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).

Truro, in Winter

Art

Gloomy winter scene with winding road, dunes, and house in the distance

Description

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.

Artist Information

Lucy L'Engle

Entry/Object ID

630.Pa83

Artwork Details

Date made: 1933

Medium: Oil on board

Dimensions (h x w): 21 in x 17 in

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type: Signature, Date

Location: LL

Type: Label

Location: Reverse

Type: Label

Location: Reverse

Type: Label

Location: Reverse

Type: Inscription

Location: Reverse

Acquisition

Accession: 630

Credit Line: Gift of Bryan Oliphant, 1983

Exhibitions

PAAM Trustees Select from the Collection (2001-2002)

The Artist's Eye: Polly Burnell Selects from the Collection

Yankee Mystique

The Tenth Grade Selects from the Collection (2000)

The Poet's Eye: Keith Althaus Selects from the Collection

The Art Colony's First Century Part One: 1900-1933

The Artist's Eye: Bob Bailey Selects from the Collection (1998)

Lucy and William L'Engle

The 2nd and 3rd Grades Select from the Collection (2001)