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This exhibition, highlighting the rich cultural heritage of Provincetown, is directly associated with Deborah Forman鈥檚 new book, Perspectives on the Provincetown Art Colony. Last year the National Trust for Historic Preservation designated Provincetown 鈥渉ome of the nation鈥檚 oldest art colony鈥� and Forman鈥檚 book, largely based on her interviews with artists and writers, traces that history. When Charles Hawthorne opened his Cape Cod School of Art in 1899, he turned the little fishing village into an artistic treasure.
   
Forman鈥檚 book explores 20th-century art as it played out in Provincetown. A microcosm of American art during that century, the town hosted a diversity of styles, including traditional art, impressionism, early modernism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and beyond. The exhibition features works included among more than 300 images in the book; artists represented in the exhibit include: Robert Motherwell, Jack Tworkov, Hans Hofmann, Red Grooms, Michael Mazur, Chaim Gross, Paul Resika, Anne Packard and dozens more.
   
Deborah Forman covered the artist colony in Provincetown for 30 years, interviewing dozens of artists and writers for articles for the Cape Cod Times, Cape Cod View magazine, Art New England and Boston Magazine. These interviews are at the core of her book. Among the numerous artists she interviewed are Robert Motherwell, Jack Tworkov, Red Grooms, Raphael Soyer, Chaim Gross, Myron Stout, Fritz Bultman, Paul Resika, Arnold Newman, Joel Meyerowitz, Sidney Simon, John Grillo, Leo Manso, Michael Mazur, Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Bowen, Jim Peters, Varujan Boghosian, Sal Del Deo, Tony Vevers, Anne Packard, Selina Trieff, and Robert Henry.
   
Forman was the features editor of the Cape Cod Times and editor-in-chief of Cape Cod View magazine. She wrote the script, conducted the interviews, and worked on filming for Art In Its Soul, an award-winning documentary of the history of the Provincetown art colony, which aired on Boston鈥檚 public television station, WGBH, and subsequently on public television stations nationwide. She has a degree in journalism from Temple University, and has studied art at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at Philadelphia Museum School of Art.