Opening Reception: Mary Crocker Fassett

Boston native and Cape Cod transplant Mary Crocker Fassett (1915 - 2016) was a self-taught artist who worked in various mediums. Drawings in charcoal and ink; paintings in oil, egg tempera, and pastel; intaglio engraving and etchings; ceramics; and sculptural materials for some 80 years. Much of her art was created in her home studio in Truro MA, where she lived from 1980 until her death.

Her work, Ms. Fassett said in the early 2000s, was inspired by the great Renaissance painters and includes scores of portraits (her first self-portrait was made at 12 years old) and macabre scenes reminiscent of Bosch and Bruegel. She was inspired by the landscape of Switzerland, France, Truro, and other places she lived.

As Ms. Fassett grew older, she painted from her imagination, often translating what she felt from music and novels into visual art.

The daughter of portrait painter Truman Edmund Fassett (1885 -1970), she studied at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and married three times. Ms. Fassett’s work has been shown locally at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Castle Hill Center for the Arts, the Schoolhouse Gallery, among other places.