Gloria Nardin was a celebrated artist that grew up in Queens, NY and spent her summers in Provincetown with her children. When she permanently moved to Wellfleet with her second husband and kids, she began to focus more on color photography. She was particularly interested in utilizing her camera as the role of the painter. In her snapshot of the Outer Cape back shore dunes, she captured the delicate texture and rippling of the sand, a pattern that may have naturally formed through erosion or possibly indented by the artist herself.

Elizabeth Boardman Warren was born in Connecticut, studied fine arts in Boston, and visited Provincetown regularly to work with local artists. She moved to another artist colony in St. Augustine, FL with her husband and known artist, Tod Lindenmouth. She signed her work as “EB” to disguise her identity as a woman due to male artists gaining more recognition throughout the early 1900s. Although watercolor was her preferred medium, Warren studied etching with William Henry Warren Bicknell and created many coastal scenes during her time on the Cape.

Sol Wilson was a Polish-born American painter who spent his summers in Provincetown. He immigrated to New York as a teenager and later studied with artists such as George Bellows and Robert Henri. Wilson drew inspiration from their interest in depicting everyday life, though with his own style of expressive and gestural painting. Many of his landscapes are populated with abstracted human figures. His rendering of the Cape dunes showcases the large-scale geography in comparison to the human form, as well as reveals the textural diversity of the sand and beach vegetation.

Cohen is a contemporary artist living and working in both Provincetown and Manhattan. Her two works in this collection are from her books "Dog in the Dunes" (1988) and "Dog in the Dunes Revisited" (2005), both collections of portraits she made of her Labrador retriever, Gabe, during her two week residency in a dune shack. Both pieces are polaroid film stills that Cohen then painted over, exhibiting her mastery of fine detail in the confinement of such a small surface. She illustrates her furry companion in both the interior and exterior of the shack, showcasing the small size and simplicity of the wooden structure.

Cohen is a contemporary artist living and working in both Provincetown and Manhattan. Her two works in this collection are from her books "Dog in the Dunes" (1988) and "Dog in the Dunes Revisited" (2005), both collections of portraits she made of her Labrador retriever, Gabe, during her two week residency in a dune shack. Both pieces are polaroid film stills that Cohen then painted over, exhibiting her mastery of fine detail in the confinement of such a small surface. She illustrates her furry companion in both the interior and exterior of the shack, showcasing the small size and simplicity of the wooden structure.

Like many artists of the time, Busa arrived in Provincetown in the 1930s to study with Hans Hofmann. He resided here permanently for about a decade before moving to East Hampton. Busa was a remarkable figure of Abstract Expressionism and later became known for his Indian Space Painting, a style that combined surrealist ideas with Native American tribal motifs and forms. This work features a colorful depiction of two shacks in a more well-preserved state, complete with fencing and their own garden.

Raymond Elman is a contemporary photographer currently living and working in Miami, FL. Earlier in his artistic career in the 1970s, he spent time on the Outer Cape as well. Elman has many works of this style of portraiture, capturing pictures of notable people that he has encountered in his life in front of locations that are meaningful to them. In this photograph, he captured Joyce Johnson, another acclaimed artist that worked with sculpture in Provincetown. She was also a founder of the Peaked Hill Trust and helped preserve the historic shacks.

Joyce Zavorskas is a contemporary artist that has exhibited in London, Paris, New York, Philadelphia, California, Boston, and Cape Cod. Many of her recent works focus on erosional landforms, investigating images of natural disorder and nature’s disruption of familiar landscapes. These works from 1989 during her time in the Peaked Hill dune shack are more homogenous, though reveal the rustic architecture of the shack itself. They are weathered structures that are often built on pilings to adjust to the constantly changing environment.

Angele Myrer was an American artist who lived and worked in Massachusetts. She made many white-line woodblock prints, a technique pioneered by a group of female artists working in Provincetown in the early 20th century, known as the Provincetown Printers. Her woodblock print of the dunes is composed of transparent colorful hues, producing a watercolor-like effect. Her other composition of the dunescape is much more geometric and chromatic, with an emphasis on darker tones and rigid lines. Although the abstracted color palette and the indiscernible structure on the right may paint a less recognizable image, the inclusion of the three seagulls recalls the nature of the seascape.

A professional landscape artist originally from Bridgeport, CT, Raymond Eastwood spent his summers on Cape Cod and in California painting the natural world. His rendering of the Outer Cape dunescape captures the powerful essence of stillness and serenity, particularly in the unmoving dune grass and the hazy open sky.

Joel Janowitz is a contemporary artist that has exhibited his work in various public collections across the country. His work aims to tackle the emotive and psychological potentials of pictorial space. He enjoys painting in series, as it offers a chance to explore how color, light, and paint can change how one perceives and experiences a work, despite the subject matter remaining the same. In his Dunes/Dissolve series, Janowitz uses watercolors to slightly change the scattering of vegetation and sand textures while remaining in the same color palette.

Joel Janowitz is a contemporary artist that has exhibited his work in various public collections across the country. His work aims to tackle the emotive and psychological potentials of pictorial space. He enjoys painting in series, as it offers a chance to explore how color, light, and paint can change how one perceives and experiences a work, despite the subject matter remaining the same. In his Dunes/Dissolve series, Janowitz uses watercolors to slightly change the scattering of vegetation and sand textures while remaining in the same color palette.

Joel Janowitz is a contemporary artist that has exhibited his work in various public collections across the country. His work aims to tackle the emotive and psychological potentials of pictorial space. He enjoys painting in series, as it offers a chance to explore how color, light, and paint can change how one perceives and experiences a work, despite the subject matter remaining the same. In his Dunes/Dissolve series, Janowitz uses watercolors to slightly change the scattering of vegetation and sand textures while remaining in the same color palette.

William Harry Warry Bicknell (W.H.W.) was a famed artist that has exhibited in various public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian. A native of Boston, Bicknell permanently moved to Winchester but kept a studio in Provincetown. Though he had some works of portraiture, he was most well known for his etching. His two pieces in this collection exhibit his mastery of fine line detail and texture, utilized to illuminate the concentration of light and dark.

Originally from Providence RI, Salvatore Del Deo permanently resided in Provincetown with his wife and poet Josephine Breen Del Deo. Del Deo has been visiting the dune shack that he called “Frenchie’s,” nicknamed after his friend and the original owner, Jeanne “Frenchie” Chanel, for decades. He and his son Romolo rebuilt their iconic shack in the 1970s after it was damaged from a turbulent rainstorm. Del Deo's style and approach to painting landscapes resembles some of the work of Paul Cezanne, especially in the emphasis on horizontal and vertical gestures and the use of color as structure. Although he has some works of town life, Deo admits, “It doesn’t satisfy me. I had to come to the inner core of this crazy land, there’s an anatomy here to this landscape of long horizontals unlike other places.”

Originally from Providence RI, Salvatore Del Deo permanently resided in Provincetown with his wife and poet Josephine Breen Del Deo. Del Deo has been visiting the dune shack that he called “Frenchie’s,” nicknamed after his friend and the original owner, Jeanne “Frenchie” Chanel, for decades. He and his son Romolo rebuilt their iconic shack in the 1970s after it was damaged from a turbulent rainstorm. Del Deo's style and approach to painting landscapes resembles some of the work of Paul Cezanne, especially in the emphasis on horizontal and vertical gestures and the use of color as structure. Although he has some works of town life, Deo admits, “It doesn’t satisfy me. I had to come to the inner core of this crazy land, there’s an anatomy here to this landscape of long horizontals unlike other places.”

Kahn arrived in Provincetown at only nineteen years old to begin his training with Hans Hofmann and his studies in Abstract Expressionism. He painted this shack very early in his prolonged artistic career, only a year after coming to the Cape. The frenetic brushstrokes and impasto painting are undoubtedly characteristic of his studies in the Hofmann school. His style greatly transitioned in the late 50s, moving towards more monochromatic painting and landscape work. He stated that landscapes particularly interested him because of the expansiveness of the surface and the lack of edges and confinements.

Salvatore Fiumara is an American contemporary artist currently residing on Cape Cod. His works are characterized by abstract figuration and large expanses of colorful paint. His rendering of the Provincetown dunes is unlike any other works in this collection–His forms are fluid and the color palette is uniquely vibrant and warm. The large-scale canvas and use of gestural painting is representative of past Abstract Expressionist styles. It is possible this work is meant to convey elements of emotional expression, rather than a clear representation of the dunescape.

Robert B. Rogers is a painter, writer, engraver, lithographer, and illustrator that worked in Provincetown. The use of linocut printing to depict the unique structure of the sand dunes is compelling—Especially in the straight horizontal lines converging with the tall, curved sand dune, almost resembling a colossal wave, rising, waiting to crash onto the surface. These large mounds form when wind deposits sand on top of each other, though when the mounds accumulate size, they can collapse under their own weight.

Joyce Zavorskas is a contemporary artist that has exhibited in London, Paris, New York, Philadelphia, California, Boston, and Cape Cod. Many of her recent works focus on erosional landforms, investigating images of natural disorder and nature’s disruption of familiar landscapes. These works from 1989 during her time in the Peaked Hill dune shack are more homogenous, though reveal the rustic architecture of the shack itself. They are weathered structures that are often built on pilings to adjust to the constantly changing environment.

Marian Roth is a photographer and painter who moved to Provincetown in 1982. She is known for her camera obscura photography and unconventional methods of capturing pictures. In her camera obscura series taken at the dune shacks, Roth converted the dune shack into a pinhole camera. This method of photography strips the camera back to its most basic components and limits the artist’s control. It also illuminates the perspective of light from the shack itself, which relates to Roth’s idea of inhabiting the camera and image.

Born and raised in Manhattan, Marcia Marcus was a prominent artist in the postwar New York art scene. She came to Provincetown in 1952 and returned every summer, both living and working in the C-Scape dune shack. She was mostly known for her contemporary style portraiture, though she also loved to capture the natural beauty and light of the Outer Cape landscape. This piece captures a still of Pilgrim Lake, a tidal lagoon hidden in the dunes, isolated from the ocean. The cool toned color palette and absence of texture in the water and pale sand emphasize the tranquility of the moment and quietude of the surroundings.

Ross Moffett was originally born in Iowa and arrived in Provincetown to study with Charles Hawthorne. He became a legendary artist that illustrated scenes of local life and a significant figure in the development of American Modernism. He was known for his landscape paintings, various forms of prints, and social realism themed murals. Both his monotype print and oil painting in this collection feature figures standing in the dunes, embodying a contemplative state.

Joel Meyerowitz began his artistic career in photography by taking pictures in the streets of his native New York City. He is an early advocate for the use of color in photography, and is one of the first photographers to make the transition successfully from black and white. He has produced several books of his photography, multiple focusing on scenes of Cape Cod. Many of his pictures from the Cape highlight stills of natural light and have a high clarity of detail. This piece encapsulates the extended openness of the dunes, the sky intersecting with the textured sand in a way that embodies a sense of stillness and invites contemplation.

Chaffee initially arrived in Provincetown in 1904 to join Charles Hawthorne’s Cape Cod School of Art. He bought a house and lived there year around, formed connections with dozens of artists and helped form the Provincetown Art Association in 1914. Many modern artists in the Provincetown art colony regarded him as a mentor. His work has been attributed to various artistic influences, especially Paul Cezanne and Henri Matisse.

Joan Cobb Marsh was an American artist that specialized in oil painting. She studied with Henry Hensche, another artist that worked and taught in Provincetown after training with Charles Hawthorne. Hensche was known for his mastery of color observation and sensitivity, a skill that Marsh had clearly adopted into her work. Her work made in Provincetown reflects her investigation of emotional memory connected to certain places. Her careful brushwork and use of shadows and highlights emphasizes a sense of peaceful quiet amongst the interior of the dune shack.

Byron Browne was a well known abstract painter who helped found the American Abstract Artists in 1936, a group of artists in New York City that aimed to foster a public understanding of abstract art. He famously, however, rejected non-objective art, and believed in the primacy of nature. He argued that all shapes, forms, colors, and combinations exist in nature itself. This is visible in his abstract scene of the sunset in the dunes, a piece with diverse textural variation and a stylized color palette.

Angele Myrer was an American artist who lived and worked in Massachusetts. She made many white-line woodblock prints, a technique pioneered by a group of female artists working in Provincetown in the early 20th century, known as the Provincetown Printers. Her woodblock print of the dunes is composed of transparent colorful hues, producing a watercolor-like effect. Her other composition of the dunescape is much more geometric and chromatic, with an emphasis on darker tones and rigid lines. Although the abstracted color palette and the indiscernible structure on the right may paint a less recognizable image, the inclusion of the three seagulls recalls the nature of the seascape.

Lucy L’Engle is an American painter born and raised in New York City. She later attended the Arts Student League in Proxavincetown with Charles Hawthorne and Academie Julian in Paris with Albert Gleizes. Her style was most associated with Cubism after her time working in Europe. Later in her artistic career, L’Engle adopted a more individualistic style that implemented elements of abstraction, but focused on figures and landscapes. Her gloomy rendition of the Truro dunes is unlike any others in the collection, evoking a sense of melancholic eeriness of the Cape during the winter months.

William Harry Warry Bicknell (W.H.W.) was a famed artist that has exhibited in various public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian. A native of Boston, Bicknell permanently moved to Winchester but kept a studio in Provincetown. Though he had some works of portraiture, he was most well known for his etching. His two pieces in this collection exhibit his mastery of fine line detail and texture, utilized to illuminate the concentration of light and dark.

Ross Moffett was originally born in Iowa and arrived in Provincetown to study with Charles Hawthorne. He became a legendary artist that illustrated scenes of local life and a significant figure in the development of American Modernism. He was known for his landscape paintings, various forms of prints, and social realism themed murals. Both his monotype print and oil painting in this collection feature figures standing in the dunes, embodying a contemplative state.

Ranalli is a contemporary artist that grew up in Connecticut and currently resides in Cambridge and Wellfleet, MA and Tucson, AZ. He creates conceptual and environmental works that are situated in the medium of photography. This photograph is from his Zen Dune series; a collection of works inspired from his travels in Asia during the 1990s. Ranalli found inspiration in the deep sense of spirituality and the various manifestations of the Buddha. During his stay in a dune shack, he photographed large spiral designs that he traced in the sand, configurations he referred to as Zen Gardens. He found fascination with the idea of temporary art that would be erased within days by the wind and water of the coastal landscape.