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provincetprovincetown provincetown authors forthen provincetown authors headquarters headquarters provincetown people headquarters provincetown people booksliterary literary prints and and blockprints etching block etching credit provincetown credit provincetown by priced priced priced lowbooks 'everyman books books modernmodern librarylibrary modern library lendinglending library library ancient withoutancient Provincetown Bookshop 447 COMMERCIAL STREET Next to Peter Hunt's Phone 473-2 Newcomb-Macklin Co. WILLIAM H. YOUNG PICTURE FRAME MAKERS 45 West 27th Street, New York INSURANCE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Ready Made Stock Frames in All Regular Sizes for Immediate Delivery Representing the Leading Companies of the World GEORGE A. McCoy, Manager ART GALLERY AND WORK SHOP Losses Adjusted Promptly 400-408 North State Street Chicago, Ill. Provincetown, Massachusetts Catalogues Sent to Art Dealers, Decorators and Artists BEHRENDT Oil Colors THE EXHIBITION IS OPEN DAILY FROM 10 A. M. to 6 P. M. ADMISSION 10 CENTS. PFEIFFERS’ SUNDAYS, FREE FROM 2 to 6 P. M. PROVINCETOWN, MASS. Distributors for U. S. Artists’ Supplies Boob The Adams Pharmacies EITHER THE ATTENDANT AT THE DESK are the Up-toDate Stores of the Cape. Visit them OR A SALESMAN WILL BE GLAD TO FUR NISH ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING PROVINCETOWN and SALES SAGAMORE TH€ S€A CH€ST A. AUSTIN DUNHAM SEAMEN’S SAVINGS BANK ANTIQU€S Provincetown Mass. Specializing in Prints Money Goes on Interest the First of Each Month 436 COMMERCIAL ST., PROVINCETOWN TOWN CRIER SHOP Provincetown Association AND Art ADVOCATE GIFT SHOP Incorporated FOUNDED IN 1914 GIFTS Seventh JEWELRY STATIONERY Modern Exhibition RENT YOUR STUDIO OF F. A. DAYS & SONS July 2nd to July 30th 1933 F. A. DAYS & SONS GENERAL CONTRACTORS Jury of Selection Coal, Wood, Lumber, Doors, Windows and Blinds, Lime, Cement, Brick, Building Materials Oliver Chaff ee Shelby Shackelford of All Kinds Howard Gibbs Ben Shahn Mark Baum PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS Jack Tworkov Telephone 41 OFFICERS President-William H. Young. Honorary Vice-Presidents-Frederick J. Waugh, Richard E. Miller, George Elmer Browne, Gerrit A. Beneker, W. H. W. Bicknell. Acting Director-I&%. Harold Haven Brown. Acting Vice-President-Mrs. Eugene W. Watson. YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN Corresponding Secretary--Harry N. Campbell. Treasurer--Mrs. Henry J. Winslow. The TRUSTEES Art Association Dr. Percival J. Eaton, Mrs. Charles W. Hawthorne, William H. Provincetown Young, Frank E. Potter, Henry J. Winslow, William L'Engle, Frank Incorporated Desch, Coulton Waugh, Floyd Clymer, Harry N. Campbell, Gerrit A. Beneker, Mrs Harold Haven Brown. CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS Article II. Objects and Purposes. The objects and COMMITTEES purposes of this association shall be to promote and cul- House Ways and Means tivate the fine arts, and to that end to establish and Mrs. Henry J. Winslow, Chairman Mrs. Frank Little, Chairman maintain for the town of Provincetown a permanent collection of paintings and other works of art. Also to hold exhibitions of paintings and other works of art and LIFE MEMBERS to promote the advancement of art by means of social *Edwin A. Grozier Mrs. Anna M. Young intercourse between artists and those interested in the William H. Young Mrs. Anne Dunbar arts. *John D. Adams *Mrs. Emily c. Eaton MEMBERS Dr. Percival J. Eaton Mrs. Henry J. Winslow Henry J. Winslow *Frederick c. Boynton Section 1. Membership in this association shall be divided as *Rev. Henry Mottett, D. D. Mrs. CarolineBrewster Crooker follows: Conrad W. Crooker Mrs. Frances E. Deland a. Associate members-Dues $2.00 per year. Miss Sarah S. Munroe Miss Charlotte S. Cullen b. Contributing members-Dues $5.00 per year. Miss Florence Waterbury Frank A. Days, Jr. c. Sustaining members--Dues$10.00 per year. Frank A. Days Mrs. Adele Shrenk Rogers d. Life members-$50.00. Joseph A. Days ma Frank Little e. Patrons-Any person contributing $100.00 or more. *Howard F. Hopkins Mrs. E. Ambrose Webster f. Benefactors--Any person contributing$500.00 or more. Mrs.Alice G. Grozier Leslie N. Brock Emanuel Fellman PATRONS *Miss Elizabeth W. Roberts *Mrs. Florida Duncan *Deceased Sevenths Modern Exhibition Foreword PAINTINGS--Large gallery ECENT critiques of American Art reveal a con- troversy over the question, whether an artist’s R work must be unmistakably stamped by the la. Ruby Evelyn Dugosh. The Factory country he lives in. Naturally it is not a question that can be solved by each artist individually. The 1. Blanche Lazeell. Lady Slippers artist has little dellberate choice, the course of his art being predetermined mostly by his own make-up. 2. Fritz Pfeiffer. A Garden in Andaluz The question is only a matter of critical attitude- what to accept & what to reject. 3. S. L. Shane. Rhapsody in Blue It is peritinent in a foreword to this exhibition, be- cause fanatical believers in “Americana” in American 4. Tod Lindenmuth. The Storm at Truro art, are likely to carry over this belief, by “picture thinking”, from American art to Provincetown art, 6. Harold Holmes Wrenn. Solomon’s One critic some time ago expressed his surprise that in “the ancient village of Provincetown’ in “the heart 6. tod Lindenmuth. Dory Fishermen of New England”, people painted abstract pictures. In the mind of the critic one had to live at least as near Paris as New York to paint abstractly. It is 7. Ellie Roberts. Aloes perhaps needless to say. that many artists exhibit- regularly in Prmincetown, do live mostly in New York 8. Harold Holmes Wrenn. Shacks and in other towns and cities. It should also be known that strictly Provincetown artists, those liviog 9. William L’Engle. Fishermen here all the year around, paint the most abstract compositions in the show. 10. E. Ambrose webster Bermuda Of course Provincetown offers interesting paint- ing material, which some artists use with sensitiveness. 11. Nina Vassi. Landscape NO. 2 But it would be doing the whole show justice, if visitors put out of their minds the associations sug- gested by “quaint” and “unique’’, words put in their 12. Lucy L’Engle. Spring Landscape minds by the antique dealer, the teashopkeeper. and others catering to the summer trade. Not that Pro- 13. Oliver Chaffee. Mr. Caliga’s Studio vincetown is not quaint and unique, but it would be asking the artlsts to be too giddy, to constantly draw 14. William L’Engle. Street Music upon these qualities for spiritual sustenance. finally it is perhaps necessary to remind the 16. Agnes Weinrich. Three Figures visitor that although many of the exhibitors are of national significance in American art, the whole ex- 16a. Jide fujita Viola hibition is necessarily a community show including first exhibits of young painters as well as the mature 16. Charles Kaeselau. The House Near the Dunes work of mature artists 17. Marjorie Gowie. The Bathers Shelby Shackelford. The Peters Family Ada Gilmore. Valentine Nina Vassi. Landscape No. Thetis Lemmon. Houses Shelby Shackelford. Still Life Ross Moff ett. Provincetown Evening Shelby Shackelford. Devoe Park Mark baum Coal Gleaners Shelby Shackelford. Marionette Players Sewell Johnson. Memoranda, Makch 1933 Oliver Chaffee. A Study Mark Baum. Dumping Fish Ellie Roberts. Point Lebos Joe Jones. Landscape Karl Knaths. The N. d. M. Windust. Composition E. Ambrose Webster. Highland Jido S. Fujita. Les Trois Mouvements Oliver Chaffee. The Chintz Chair J. William Kennedy. Road in Sicily Howard Gibbs. Rooming House-Rutland Ellie Roberts. Carmel Square Pa Hunt. Rue du Bac-Paris Joe Jones. Sand Hills Ross Moffett. Negress Anton Van Dereck. Portrait of a Nordic Pa Hunt. The Boulevard Anton Van Dereck. Portrait of a Slav Dorothy Loeb. Woman and Church Ada Gilmore. Still Life Dorothy Loeb. Piles and Barrel Agnes Weinrich. Still Life Dorothy Loeb. Block and Pulley Lucy L’Engle. Two Figures Richard Cox. Metal Shop Mark Baum. “The Workers Demand Their Rights” Ida Rauh. Head of D. H. Lawrence (Bronze) Karl Knaths. Harvest Flora Schofield. Chicago Street Mark Baum. Scottsboro-The Spring of Unity Marjorie Gowie. Woman and Child Evelin Bodfish Bourne. The Visit Flora Schofield. Pears Agnes Weinrich. The Red Goblet L.Anne Dunbar. figure in Marble BALCONY Karl Knaths. “Tony” Marcia S. Hite. Nip and Tuck Evelin Bodfish Bourne. Sea Sponge Karl Knaths. Deer on Chocorua Leo J. Meissner. Stairway Oliver Chaffee. Bar St. Jean Thelma Raybeck Riggs. The Dairt Thelma Raybeck Riggs. Provincetown Wharf Oliver Chaffee. Still Life Oliver Chaffee. Leaves Blanche Baxter. Landscape Agnes Weinrich. Sun Flowers Coreen Mary Spellman. Oil Tanks Dorothy Lake Gregory. Fish for Friday Ross Moffett. Portuguese Women Karl Knaths. Geranium at Night Window Madeleine L’Engle. Poppies Karl Knaths. Little Red Rooster LITTLE GALLERY Shelby Shackelford. Webb Institute Blanche Lazzell. Boat Oliver Chaffee. Abstraction Blanche Lazzell. Violet Petunias Karl Knaths. New England Cream Pitcher Blanche Lazzell. Sail Boats Charles J. Martin. River and Dunes Blanche Lazzell. Town Wharf Shelby Shackelford. Head Gladys G. Young. Acrobat Ada Gilmoree. Lily Gladys G. Young. Workers M. Kathryn Burrows. “Silo”-Provincetown Lucy L’Engle. Drawing No. 1 Oliver Chaffee. Easter Egg Oliver Chaffee. Red Hot Pokers Lucy L’Engle. Drawing No. 2 Charles J. Martin. Pamet River M. Kathryn Burrows. Two Figures Oliver Chaffee. Duck Byron Thomas. In for Repairs Agnes Weinrich. Sun Flowers (Drawing) Ross Moffett. Man Hunting Arrowheads Ada Gilmore. Spring Ross Moffett. Provincetown Women Karl Knaths. Robin and Lilacs Byron Thomas. Tramps Sam Charles. Winter Landscape LANDS END TEA HOUSE Lucy L’Engle. Drawing No. 3 (Formerly The Old Higgins Bungalow. West End) Luncheon-Tea-Dinner-Supper Blanche Lazzell. Boats This rambling bungalow atop one of Provincetown’s John Petrina. Landscape highest hills offers superb views of harbor, dunes and outer coast. Mary Hackett. Pencil Drawing Guests are urged to make luncheon and supper reservations in advance. Agnes Weinrich. The Blue Pitcher Miss Irene W. Buckler Telephone 2-4 Lucy L’Engle. Drawing No. 4 F.