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BERTA WALKER GALLERY Creative Couples: 1890-Present Seven Exhibitions, Two Galleries, 175 Creative Couples actors, artists, writers, filmmakers, photographers, musicians, dancers, curators Creative Couples Exhibition #5 of series of 7 PROVINCETOWN July 26 - August 17 Opening Reception Friday, July 26, 6 - 8 PM Dorothy Lake Gregory, "Ross Moffett, Sailing", Ross Moffett, (1888-1971) , Unloading the Catch of the oil on panel, 11.5 x 15.5" Day, oil on canvas, 21 x 30" one couple focus exhibitions Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872-1930) & Marion Campbell Hawthorne (1870-1945) Oliver Chaffee (1881-1944) & Ada Gilmore (1882-1955) Ross Moffett (1888-1971) & Dorothy Lake Gregory (1893-1975) and creative couples of the Hawthorne & Hensche schools Salvatore & Josephine Del Deo, Arthur & Heather Egeli, Cedric Egeli & Joanette Hoffman Egeli, Henry Hensche & Ada Raynor, Agnes Weinrich, Helen Weinrich & Karl Knaths; George & Shirley Yater Please note EXTENDED IN WELLFLEET through July 27 Creative Couples of the Fine Arts Work Center A magical Trio: Karl Knaths & Helen Weinrich Knaths & Agnes Weinrich Creative Couples Exhibition #5 , opening July 26 in Provincetown Celebrating Charles W. Hawthorne's legacy through focus exhibitions of Charles & Marion Hawthorne and his students Oliver Chaffee, Ross Moffett, Dorothy Lake Gregory, and Agnes Weinrich. Additionally, creative couples from the Henry Hensche School will be shown. As much as Hawthorne advanced his theories on how to see color and paint, he did not tell his students what to paint. It was as much a philosophy on how to see and live life to the fullest as a philosophy of painting. Charles W. Hawthorne wrote "Art is a necessity, beauty we must have in the world. Painting and sculpture and music and literature are all of the same piece as civilization, which is the art of making it possible for human beings to live together. Charles W. Hawthorne, (1872-1930) Carcassone, 1929, When I speak of art I mean painting, watercolor, 14 x 20" architecture, music, the art of literature, sculpture, the theatre in fact everything that's creative - anything that makes a thought, an idea, or a thing grow where nothing grew before...". Berta Walker Gallery celebrates Hawthorne's great truth through its season-long celebration of Creative Couples of the Provincetown Art Colony, 1890-Present, and indeed all individuals who have created art, architecture, music, poetry brought it to the consciousness of our community and the world. In the Berta Walker Gallery's 30th Anniversary celebration, we are presenting the category "creative couples" as a guideline for making it possible to briefly visit, in one season, the Colony's unique history of hundreds and hundreds of exceptionally creative individuals in many mediums in the arts. Through these Creative Couples we celebrate Hawthorne's words that "art makes it possible for human beings to live together! Art is the necessity of civilization." Oliver Chaffee, (1881-1944) Indian, c. 1938-40, oil on board, 23 7/8 x 18" Creative Couples in Focus Charles Webster Hawthorne & Marion Campbell Hawthorne Oliver Chaffee & Ada Gilmore Ross Moffett & Dorothy Lake Gregory Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872-1930) artist and Marion Campbell Hawthorne (1870-1945) artist Throughout the early decades of this century, the name CHARLES WEBSTER HAWTHORNE was virtually synonymous with the thriving community of Provincetown painters, sculptors, writers, musicians and actors, that gathered in Provincetown each summer. Marion C. Hawthorne, (1870-1945) From Miller Hill, Provincetown, oil on board, 16 x 18" Hawthorne opened his school in Provincetown in 1899. Earlier, in 1896, he discovered William Merritt Chase's summer school, where he was to meet his future wife, Marion Campbell, a very gifted young painter. Born in Lodi, Illinois, he grew up near the ocean in Richmond, Maine, where his father was a captain of the trading ships that plied the New England coast. He left Maine for New York City in 1890. Marion and Charles married in 1903, and worked together during the time Charles ran his Provincetown art school, until he died in 1930. In 1908, their son, Joseph, was born. Joe was a musician and orchestra conductor who later launched the Provincetown Symphony. Like many artists' wives, Marion devoted her time to domestic chores, raising her son and advancing her husband's career. In 1936, she compiled and published her husband's teaching notes, "Hawthorne on Painting." A one-person exhibition of Marion's watercolors was recently presented at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum to rave reviews. Berta Walker had presented a one-person show for Marion Hawthorne in 1991 at the outset of her new gallery in Provincetown, in collaboration with Marion's son Joseph Hawthorne. Also shown, were the recently discovered watercolors of Charles Hawthorne's, which Walker helped Joe Hawthorne organize for a major exhibition at the Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. Marion and Charles married in 1903, and worked together during the time Charles ran his Provincetown art school, until he died in 1930. In 1908, their son, Joseph, was born. Joe was a musician and orchestra conductor who later launched the Provincetown Symphony. Like many artists' wives, Marion devoted her time to domestic chores, raising her son and advancing her husband's career. In 1936, she compiled and published her husband's teaching notes, "Hawthorne on Painting." Charles W. Hawthorne, (1872-1930) The Pasture, Provincetown, c. 1927-30 A one-person exhibition of Marion's watercolor, 14 x 20" watercolors was recently presented at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum to rave reviews. Berta Walker had presented a one-person show for Marion Hawthorne in 1991 at the outset of her new gallery in Provincetown, in collaboration with Marion's son Joseph Hawthorne. Also shown, were the recently discovered watercolors of Charles Hawthorne's, which Walker helped Joe Hawthorne organize for a major exhibition at the Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. Oliver Chaffee (1881-1944) artist & Ada Gilmore (1882-1955) artist OLIVER CHAFFEE first came to Provincetown in 1904 studying with Charles Hawthorne for four summers. He then moved to France, returning again to Provincetown in 1914 because of the threat of war. Many of his friends in Paris, with whom he'd painted and to whom he'd introduced his cherished teacher Charles Hawthorne, joined him, including Hartley and Blanche Lazzell. Oliver Chaffee, Coral Snake, 1935-36, watercolor, In 1920-24, Chaffee & his family traveled 12 1/2 x 14 1/2" throughout France, and he maintained an apartment in Paris, exhibiting at the Salon d'Automne. With health problems and his desire to stay in Europe, he was divorced. He then moved to Vence, "A faraway Provincetown suburb." where he enjoyed the camaraderie of his Provincetown friends including Hartley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Reginald Marsh, while establishing contacts with European artists such as Chaim Soutine, Albert Gleizes, Jules Pascin. Chaffee married Ada Gilmore in 1926, an artist whom he had known from prewar Paris and Provincetown. They settled in Vence until 1928 when they returned to Provincetown where they became active in modernist circles that included Agnes Weinrich & Karl Knaths. ADA GILMORE was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1883 and died in Provincetown in 1955. She was recognized as both a print maker and water colorist. Her first art training took place at the Belfast School of Art in Northern Ireland, where Gilmore lived with an aunt after the death of her father when she was 12 (her mother had died four years earlier). After returning to the United States in 1900, she studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Gilmore exhibited drawings in the Independent Artists group show in New York City in 1910, and three years later, traveled to Paris. There, she studied woodblock printing with Ethel Mars, an artist who was Ada Gilmore, (1882-1955), Calla Lily & Rose, part of Gertrude Stein's avant-garde circle. In 1932, watercolor on paper, 14 x 16 1/2" 1915 she came to Provincetown with a small group of expatriate artists from Europe. In Provincetown she continued with printmaking and is one of the original six artists (along with Blanche Lazzell, B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Ethel Mars, Maud Hunt Squire, and Mildred McMillen) credited with the genesis of the Provincetown white-line woodblock print. She traveled to France in 1923 for a reunion with her former instructor and friend, Ethel Mars. During her time in Vence, France, she became reacquainted with Oliver Chaffee, and the two married. Profoundly inspired by the Modern style of artwork produced by Oliver Chaffee and circle of artists with whom he was associated, which included Marsden Hartley, Jules Pascin, and Albert Gleizes, Gilmore began to replace printmaking with painting. She continued painting for the remainder of her career. Gilmore's small, delicate, fresh watercolors and white line prints are homey, everyday scenes of women gardening, doing laundry, and resting, as well as insightful "portraits" of village cottages and streets. They have a bright, light-filled quality that appears totally modern today. Her white line woodcuts "intentionally replicate the translucent quality of watercolor paintings and were often mistakenly identified as such," wrote Barbara Parker, curator 1988, "Ada Gilmore Woodcuts and Watercolors" Mary Ryan Gallery in New York City. Ada Gilmore's art is scarce and it is with huge pleasure that Berta Walker Gallery will be able to re-introduce this special artist again in Provincetown. Ross Moffett (1888-1971) artist & Dorothy Lake Gregory (1893-1975) artist, illustrator ROSS MOFFETT is a Provincetown artist of legendary status. Chris McCarthy, Director of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum observed: "Ross Moffett was a groundbreaking Modernist using Provincetown to create a new way of seeing." Arriving in Provincetown to study with Charles Hawthorne in 1913, Moffett settled here full- time in 1915, becoming one of the founders of the Provincetown Art Association.