899 to his death in 1930. The establishment of Hawthorne's Cape Cod School of Art, his teaching philosophy and methods, and his involvement with the Provincetown Art Association and the Beachcombers will be addressed. Hawthorne's artistic legacy in terms of his work and teaching impact on his students will also be explored.
Mary Ellen Abell earned her Ph.D. in Art History at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (2001), focusing on American art. She was the curator of the comprehensive 2007 exhibition at PAAM, Edwin Dickinson in Provincetown 1912-1937. Her dissertation is entitled “Edwin Dickinson: His Work, Teaching and Critical Reception.” She has written two essays on Dickinson's work for the Edwin Dickinson: Dreams and Realities catalogue (2002), which accompanied the traveling museum exhibition organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. From 1987-1994, she was Director of the Long Point Gallery in Provincetown. Mary has spent 35 summers on the Outer Cape. She is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Visual Arts Department at Dowling College, Oakdale, New York.
Judith Rothschild : Response to The Real with Tracey Anderson, Tuesday, September 1, 7pm
The art historian Anne d'Harnoncourt described Judith Rothschild as a creative force who viewed “being an artist as an individual necessity, a collective enterprise, and a responsibility to the public and her fellow artists." Rothschild was a student of Hans Hofmann's and a gifted young practitioner of leading European modernist theories. She was a founding member of the Long Point Gallery and when she died in 1993, she willed the creation of the Judith Rothschild Foundation. Join the artist Tracey Anderson for a discussion of her life and work.
Tracey Anderson graduated in Drawing & Painting from Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland and completed Post Graduate Studies at The Royal College of Art in London. She has participated in many group and solo exhibitions in the UK as well as in New York and Provincetown. She has exhibited work locally for the last six years and is currently represented by the Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown. She has lectured on the history of Provincetown art and taught classes in a variety of media at the Museum School at PAAM; Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA; and the Great River Arts Institute of Bellows Falls, VT. Her website and art blog can be found at: www.tracysandfordanderson.com.
Oliver Newberry Chaffee, with Solveiga Rush, Tuesday, September 15
Referred to as "modern before modernism was popular," the artist Oliver Chaffee dedicated a lifetime to the pursuit of a personal visual vocabulary. Chaffee's influence as a teacher as well as a painter and printmaker continues to be felt today. Join art historian and Chaffee scholar Solveiga Rush for a lecture on the life and work of the artist. Rush will examine Chaffee's influences and creative evolution during 40 years of artistic production.)
Solveiga Rush received her Masters in Art History from the University of Michigan in 1961. She is Professor of Art History at University College of the University of Cincinnati where she has taught since 1969. Her teaching has included Italian Renaissance Art, Baroque Painting and Sculpture, Modern European Painting and Sculpture and the Symbolist Movement in Art. Rush spent several years researching Oliver Chaffee’s life and cataloguing his known works in private and public collections. Her book, Oliver Newberry Chaffee (1881-1944), published by the Taft Museum in Cincinnati represents the culmination of that research.
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