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Provincetown :: Friday, November 21st 2008
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The interior of Charles W. Hawthorne's studio.
Where the Art was Made
A New Exhibit Remembers Artists' Studios
By Kahrin Deines
July 6th, 2008
For more than a century, artists have flocked to the Outer Cape. Some say there’s a special quality to the light, while others point to the area’s isolation or its beauty. In any case, ever since Charles W. Hawthorne opened his painting school in Provincetown in 1899, artists have sought to spend time at Cape’s end.
| ''The Studio Show'' includes paintings, photographs and models of artists' studios in Provincetown. |
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Usually these artists are remembered by the works they have created, but a new art exhibit in Provincetown is bringing to view another cultural contribution they have left in their wake.
The exhibit, titled “The Studio Show,” looks at the very places where artworks have been created, using a combination of paintings, photographs, models and other artifacts to draw attention to their historical importance.
|  Blanche Lazzell's print ''Studio.'' |
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After Hawthorne, the painters Hans Hofmann and Henry Hensche both opened schools in Provincetown, spurring more artists to travel to the area. Later, the opening of the Fine Arts Work Center, which offers annual fellowships to writers and visual artists, continued the trend. And today, there are still many active studios.
Some, however, have disappeared over the years, and the Hawthorne school, housed in an old barn, has been on the real estate market for some time.
The exhibit, which is being shown at three separate Provincetown locations, draws attention to the cultural value of these structures by showcasing the role they played in important artists’ lives and work.
The artists and studios featured include Gerrit Beneker, Edwin Dickinson, Mary Hackett, Charles W. Hawthorne, Peter Hunt, Blanche Lazzell and Robert Motherwell.
In addition to the new emphasis on studios, the exhibit also represents a first in collaboration between Provincetown’s three main cultural institutions. It has brought together the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Fine Arts Work Center, and the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum, each of which are displaying artworks and other objects that deal with the role artists’ studios have played in the town’s history.
The exhibit will be open until August 3. To find out more about “The Studio Show,” visit the Web sites of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Fine Arts Work Center or the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum.
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