ARTISTS
Recent Gifts To The Permanent Collection: Part II
This gallery is the second installment of recent gifts to PAAM鈥檚 permanent collection in 2023. This exhibition focuses not on one collector or artist in particular, but highlights some of the greatest strengths of the museum鈥檚 growing collection: range, historic impact, and embodiment of Provincetown鈥檚 art community.
Some pieces speak to Provincetown directly through their visual language, such as Herman Dudley Murphy鈥檚 Fire on the Beach, Cape Cod, which captures the intimate glow of a beach gathering, or Mark Adams鈥� Blue Swimmers in Eelgrass, a dreamlike vista of bodies in sea-space. Patrick Webb鈥檚 Harbor Romance depicts a scene that a Provincetown resident or visitor is likely familiar with: a sole figure staring out into Cape Cod Bay in a moment of relaxation, wistfulness, or contemplation.
Other works are less connected to recognizable Provincetown and Cape Cod imagery, but rather represent salient art historical moments in the area throughout the 20th century. The work of Jim Forsberg and Bob Henry expands the legacy of Hans Hofmann, who opened his art schools in New York in 1934 and Provincetown in 1935, focusing especially on the avant-garde styles of the mid-century. Ed Giobbi studied the color-logic Impressionism of Charles Hawthorne and, later, Henry Hensche in Provincetown. The jewelry on display is indicative of the metalwork styles influenced by New York Abstract Expressionism and post-Bauhaus trends in the 1940s onward.
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This gallery is the second installment of recent gifts to PAAM鈥檚 permanent collection in 2023. This exhibition focuses not on one collector or artist in particular, but highlights some of the greatest strengths of the museum鈥檚 growing collection: range, historic impact, and embodiment of Provincetown鈥檚 art community.
Some pieces speak to Provincetown directly through their visual language, such as Herman Dudley Murphy鈥檚 Fire on the Beach, Cape Cod, which captures the intimate glow of a beach gathering, or Mark Adams鈥� Blue Swimmers in Eelgrass, a dreamlike vista of bodies in sea-space. Patrick Webb鈥檚 Harbor Romance depicts a scene that a Provincetown resident or visitor is likely familiar with: a sole figure staring out into Cape Cod Bay in a moment of relaxation, wistfulness, or contemplation.
Other works are less connected to recognizable Provincetown and Cape Cod imagery, but rather represent salient art historical moments in the area throughout the 20th century. The work of Jim Forsberg and Bob Henry expands the legacy of Hans Hofmann, who opened his art schools in New York in 1934 and Provincetown in 1935, focusing especially on the avant-garde styles of the mid-century. Ed Giobbi studied the color-logic Impressionism of Charles Hawthorne and, later, Henry Hensche in Provincetown. The jewelry on display is indicative of the metalwork styles influenced by New York Abstract Expressionism and post-Bauhaus trends in the 1940s onward.
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