Cape Cod Museum Presents THE ART OF CAPE COD – 200 YEARS
The Cape Cod Museum of Art presents THE ART OF CAPE COD – 200 YEARS, open through January 2, 2011.
Artists have come to the Cape Cod region since the early 19th century. Beginning with John Audubon in 1835, men and women of talent and imagination have been attracted to the light, the lifestyle, and the totality of the area’s varied visual experiences.
The exhibition drawn from the museum’s collection – with a few strategic borrowings from distinguished local collectors – will give gallery visitors a summary tour of the art of our region. Of special interest is the work of Marcus Waterman (1834 – 1914). Waterman graduated from Brown University in 1857 and traveled extensively, painting in Europe, Algeria and California as well as Provincetown. Waterman had a photographic memory and pursued his own vision which often included images from his imagination as in his Algerian-inspired Arabian Nights series. Waterman realized that the Provincetown dunes could stand as proxy for the Algerian desert and rather than traveling to North Africa, he painted many of his Orientalist works in the outermost areas at the tip of Cape Cod.
Image: “In the Dunes” by Marcus Waterman, 1908
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