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June 3 - July 31, 2016 - Every summer PAAM presents an exhibition of floral works from the Permanent Collection in conjunction with the Secret Garden Tour. This year’s exhibition also features limited edition prints created by youth artists who participated in the 2015 Youth Employment Program. The program combined creative projects with professional development and life skills training-including ...

May 6 - July 3, 2016 - Nancy Ellen Craig was a Truro painter with deep historical roots in Cape Cod. Known both locally and internationally for her monumental canvases, Craig’s subjects range from myths to religion to political statements. Beginning with her early work, one can see her professional and personal relationships with such artists as Frederic Taubes, Hans Hofmann, Jerry Farnsworth, Edw...

April 1 - June 12, 2016 - The year 1916 was significant for Provincetown artists, as it was the year the Boston Globe Magazine issued an article entitled “Biggest Art Colony in the World in Provincetown”, written by A.J. Philpott. This article put Provincetown on the world map as a place for artists, filled with numerous art schools and legendary light, and contributed to an identity that endures ...

This exhibition is a series that was made in 2011 and 2012 in which Arbus paid homage to the late, great painters such as Cezanne, David, Ingres, Modigliani and Picasso. After she began photographing her biggest challenges were how to create extremely soft lighting, skewed perspectives, Picasso’s elongated fingers and Modigliani’s incredibly long necks. It was in solving these problems that she fo...

This exhibition will illustrate Neily is a master painter in her own right, and is considered to be one of the Cape School’s most adept practitioners. Neily’s paintings are included in private, corporate and museum collections throughout the US and abroad. In Provincetown she teaches at the Cape School of Art and is represented by the Hilda Neily Gallery. A painter, photographer and mixed-media ar...

This exhibition featuring landscape paintings and works on paper created by the married couple from 1975-2008. Art historian Mary E. Abell, PhD., curates a survey of work by Wellfleet artists Nora Speyer and Sideo Fromboluti this summer at PAAM. Married for 71 years, the artists Nora Speyer and Sideo Fromboluti (1920-2014) shared studios in New York and Wellfleet throughout their careers. The two ...

This summer we present an exhibition of paintings by Maurice Freedman in Light, Palette, Action! A prolific artist with a true love of the New England subject matter, he captured the essence of that time. His many canvasses include historical references to implements and life in Provincetown that no longer exist. What is unique about this exhibit is curator Mary Sherman’s recognition of the influe...

This exhibition of Paul Resika’s influences include Abstract Expressionism, realism, and impressionism. “Resika is recognized for the buoyancy of his palette and the basic shapes of his subjects, which are pared down to the simplest geometric forms—neat little houses in profiles and swishes of color that define the boats. His paintings are just a suggestion of a scene, but they are enough to spark...