Elspeth Halvorsen���s The Whole World Is Watching, 2001
still reigned in Provincetown and beyond. In the
1920s and 1930s the representational images of t h e
Ashcan School, Social Realism, and Regionalism held
sway in America. Hofmann recognized the need for
modernism in American culture, which he saw as
���repressed���.
Hofmann, like Hawthorne, had detractors among his students,
notably Red Grooms. Grooms came to Provincetown to study
with Hofmann but was dissatisfied with his teaching. He sought
his own style incorporating collage, sculptural pieces, and
cartoon-like characters. In the exhibition is an aquatint called
To The Lighthouse, which shows a pensive Grooms looking over
Edward Hopper���s shoulder as he paints a lighthouse.
Edward Hopper (1882-1967 is represented in this exhibition
by a particularly striking view of Blackhead on Monhegan
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