Provincetown, Massachussetts is at the tip of Cape Cod. It is 90 miles out to sea from the mainland and surrounded by water on three sides.  It is where the Pilgrims landed and celebrated the first Thanksgiving.

It has been an artists' colony for well over a century.

We have selected some of our best selling artists for the online gallery. Click on the artist's name to view their biography and thumbnails of their work. Click on a thumbnail for a larger view of each painting. Enjoy your stay here and come again soon: The gallery continues to grow, new works from our artists are being added, new artists are being added to our list.

The Artists

Susan Baker     Arthur Cohen    Al Dilauro  

William Harper Evaul Jr

Lisbeth Firmin     Jackson Lambert     Jim Rann

 

Susan Baker was born in 1946 in Upton, Massachusetts. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1968 with a BFA in painting and received a Fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in 1969.

In 1983 she opened her own gallery of humorous art in North Truro, MA, called THE SUSAN BAKER MEMORIAL MUSEUM. Over the door hangs the sign: "Before you ask - I call it THE MEMORIAL MUSEUM because I always wanted my own museum and I figured I'd be dead by the time I got it...SB.

In 1998, she had a museum show of her early works, 1968-1982 at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. In 1999, her book THE HISTORY OF PROVINCETOWN was published. In 2000, her book, PROVINCETOWN DOGS was released. When asked for a statement about herself, she replied: "The greatest strength in my work is my ability to move beyond what I know I can do, into new mediums even. For instance, now I'm writing humorous travel books, sort of illuminated manuscripts. Maybe next year, I'll take up tap dancing."

             

Arthur Cohen, now in his early 70's has been painting for 40 years.  An artist much respected by other painters, he has not yet received the wide public recognition, he so truly deserves. A native New Yorker, he first visited Provincetown in 1961.  He is a master of the cape seascape but New York City is also often a subject. His wife, Elizabeth Rodgers, a concert musician inspires his work as well.

He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the Guggenheim, the Gottlieb (2x) and the Pollock Krasner (2x).  His work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum (NYC), the Brooklyn Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Hirshhorn (Washington, D.C.) as well as many private and corporate collections.

Three years ago, he began painting miniature oils on paper.  They sell for $250 each.

            



Al DiLauro was born in south Philadelphia.  He attended Fleisher Art Memorial and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.  He moved to NYC in the late 1950's and around that time started spending summers in Provincetown.  Noted critic and painter, William Pellicone has called Al DiLauro "the Cellini of Collage".  At first glance, the collages can be mistaken for photographs.  In the early 1980's, some of these collages were included in a museum show in Utica, NY with work by Philip Pearlstein, Richard Estes and Chuck Close -the foremost realist painters in America. Al died suddenly in 1985, at the age of 55.  In researching a magazine article about Al (published in the 1999 annual edition of the Provincetown Arts Magazine), we located the estate.  We coordinated 2 shows (one in NYC and one on Cape Cod) and now represent the estate.



           



William Harper Evaul, Jr. employs a kind of Figurative Expressionism to produce paintings and woodcuts of diverse subjects such as exuberant musicians, dancing houses and city skylines. His oil paintings often include constructions and found objects.

Alongside his painting, Evaul has produced over 100 woodblock images with a rare process known as the Provincetown Print or single block white-line wood cut. He pushes the limits of the medium by utilizing multiple layering of color and expanding the images in size and complexity. Seeking out the finest of hand-made Japanese papers, he produces small, medium and large scale work, the largest of which measure 3' x 6'. A print from his Muse-Musician series, 'The Joint is Jumping' was included in the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibition sponsored show, Provincetown and the Art of Printmaking.

Evaul studied painting and printmaking at Syracuse University School of Art and Pratt Institute (BFA) with graduate seminars at the Whitney Museum of Art (1981). He went to Provincetown in 1970 as a painting Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center and he continues to maintain a studio at the end of Cape Cod.

           

Lisbeth Firmin is a 1999/2000 recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation grant. "She combines traditional landscape painting with expressive modern imagery. Her urban landscapes are inspired by the energy of the modern city and the sometimes alienated places that people occupy in it. Although she is a figurative artist in the tradition of John Sloan and Edward Hopper, she is not interested in a literal depiction of her environment as much as in the economy and boldness of the brush stroke defining an object."  Lisbeth spent the 1970's in Provincetown.  She studied with Leo Manso and Victor Candell and later with Philip Malicoat. She painted portraits on the street at the Starving Artists Studio.  In 1979, she moved to New York City but often returns to the Cape.  In the summer of 1999, she was one of three artists awarded a C-Scape Dune Shack residency.  She also received a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center.  She ended this year with a one person show of recent work at the Institute of Culture in Lima, Peru.

           



Jackson Lambert was born in 1919 in Danville, Illinois. He first came to Provincetown in 1940 as a student of Professor AlForce Bailey of the University of Illinois. He later studied at the Art Students League in NYC. He went into the US Army as a cavalryman and tank commander and participated in 5 campaigns in northern Europe.

He worked as a freelance art director for 20 years. During that time, in 1954, he married Carmen Felt. In 1966, he came permanently to Provincetown, where he has since belabored himself at painting and sculpture, inspired by the single-mindedness of his old friend and fellow Beachcomber, Bruce McKain.

In 1994, on his 75th birthday a retrospective of his work opened at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. He still has a weekly column in the Provincetown Banner and the Advocate.

       

Jim Rann was born in 1943 in Lansing, Michigan. He moved to Provincetown in the early 1970's and bought a guest house. He had gone to hairdressing school back in Michigan and started cutting people's hair in his kitchen. He sold his guest house in 1977 and opened a hair salon, WAVES, which he still owns and operates.

Since the 1980's, he has been deeply involved with the AIDS movement. In the 1990's, he was the President of Provincetown Positive/People With Aids Coalition. He also started painting. At first, he donated some of his work to fund raising auctions. They were well received and this led to a one man show at the Art For Aid gallery space.

He sold 21 paintings in 2 weeks! He had his second one man show, SISSIES AND TOMBOYS, at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown in 1998. These are from that show.