An influential abstract expressionist and a pioneer in the Color Field movement, Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) spent several summers painting in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She first came in 1950 to the seaside town with a long history as an artist colony to study at Hans Hofmann’s studio school and would return for more than a decade while married to the artist Robert Motherwell. This finely illustrated publication explores the works from this formative time in Frankenthaler’s career, while also examining the artist’s innovative methods and process. Drawing inspiration from the natural scenery of Provincetown, Frankenthaler created paintings that reverberate with a suggestiveness of place that goes beyond the idea of landscape to capture the atmosphere and climate of the New England locale. This illuminating look into Frankenthaler’s development as an artist reveals how one particular location helped shape an abstract painter whose works never fit neatly within any category of subsequent abstraction.

Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown

Arts & Photography

SMITH, ELIZABETH

Motherwell, Lise

History & Criticism

Provincetown Art Association and Museum

On equal ground: Photographs from an artists' community at the tip of Cape Cod

Holt, Norma

Contains 25 color images by the artist, together with essays by various contributors.

George McNeil: Bathers, Dancers, Abstracts: A Themed Retrospective

Helen McNeil

Graham Ashton

SEARCH FOR THE REAL: Drawings by Hans Hofmann and His Students

Hans Hofmann

Coughlin, Maura

An exhibition catalog from the 2012 PAAM exhibition.

ROBERT MOTHERWELL: Beside the Sea

[Robert Motherwell]

Lise Motherwell

Catalog of an exhibition held in Provincetown by the Provincetown Art Association and Museum July 19-September 2, 2013. Includes essays by Adam Zucker, Charles Giuliano and Stephanie DeTroy. This exhibition represents a missing link in American modernism by presenting an alternative history to the celebrated New York School and it's Abstract Expressionist and Color Field painters. In the fifties a new wave of painters invigorated Cape Cod's artistic community and challenged the abstract authority, using the figure as the key structural element in their compositions. As a group at large these seminal Figurative Expressionists include Lester Johnson, Jan Mulle, Bob Thompson, Tony Vevers, Red Grooms, Robert Beauchamp, Bill Barrell , Robert De Niro Sr., George McNeil, Peter Passuntino, Gandy Brody, Mimi Gross, Yvonne Anderson, Jay Milder, Bob Henry, Salina Trieff, Wolf Kahn, and Emilio Cruz.

Pioneers From Provincetown: The Roots of Figurative Expressionism

Zucker, Adam et al

Catalog of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum's Permanent Collection as of 2014.

A CENTURY OF INSPIRATION: Provincetown Art Association and Museum

COLOR BEYOND DESCRIPTION: The Watercolors of Charles Hawthorne, Hans Hofmann, and Paul Resika

Dutoit, Rob & Donald Beal

Charles Hawthorne

Paul Resika

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