The Permanent Collection at Provincetown Art Association and Museum.

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).

No Familiar Hand Tempered the Austerity of His Self-made...

Description

With his arms folded across his bent knees, a nude male sits upon a bare mattress on the floor. With anguish in his gaze, the man stares downward. "No Familiar Hand Tempered the Austerity of His Self-made Brooklyn Cell" presents the isolation of vanishing from society. In search of freedom, one succumbs to feelings of otherness. In creating his own environment, the subject took control. However, this sense of stability brought on by control comes at a price. Solitude. When unable to handle social pressures, instead of utilizing a mask and hiding within society, they chose to hide from it. This begs the question, how can one escape without isolating oneself? By finding community, that paradox resolves itself. The rules and standards that drove individuals to hide behind masks and closed doors vanish.

Artist Information

Khristine Hopkins

Entry/Object ID

823.Ph86

Artwork Details

Date made: 1985

Medium: Hand colored silver print photograph

Dimensions (h x w): 18-1/4 in x 14-1/4 in

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type: Signature

Location: LR

Type: Title

Location: LL

Acquisition

Accession: 823

Credit Line: Gift of the artist

Exhibitions

Crosscurrents: An Exchange Between Guild Hall Museum and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 1986

The Collection's Living Artists

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