Left: Marsden Hartley���s Move
No.8; Below: A Charles Demuth
landscape
Expatriates imported modern artistic ideas to Provincetown.
They knew the work of Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne, Van Gogh
and Duchamp who had begun moving towards the grand
experiment of abstraction. The new aesthetic took hold in
Provincetown by 1916 and, much as it had in New York,
provoked a reaction on the part of the more traditional painters.
Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley and Charles Demuth were
part of the group of young and adventurous painters who
spent time in Provincetown after 1914, developing there their
own unique styles, sharing the ideas and techniques they
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