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Current Exhibitions

ON COMMON GROUND: Still Life from the Collection
January 30 - April 25
Gallery Talk by CCMA Curator Michael Giaquinto: Thursday, February 11, 1 pm
    CCMA Michael Giaquinto has selected a variety of still life paintings from the museum's permanent collection. For these paintings, an artist orchestrates or composes the subject matter and arranges objects of different sizes, textures and color against each other to form a single composition. Artists included are Robert Douglas Hunter, Marion Hawthorne, Thomas T. Eastwood, Hilda Neilly, Frank Milbry, Howard Gibbs, Barbara Rockfeller and Henry Hensche, among others.
   As an interactive addition to this exhibition, a small table will be set up with a variety of onjects for the visitor to select and compose a still life composition. This allows one to consider the decisions an artist must make in arranging interesting still life compositions.
   Throughout the exhibition, different regional artists will be painting a still life in the gallery so that visitors may watch the process of creating a successful still life arrangement.
Image: "Sunflowers #4" by Reed Champion

RECENT GIFTS & ACQUISITIONS
January 23 - March 21
Gallery Talk by CCMA Curator Michael Giaquinto: Thursday, February 4, 1 pm
The works in this exhibition are a sampling of gifts and acquisitions received during 2009. Included are paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Some of the artists represented are Denny Camino, Gladys Winn Dorfman, Robert Beauchamp, Varujian Boghosian, Richard de Quattro, Arthur Diehl, Femo Faruggio, R.H. Ives Gammell, Charles Hawthorne and Peter Hunt.

Image: Painting/collage by Gladys Winn Dorfman

CREATIVE CONVERGENCE: Renowned Painters Showing on Cape Cod
A collaboration between Cape Cod Museum of Art and Addison Art Gallery
Cape Cod Museum of Art exhibition dates: January 12 - February 28
Reception: Friday, February 12, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Gallery Talk: Friday, February 12, 1 pm
Addison Art Gallery exhibition dates: January 9 - March 31
Reception: Saturday, February 13, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
    In the fall of 2009, award-winning painters, with roots and homes from across the United States, Mexico, Ireland, Bulgaria and Russia, met in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Inspired by its thriving art colony, historic town, as well as its magnificent surrounds, and each other, these artists created a wonderful diversity of plein air works in their individual styles. All established artists, they are bringing their completed works together for exclusive shows on Cape Cod, another area widely known for its natural beauty, history and for nurturing the arts.
    Participating artists included Jeff Bonasia, Scott Burdick, Daniel Corey, Frank Gardner, Jerome Greene, Logan Hagege, Marc Hanson, Ignat Ignatov, Peter Kalill, Jeremy Lipking, Kevin McNamara, Ernesto Nemesio, Colin Page, Paul Schulenburg and Alexey Steele.

    Impressionist landscape painters are drawn to the beauty of light falling across the landscape. Their avowed intent is to capture that impression in the two dimensional plane of the canvas. We live at a time when this art of seeing and recording the look of nature is widely practiced and has been brought to an extraordinarily high level of excellence. Since the 19th century, Cape Cod had been a center for plein air painting because of the special quality of its light and the sculptural aspects of its landscape. It is a rare treat to be able to see the work of an internationally trained group of impressionist painters focused on one of the other amazing regions of the world. We will see the reality of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, presented through the filter of the artist's eye - some things familiar and some things arrestingly novel - and thus be able to vicariously experience the place. CCMA is fortunate to be able to work with Addison Art Gallery in presenting this exhibition which represents a local painting tradition in a much larger context.
- Elizabeth Ives Hunter, Executive Director, CCMA

Once again, Addison Art Gallery has the privilege of presenting the work of internationally renowned painters to art lovers on Cape Cod. These accomplished artists have created inspired interpretations of subjects ranging from sun-soaked portraits and town vignettes to sweeping landscapes. Together in exhibition, these diverse incarnations offer the viewer an integrated sense of a magical place, its people and their lives.
- Helen Addison, Addison Art Gallery
Addison Art Gallery is located at 43 Route 28, Orleans. 508-255-6200 www.addisonart.com
Image: Ignat Ignatov, "Street Corner"

LEONARD BASKIN: Intaglio Prints
December 12 - February 21
    Leonard Baskin’s print series, Laus Pictorum, will be on exhibition at Cape Cod Museum of Art December 12, 2009 - January 21, 2010. These prints, from CCMA’s permanent collection, are a series of 15 portraits of 19th century artists Baskin created in honor of artists he considered his spiritual ancestors. Included are 10 original wood engravings and five original etchings, signed and numbered by the artist.
    Born in 1922 in New Jersey, Baskin was a sculptor, printmaker and book designer. During the 50’s era of modern experimentation with abstraction, Baskin’s subject was the human figure, “anxiety ridden man, imprisoned…” His inspiration often came from the Bible, Greek and Sumerian imagery. As the son of a rabbi, Jewish imagery was also an important element in his work.
    The Printmaker Instructor at the Worcester Art Museum in 1953, he went on to become a Professor of Drawing, Printmaking and Sculpture at Smith College.

RACHEL KAUFMAN: My Childhood Summers at Orchard Side Farm
November 7 - February 21, 2010
    Kids, bring your parents to see Rachel Ellis Kaufman’s My Childhood Summers at Orchard Side Farm. Filled with mystery and wonder, these pastel paintings offer a child’s view of Kaufman’s grandparents’ house in Sandwich, MA.
    When Cape Cod artist Kaufman realized she could visualize aspects of this house with remarkable clarity, she tried to distill the essence of her childhood experiences in these paintings, done entirely from memory.
    Orchard Side Farm was the home of my grandparents and many other forebears. I spent all of my childhood summers there. It was a house of mystery and beauty and spiritual adventure.
    - Kaufman

These paintings are part of the permanent collection of CCMA and are being exhibited with the poems the artist wrote to accompany them for her exhibition at the museum in 1993, seven years before her death at the age of 87.

FORMER EXHIBITIONS

Betsy Bennett Retrospective at Cape Cod Museum of Art
November 21, 2009 – January 17, 2010
Curator Talk with Michael Giaquinto: Sunday, January 3, 2 pm

    Betsy Bennett, Artist: A Cape Cod Treasure, a selection of Betsy Bennett’s works, will be on exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, November 21 – January 17. The paintings in this exhibit are done in egg tempera and watercolors. Bennett is well known for her mastery of the egg tempera technique.
    Bennett's training began at age 13 at the Philadelphia Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Art Association. After high school, she was awarded a four-year scholarship to Moore College of Art in Philadelphia. In 1955, she moved to Cape Cod where she and her husband, Sid, raised three children. She began teaching watercolor, oil painting, and drawing in 1958 at Chatham, Harwich, and Dennis-Yarmouth adult education programs, plus substituting as an art teacher in the elementary and high schools of those three school districts. She also taught at the Cape Cod Art Association and the Nauset Painters. In 1976, the Bennetts moved to the Oregon Coast where she continued to teach and exhibit. Returning to Cape Cod in 1993, she continued to paint in her studio in Harwich. She was on the Cape Cod Museum of Art’s Collections and Acquisitions Committee until a year prior to her death in 2007.

A. LESLIE ROSS: Magazine Illustrations
October 24 - January 3
     A. Leslie Ross’s works are very diverse. He was well known as a magazine illustrator, especially his action sports covers for Super Sport, All Sports and Popular Sports and his work for Boy’s Life magazine. He also worked with oil and watercolor painting. Ross will be remembered for his use of compelling composition, vivid color and understanding of movement. In 1971 he was awarded the Two Thousand Men of Achievement honor.
    Ross studied art at The New York School of Fine Art (Parsons) and Pratt Institute in New York City. His first studio was on East 63rd Street and from there he started his successful illustration career.
   During World War II he served as the Art Director of the US Training Aid Division and designed hand cut silk screen teaching aids for the U.S. Forces. At the close of the war he returned to Poughguag, NY, where he resumed his illustration work, combined in later years with university teaching at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
   As a young man, Ross spent summers on his aunt’s farm in Amenia, NY, working with horses, developing his drawing ability and the knowledge of horses that established his reputation, becoming best known for illustrations involving action and horse movement. He produced over 300 Western covers in oil, gouache and acrylic between 1947-1956, working for Famous Western, Pocket Books, Popular Library, Street and Smith and Pines Publications to name a few.

ART VISIONS: K-12 CAPE-WIDE STUDENTS' ART EXHIBITION
December 4 - January 17
    Student artists steal the spotlight during Art Visions, a Cape-wide student art exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. This annual exhibition features artwork created by Cape Cod students in grades K-12, opens Friday, December 4, 2009, through Sunday, January 17, 2010.
    The exhibition represents a large-scale collaboration between the CCMA and schools from Provincetown to Falmouth. For this show, teachers chose up to four pieces of artwork created by students. The artwork, matted, framed and prepared for hanging prior to installation at CCMA, is a comprehensive selection of drawings, paintings, prints, pottery and sculpture that traces the creative development of young artists from the region.
    Art Visions will hang in Hope McClennen Gallery, offering a unique comparison between the students' artwork and the work of regional artists exhibited in adjacent galleries.

BARBARA ROCKEFELLER: A RETROSPECTIVE
October 31 – December 6
Painter, photographer and teacher, Barbara Rockefeller attended Parsons School of Design and the Art Students League in New York, and received degrees in Art Education, Visual Arts and Museum Studies from NYU. She works in oils and watercolor, and has received numerous awards in juried shows.
Rockefeller has exhibited at Lincoln Center, the Rockland Center for the Arts in New York City, Fairleigh Dickinson University, the Ridgewood Art Institute in New Jersey, and the Creative Arts Center in Chatham. She is a past president of Salute to Women in the Arts, a creative non-profit organization in New Jersey dedicated to giving women artists an “arena for their ideas and a platform for their work.” Rockefeller is former registrar and trustee for Cape Cod Museum of Art.

DAYS LUMBERYARD STUDIOS 1915 - 1972
September 19 - November 15
Sponsored by Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust through JPMorgan Private Bank; Philanthropic Services
   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 20^th century. Two of that century’s 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’ 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.
Image: Hans Hofmann at Days Lumberyard studio

HEATHER BLUME: Adrift
September 19 - November 1
   Adrift, an art installation by Heather Blume, will be on exhibit at the Cape Cod Museum of Art September 19 - November 1. Blume has created a multimedia installation especially for the museum’s Ocean Edge Gallery.
    Blume graduated with an MFA cum laude in sculpture from the New York Academy of Art in 1994 and has been an avid artist and art educator since. She enjoys a rich and varied career; her figurative works are collected nationally and internationally. Most importantly, Blume lives, works and is inspired by the people and landscape of her native birthplace, Cape Cod.
From the artist's statement:
    In considering the opportunity to create an installation for “the red room” of the CCMA, I had an immediate idea of the type of artwork I would undertake. What came to mind was the pulse and flow of the sea and the memory of rhythm it leaves behind on the beach each day in the form of the tide line. A tide line is primarily composed of a drift of seaweed entanglements, marsh grass, and occasional egg cases each in its’ own way evidence of earth’s origins and sustenance. I decided to create the memory and feeling of the shoreline against the intense backdrop of the red walls.
    I have reached a new stage of my life and artistic career; although I am not old, I am older and do sense a difference in how I experience my being. As the horizon of life approaches I find I have a deeper appreciation for the surrender of the flowing dislodged and drifting sea forms; I feel an impassioned surrender to being a small part of a greater whole.
                    - Heather Blume
     “We want eternal oceans. But we are perishable;
             Friends, we are salty impermanent kingdoms”
                     - Robert Bly

ROGER COOK: Language of Dimension
September 12 - October 25
    Roger Cook, an internationally known graphic designer, photographer and artist lives in Washington Crossing, PA. He has been the President of Cook and Shanosky Associates, Inc., a graphic design firm he founded in NYC in 1967. The firm produced all forms of corporate communications including: Corporate Identity, Advertising, Signage, Annual Reports and Brochures.
    His graphic design and photography have been used by IBM, Container Corporation of America, Montgomery Ward, Squibb Corporation, Black & Decker, Volvo, Subaru, AT&T, New York Times, Bell Atlantic, BASF, Lenox, and many other major international corporations.
    For "Symbols Signs" their 52 transportation-related symbols designed for DOT (the US Department of Transportation), he received the Presidential Award for Design Excellence from President Reagan and Elizabeth Dole on January 30,1984 in the Indian Treaty Room of the Old Executive Office Building in Washington, DC.
    Roger Cook's statement about this exhibition:
    In 1999, after 46 years as a graphic designer, I found time to explore this new medium, sculptural "assemblage". The inspiration and opportunity to explore this mode of artistic expression comes at a time when my commercial career has sufficiently matured so that I can apply my skills, experiences, and a lifetime of artistic perspective to create "statements" with these assemblages.
    Most of my "raw" materials come from private collections, my own photography, flea markets, and antique shops, where I spend hours searching for items that inspire use in my art. My process, using these "found" materials, feels to me much like theater. As in the legitimate stage, I work within a three-dimensional form to portray the comedy or tragedy of life. (See “Odyssey” art) I create these miniature, silent, "theaters" to express my feelings about a range of subjects. The three-dimensional objects I construct, using the found and fabricated objects (my "Thespians"), are a series of "performances" that share my feelings with my audience.
Image: "Times 4" by Roger Cook

NICK PATTEN: Interiors
July 18 - August 23, 2009
Gallery Talk: July 18, 2 pm
    “Settling on a composition for one of my room interior paintings is a progressive process. I pick and choose the most interesting and necessary elements from an array of photographs, often adding items from my imagination. Light and dark is a primary focus of my painting with particular attention to brushstroke and gradation in the darkest areas. Though working from photographs with the aim of creating believable paintings, I strive to bring a quiet drama to everyday scenes. My paintings are never too photographic. In part, I aim to paint so that the content of the image is most compelling and how the painting was made is secondary.”        - Nick Patten
    A recent article described Patten as “a master at creating spaces that speak not through people or movement, but through shadows, light and reflections.” He has won numerous prizes in nationally juried shows. The most important honor awarded him to date is winning the Gold Medal of Honor in the oil painting category at the juried Allied Artists of America in New York City in 1999.
   For more information, click here for Nick Patten's website.
Image: Remembering White Trees

PHILIP KOCH: Unbroken Thread: Nature Paintings and the American Imagination
June 20 - August 16, 2009
     According to Eva J. Allen, Ph.D, Philip Koch’s works constitute “a contemporary re-imagining of the romantic panoramas of the great 19th- century American landscape painters.” The works in this exhibition were created over the past seven years at various locations throughout New England as Koch followed in the footsteps of artists from the 19th century through the present. He considers himself very much a part of the “unbroken thread” that has evolved through the tradition of depicting New England in art for almost two hundred years.
    Philip Koch studied studio art and art history at Oberlin College in Ohio. In the Oberlin library, he found a monograph on Edward Hopper and developed an interest in drawing from life. He also discovered the school’s collection of the Dutch Old Masters paintings. Their works caused Koch to become restless with his “simple abstract paintings as they came to seem more clever than insightful. I (Koch) wanted something deeper and began scratching about another path.”
    In the summers of 1968 and 1969, Koch studied at the Art Students League where he became interested in 1930’s regionalism, especially the work of Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood and Charles Burchfield.
    The regionalists’ colorful expression of the Midwest landscapes prompted Koch to pursue his MFA in painting at Indiana University in Bloomington, where realism was still encouraged. This is where Koch “discovered the romance of 19th-century landscape painting.”
    In 1973, Koch began teaching at Maryland Institute College of Art, where he is now a full professor. Since 1983, he has spent twelve summers as the resident artist in Edward Hopper’s studio in Truro, MA.

RICHARD NEAL: Face to Face
June 6 - July 13, 2009
Reception: June 13, 5:30 - 8 pm
    All visual art, even realism, has an inherent abstract quality. Colored shapes enter the eye and are interpreted by the mind, which convinces us that we are seeing a landscape or a portrait. I am curious about that mysterious space between the eye and the mind, which can cause us to question reality. What is it that makes us feel so sure that we are looking at a face, when maybe it is all just in our imagination?
                                               - Richard Neal, 2009
    Richard Neal has had a long interest in piecing together imagery from the material that makes up the world around us. There is a physicality about the work that reflects the wounds created by pulling things apart and the healing process of piecing things back together. Painting and drawing are the activities that help the works transcend their often mundane material origin.
    He is a graduate of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and his work has been shown in museums and galleries in many places including Provincetown, Boston, New York City and Washington, DC. His work is included in private collections in the United States, Canada and Germany.
Image: "Premonition"

PASTEL PAINTERS SOCIETY OF CAPE COD: Signature 2009
April 18 - June 14, 2009
   The high standards of its Signature Membership affirm the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod’s nationwide prestige. The honor of Signature Membership is awarded to working artists of consistent excellence, who may then may write PPSCC after their name and may submit to the prestigious Biennial Signature Exhibitions. Signature Members of the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod serve the community through offering high caliber art exhibits for viewers of all ages.
    PPSCC was founded in 1995 by a handful of local pastelists for the purpose of establishing viable soft pastel exhibition venues while fostering public understanding and appreciation of the pastel medium. Just a few years later, the non-profit organization's membership spanned the nation.
    The following artists are included in this exhibition: Edith Cohenno Bryant, Carolyn Caldwell, Robina Carter, Ed Chesnovitch, Shizue Cooper, Diana DeSantis, Kimberly Ann duCharme, Carole Chisholm Garvey, Liz Haywood-Sullivan, Anne Heywood, Susan A. Hollis, Joan Ledwith, Marge Levine, Jane Lincoln, Pat Ross Marx, Ann M. Murphy, Rosalie Nadeau, Mona Podgurski, Debra Quinn-Munson, Susan Ransom, Donna Rossetti-Bailey, M'Lou Sorrin, Phill Thompson, Lorraine W. Trenholm, Penny Viscusi, Margaret Williams-McGowan.
Image: "Jessica" by Diana DeSantis
Join the Pastel Painters for an Opening Reception, Friday, April 17, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

JENNIFER DAY: Air & Ocean: New Paintings
April 25 - June 7, 2009
Gallery Talk: May 16, 2 pm
"This work explores the mystery of natural phenomena, it communicates a vastness of air, water and space that suggests something is going to happen, or has just happened." - Jennifer Day
Jennifer Day's large-scale monochromatic paintings of the sea have been exhibited throughout New England. A graduate of Bowdoin College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, she received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.

ROBERT CIPRIANI: 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'
May 1 - June 7, 2009
    Robert Cipriani is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and is both a professional artist and a noted graphic designer. His paintings are represented by many galleries and have received a number of awards, including the “Artist of the Year, Painting” designation from the Cambridge Art Association in a show juried by Edgar Driscoll, formerly the Boston Globe art critic for 30 years. In February of 2008 he was part of a three-person show of nationally known Expressionistic artists at the Phillips Gallery at Big Arts in Sanibel Florida.
    "Expressionism is the most natural form of painting for me as there are no boundaries to my imagination and curiosity, just a process of discovering and expressing new ways to look at life and at creativity. I usually do find what I’m looking for, then start searching all over again.
    "I typically know where I’m going with a painting, but often find that it starts to lead me, to draw me in other directions. I look for, and am always open to this, because new ideas often arise from just the process of starting to paint, and by being open, aware, and really curious. My multimedia paintings often incorporate collage, photography, type, acrylics, and modeling mediums - a great selection of tools.
    "In addition, I am very influenced by my life’s work as a graphic designer, art director, and creative director. Conversely, my approach to painting influences my design work in a way that makes it richer and more interesting. The two arts share many parallels: solutions that flow naturally from well-defined objectives; a need for passion, creativity, innovation, and exploration; the use of color for representation, emotion, and effect; and juxtaposition of large and small, strong and delicate, soft and sharp, dark and light, smooth and textured and the desire to be influenced and directed by the act of creativity itself.
    "When I paint, I'm spontaneous and precise at the same moment, always within the halo of a consistent vision."

ARTWORK: Interns' and Mentors' Exhibition
School to Careers Art Internship Program
May 9 - 31
Reception: Thursday, May 14, 5:30 - 7:30 pm.
The 12th annual ARTWORK exhibition, May 9 - 31, features painting, sculpture, textile design and other media produced by students during the course of their partnerships with renowned local artists. The School to Careers Art Internship Program pairs junior and senior high school students with successful working artists for eight weeks, working in a collaborative environment that promotes creative growth and offers insight into the lives and routines of professional artists.

See photos of the students on our Facebook page! Click here.

Image: "Granpa P" by Julia Powers, pastel drawing

Teaching Art / Creating Art: ART EDUCATORS JURIED SHOW
Jan 10 - Feb 22, 2009
Reception Jan 22, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Cape Cod & Islands Art Educators Association
    Sponsored by The Law Office of Singer and Singer, LLC.
Curated by Elizabeth Ives Hunter, Executive Director, and Michael Giaquinto, Exhibitions Curator
    A juried exhibition of art work by art teachers from all over Cape Cod and the Islands, featuring pottery, paintings, printmaking, pastels and more. Many of these artist/teachers also exhibit professionally in galleries across the Cape.

Image: "Little Deuce Coupe" by Deborah Greenwood

ARNOLD GEISSBUHLER: SCULPTOR (1897 - 1993)
Shaped by the 20th Century: Drawings & Sculptures from his Lifetime
November 8 - January 25, 2009
Curated by Al Kochka, Director of the Geissbuhler Project
Sponsored in part by a grant from the Jeremiah Kaplan Foundation of the UJA Federation, NY
     Born in Switzerland in 1897, Arnold Geissbuhler apprenticed with Zurich architectural sculptor Otto Munch before moving to Paris in 1919. He studied with sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, who had been a student of Rodin’s. At the Académie de la Grande Chaumière he became friends with many artists, including Alberto Giacometti, who became a lifelong friend. He also met a young student, Elisabeth Chase of Dennis, MA, who later became recognized as a Rodin scholar. They fell in love and married.
    The Geissbuhler’s travelled extensively. He exhibited in Paris, New York and Boston. The first showing of his work was at the Whitney Studio (later the Whitney Museum of American Art) and his first one-man show was held at the Kraushaar Gallery on Fifth Avenue, where drawings by Rodin were also on display.
    They resided in Provincetown from 1934 – 1937. Geissbuhler taught drawing and sculptural techniques at Wellesley College for 21 years from 1937 through 1958. He had a sculpture studio in Dennis where they set up residence in 1970.
     Geissbuhler brought with him to America the academic tradition of monumental, heroic sculpture. But he went beyond the traditions of realism and became more abstract, working with new materials such as ceramic.
      The selections in this show trace the artist’s evolving forms of expression influenced by the time in which he lived, the changing artistic movements around him, and how he responded to them.
        This exhibition highlights examples of his work: from his early academic years, his changing styles during the 1930s while at Wellesley and Provincetown, his work during the Great Depression and WW II, his own Atomazon series, his family themes and in his final years, his heroic-sized ceramic works.

ARCHITECTURE OF THE CAPE COD SUMMER
   Work of Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders
November 1 - January 4, 2009
    "Each house is a wish—a place of tranquility by the sea, where memories are made with families and friends…a particular version of the endless summer."
- Michael J. Crosbie, PhD, AIA; introduction to book, Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer

    This exhibition shows the design process and creations of the region’s top architecture and construction firm, Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders. It explores the compelling art – underpinned by the science of construction, influenced by the specific demands of the region and client, and executed by master craftsmen that make this firm so respected in their profession. The show includes a chronology of the firm’s major work – including its work on CCMA – and a close look at three houses.
    See the design process of a dazzling seaside home, “House on Champlain’s Bluff,” the inner spaces and architectural details that make “Pepperwood” a unique work of art, and learn how regulatory constraints were turned into positive influences for “Home On Harper’s Island.”
    The work comes alive through drawings, models, small architectural elements, and stunning color photographs taken by some of the nation’s top architectural photographers.
    The book, Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer, is available in conjunction with this show, with an introduction and text by Michael J. Crosbie, Ph.D., AIA.

SAM FEINSTEIN (1915 - 2003): A Retrospective
May 31 - July 27, 2008
Curated by Patricia Stark Feinstein
    This exhibition will reveal the seventy-year trajectory of Sam Feinstein’s development from realism through expressionism, cubist expressionism, Hofmann-influenced abstraction to Feinstein’s own unique language of color—vibrating and luminous — in his monumental, mature abstract paintings.
    Born in Russia and raised in Philadelphia, Feinstein taught and supervised classes at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and filmed the museum’s first art documentary. He later moved to New York and studied with Hans Hofmann, whom he filmed in 1950 to create his documentary, Hans Hofmann. Feinstein taught at Pratt Institute, wrote for Art Digest magazine and exhibited his paintings in New York, Philadelphia and Provincetown until he withdrew from the exhibition world in 1960 to dedicate himself to refining his principles and teaching for the remainder of his life. Feinstein spent his summers on Cape Cod, during the 1950s in Provincetown, and in 1960 moved to Whig Street in Dennis where he painted and taught for the next 42 years.
    Curator Patricia Stark Feinstein, a painter, teacher, curator, lecturer and former faculty member at Riverdale Country School in New York City, will expand upon the art and philosophy of her husband in related events during the show. She studied with Sam Feinstein and taught with him for eighteen years. She has written a book on her husband’s work that will be released by the award-winning Fields Publishing in conjunction with this exhibition.

FOUR PAINTERS: On Common Ground
June 7 - August 10, 2008
Curated by Paul Resika
Gallery Talk: Donald Beal on Thursday, July 17, 11 am
    To make something New, without tricks, requires talent, perseverance and a dedicated life. It also takes passion. I have known the work of Beal, DuToit, Paulson and Radell for 30 years. I believe they have these qualities.      Paul Resika
    Donald Beal, Robert DuToit, David Paulson and Thaddeus Radell have a 30 year history of friendship – at one time or another schooling together, living together, and studying with Paul Resika at Parsons School of Design in New York.
    Like Resika they all have a deep respect for the modernist principles of his teacher Hans Hofmann. They went their different ways: Beal and DuToit to the Outer Cape, Radell to France and New York, and Paulson to upstate New York, but they share an ongoing dialogue that continues to shape their work and lives. As Beal describes it, “Our work differs as our natures differ, but there is a like spirit and feeling that runs through all the work and unites us.”
    Donald Beal was born in Syracuse, New York and lived in Westford Massachusetts until graduating high school in 1977. He studied art at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he earned his BFA in painting in 1981. After moving to New York City to study at Brooklyn College, he went on to receive his MFA from Parsons School of Design. Provincetown, Massachusetts has been his home since 1985, where he is represented by the Berta Walker Gallery. Beal has been a professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth since 1999.
    Robert DuToit of North Truro was born in Boston in 1956 and began painting at the age of 10. He received a BFA from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA from Parsons School of Design in New York City and has studied for extended periods in France and Italy. An active Cape artist since the 1980s, he has been involved in numerous solo and group shows in Boston, New York and the Outer Cape, most recently at Maurice Arlos Fine Art Gallery in New York and the DNA Gallery in Provincetown. His recent work consists of elemental landscapes of various motifs as well as small direct figure compositions.
    David Paulson was born in Providence, R.I. in 1955. At 17 he began drawing with charcoal and watercolor. He attended Swain School Design in New Bedford and studied printing and drawing with David Loeffler Smith. In 1978 he attended Parsons School of Design MFA program, where he studied with Paul Resika. He took sculpture classes with Peter Agostini in 1980 at New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, where he also taught. He lived in Brooklyn until 1994 and spent some winters in Provincetown. He currently lives in Ghent, New York.
    Thaddeus Radell was born in 1956 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, the son of artists. In 1978, he received his BFA at Mercy College of the University of Detroit and his Master of Fine Art at Parsons School of Design in 1982. After graduating, he moved to France where for 14 years he divided his time between Paris and the South. He is currently living and working in New York City. He has had numerous solo shows in France and at the Marurice Arlos Fine Art Gallery in New York City.
    Curator: Paul Resika
    Born in New York City, Paul Resika studied with Hans Hofmann in New York and later in Provincetown. His work merges the emotions of abstract expressionism with his representational subjects, often of nature. He has received numerous awards and his work is included in many museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Museum of American Art.   Resika currently divides his time between New York and Provincetown.
Image: "Sunflower," pastel painting by Robert DuToit

AIDEN LASSELL RIPLEY (1896 - 1969): A Retrospective
Curated by Elizabeth Ives Hunter, CCMA Exec Director
August 2 – October 5, 2008
Gallery Talk with Elizabeth Ives Hunter: Oct 5 at 3 pm
    Aiden Lassell Ripley was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts and spent much of his life in the Boston area, often traveling to Cape Cod. The son of a musician, Ripley developed his talent as a tuba player and considered a career as a musician, but he soon discovered that painting was his true passion. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston and received the Page Traveling Scholarship which allowed him to travel and paint in Europe from 1923 to 1925.
    During the 1940s and 50s, Ripley became known as one of America’s pre-eminent painters of sporting scenes – hunters and game, fly-fishing on pristine rivers, and plantation life -- but his work extends well beyond this subject matter. The CCMA exhibition will focus on the totality of his work – portraits, still lifes, non-sporting landscapes and allegories. Ripley’s ability to maintain excellence of design and convincing emphasis and subordination marks his work as truly outstanding.
    According to CCMA Executive Director Elizabeth Ives Hunter, curator of the exhibition, “The full breadth of Ripley’s work is examined in the book THE ART OF AIDEN LASSELL RIPLEY by Julie Carlson Wildfeuer and Stephen B. O’Brien, Jr., published in conjunction with the show. Taken together, the exhibition and the book will facilitate a re-evaluation of Ripley’s reputation as an artist.”
    Ripley studied art at the Fenway School of Illustration and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with Philip Hale and Frank W. Benson. He was elected to the Guild of Boston Artists in 1925, an honor that signaled acceptance by the most important painters of the day. He served as president of the Guild from 1959 until his death in 1969. Ripley received fifty prizes during his lifetime.
    This exhibition is made possible in part by The Ellen and Richard Cuda Family Foundation of the Cape Cod Foundation.
    An essay on Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896 – 1969): A Retrospective by Elizabeth Ives Hunter which appeared in American Art Review Magazine is available on request.

SKIP TREGLIA’S FOUND OBJECTS: SPIRITS OF LAND AND SEA
July 26 – September 28, 2008
Gallery Talk: Thursday, August 7, 6 pm
    My work is a form of artistic recycling in which I’m connecting my sense of design with nature’s.      -Skip Treglia
   Skip Treglia creates whimsical figures from objects found in nature which emphasizes his strong belief in our connectedness to nature. This exhibition presents his very large sculptural assemblages of fish and shamans.
   Born in Boston in 1946, the artist grew up in a large family of Italian and British immigrants in Watertown, MA. As a child he would bicycle to his favorite fishing holes, bringing both a fishing rod and a sketchbook.
   Today he searches for found objects with unique character, such as aged, weathered, bleached, or twisted drifts of wood or metal polished by the elements. Some of his findings have spent a great deal of time in the ocean and so it seems to him natural to incorporate them and his love of fishing into his unusual fish figures.
    His whimsical shaman figures are influenced by his interest in Native American and Mayan Art and by his travels and workshops in Mexico and Guatemala.
    As part of this exhibition, Treglia is asking visitors to suggest a name for one of his unnamed shamans. A shaman is the spiritual leader of a tribe who offers guidance and healing through communication with animals and spirits of the earth. This particular shaman depicts birds on his outstretched arms made of driftwood. Treglia will announce the title he chooses the week of September 15th.
Treglia attended the New England School of Art and was awarded the Gold Medal in Illustration from the Copley Society of Boston in 1968. In addition to creating assemblages from natural materials, he has been a recognized abstract painter for over thirty years. He also founded Aurora Enterprises, a landscape design service. His works are widely exhibited and collected throughout New England.
Image: Song Catcher

STAINED GLASS WINDOW DOLL HOUSE
December 5 - February 21, 2010
Stained Glass Window House, a dolls’ house on loan from the collection of Polly and Fred Eaton, will be on exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art December 5, 2009 - February 21, 2010, with Rachel Ellis Kaufman’s pastel paintings of Orchard Side Farm.
Little is know about the Stained Glass Window House. But it was most likely built in America between 1880 and 1910 and was restored by a Massachusetts antique dealer in the 1970s. The architectural style is very much like that of the dolls’ houses attributed to Christian Hacker, who worked in Germany in the 1880s. Its mansard roof and built-in kitchen pieces are also found in Hacker-built houses. Another common feature is the hand-drawn geometric design on the papered floors and walls in the drawing room, kitchen and hallways which were actually modeled on details popular in family homes of the period. The house is furnished with German Boulle-styled pieces, formally called Biedermeier-style, showing stencil designs and marble tops on black painted wood. The gold ormolu chandeliers and lamps, typical of the period, are also from Germany. Everything used in a family’s home was replicated in miniature for the dolls’ house.