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Cape Cod Museum of Art will present Days Lumberyard Studios 1915-1972, September 5 - November 15. This is a comprehensive exhibition featuring artwork spanning almost 100 years by artists who once had studios at Days Lumberyard. A broad and eclectic mix of artwork in a variety of media by over 30 artists will be on view. This exhibition was previously on view at Acme Fine Art, Boston, MA.

The Days Lumberyard Studios in Provincetown, MA, ranks among the most important incubators for artists of the 20th century. Two of that century鈥檚 most influential teachers, Charles Webster Hawthorne and Hans Hofmann, along with many of their students, worked in these studios. Between 1915 and 1975, more than 100 artists had studios at the lumberyard and/or the adjacent Brewster Street Annex. Some of the most highly regarded American artists of the time maintained studios at Days for at least one season, including Edwin Dickinson, Ross Moffett, Vaclav Vytlacil, Mercedes Matter, Perle Fine, Myron Stout, Fritz Bultman, George McNeil, Robert De Niro, Sr., John Grillo, Peter Busa, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Ed Corbett, Lester Johnson, and Jan Muller, among numerous others.
    The works in the exhibition come from private collections, the estates of artists, from Acme Fine Art and other galleries. A handful of pieces are on loan from various museums鈥� permanent collections.
    Accounts differ with respect to the date that artists began using the studios at Days Lumberyard. Records indicate that Frank Days, Sr. acquired the 24 Pearl Street property in 1911. The first evidence of studios on the property as indicated in town tax records was 1916; however, several artists claim to have used the space as a studio as early as 1914.
    Over the years, the studio complex was expanded with the addition of the Brewster Street Annex. In 1951, the Days family sold the studio complex to Joe Oliver and Manuel Raymond. Oliver and Raymond immediately began much needed maintenance and renovations.
    About a decade later, in 1972, the Fine Arts Work Center acquired the Days Lumberyard property, and to this day many of the original studios continue to be used as living and work spaces by artists who have been awarded fellowships by the Work Center. The Fine Arts Work Center itself was founded in 1968 by a group of distinguished Provincetown writers and visual artists, a number of whom had studios in the original Days Lumberyard. They include Gil Franklin, Philip Malicoat, Fritz Bultman, and Robert Motherwell. The Fine Arts Work Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to continuing the same tradition and spirit of artistic creativity that was engendered by the artists of Days Lumberyard so many years ago.