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TownOnline.com | By Rebecca M. Alvin
Salvatore Del Deo is not willing to lay it all out on the table when I ask him about the content of his upcoming talk entitled “My Life in Provincetown as an Artist, 1946-2006” this Wednesday at the Payomet Performing Art Center’s tent at the Highlands Center in North Truro.
He is willing to say a lot has changed in the 60 years since he arrived there to study with Henry Hensche in the Cape Cod School of Art.
“(Provincetown) was a place you could nourish your young talent,…
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TownOnline.com | By Steve Desroches
Do you know the way to NOCO?
Probably not, as it isn’t on any maps just yet. But the new name for an old arts district has Provincetown abuzz.
NOCO, or North of Commercial, is the idea of artist Rick Fleury, whose gallery at 268 Bradford Street sits in the heart of the newly defined arts district. While walking his dog Graham last January, Fleury’s thoughts turned to summer and how to get more visitors to his gallery, which is in the old studio of legendary Provincetown artists Ross Moffet.…
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By Cate McQuaid | Boston Globe
Provincetown’s tiny East End is like Newbury Street in overdrive. The art season is at its height here, where the galleries stay open seven days a week and shows often turn over every two weeks.
DNA Gallery is back up to speed, after hitting a bump last year as director Nick Lawrence focused on his New York gallery and several artists left to open their own space. The strong group show there now ranges from abstract digital photography to lush landscape painting.
Vermont painter Eric Aho’s spectacular large-scale landscapes…
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This is an important and beautiful figurative expressionist painting by the New York and Provincetown artist Lester F. Johnson. It is a gouache/watercolor on paper, 18 ¾” x 23 1/4” (image), and 24”x30"(framed). It is signed Lester Johnson lower right and dated 8/1958. The picture is in fine condition and is archivally framed. It shows the usual and expected slight rippling of the watercolor medium, and what I think is the intentional drippings of the gouache paint in a manner similar to many of the abstract expressionists also painting in Provincetiown at that…
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Tod Lindemuth (1885-1956), The Runway (Provincetown), color woodcut, 1917, signed in pencil lower right, titled and numbered (67/100) lower left. On medium weight Japan paper, in very good condition, with margins (slight evidence of yellowing here and there, the slightest marginal light staining), the full sheet with deckle edges, 14 3/8 x 11 1/8, the sheet 18 x 15 1/2 inches, archival mounting with window mat.
A fine, carefully printed impression of this important American early modernist woodcut.
Although the print is annotated with a number, we believe this is probably not evidence of the size of…
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