Portrait of an Artist: Richard Pepitone - Retrospective Lecture with Curator Bill Evaul

The Cape Cod Museum of Art presents:

Portrait of an Artist: Richard Pepitone - Lecture with Curator Bill Evaul

Friday, May 3, 2:00 – 3:00 pm.

Member $12 / Non-Member $20 (non-member ticket includes Museum admission)

Join Bill Evaul for this informative lecture. Richard Pepitone (1936-2022) overcame an exceptionally difficult childhood growing up in Brooklyn* to become one of Provincetown’s most prominent, versatile and collected artists. It is impossible to pigeonhole his artwork - Pepitone was a sculptor, a printmaker, painter, ceramicist and so much more.

Evaul explains, “Richard poured all of this resilience into making art. He rejoiced in discovery and experimentation. He would attack each new medium or method with the seriousness and focus of a laboratory scientist, noting what worked and what didn’t and always gleaning the best results. His fascination for art never waned. He excelled in whatever he tried, or maybe he somehow knew what…