Collection

The Permanent Collection

Our permanent collection includes more than 5,350 works, capturing over a century of artistic vitality in Provincetown and on the Outer Cape.

This database offers a window into that rich legacy and our ongoing efforts to showcase contemporary artists working here. More than 2,700 pieces in our collection lack digital images. Our efforts to digitize the rest of our collection are ongoing; to contribute to this critical project to digitize the PAAM collection, please contact James Robertson, Chief Development Officer, by email at jrobertson@paam.org or visit: paam.org/donate/

COLLECTION IN THE COMMUNITY

PAAM regularly loans work from its permanent collection to community organizations and businesses, expanding public access to and appreciation of these important works of art. Works from the collection can currently be seen at Seamen’s Bank (Provincetown, Truro, and Wellfleet locations), Seashore Point in Provincetown, La Tanzi, Spaulding & Landreth LLP offices in Provincetown and Orleans, and David Marshall Datz, PC office in Provincetown and Orleans. To discuss arranging an artwork loan for your business or organization, please contact PAAM Registrar Madeleine Larson (mlarson@paam.org).

Dune Shack (photo of Joyce Johnson, Ray Wells' shack)

Art

Portrait of old woman in front of dune shack with blue sky background

Description

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.

Artist Information

Ray Elman

Entry/Object ID

2120.MM12

Artwork Details

Date made: 2012

Medium: Oil, polymer, digital print collage on canvas

Dimensions (h x w): 40 in x 60 in

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type: Signature, Title

Location: Reverse

Acquisition

Accession: 2120

Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 2012

Exhibitions

Recent Gifts to the PAAM Collection Part I (2012)