Perspectives on the Provincetown Art Colony with Deborah Forman / 5 Tuesdays from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Perspective on the Provincetown Art Colony - a series of 5 Art History Classes with Deborah Forman on Zoom  

5 Tuesdays,  April 27 - May 25, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm (1.5 hours)

$75 members / $85 non-members / $60 CCMoA Docents 

The course on the history of the Provincetown art colony will begin with the launching of the colony when Charles Hawthorne opened his school in 1899. It will trace the early conflicts between the traditionalists and modernists, the impact of the Hans Hofmann School, and the golden years of the late ‘40s,‘50s, and ‘60s when the Abstract Expressionists were in town and New York galleries had satellite locations in Provincetown. When the art colony began to languish in the late ‘60s, the effort to revitalize it with the founding of the Fine Arts Work Center, the activities at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the impact…