Right: Danielle Mailer���s The
Good Daughter, 2007; Below:
Blanche Lazzell���s Shell, 1930
Deborah Forman, in her essay Restoring the Art Colony to Its
Former Glory picks up the thread of history with the founding,
in 1968, of the Fine Arts Work Center on the site of Days
Lumber Yard where years before Raymond Eastwood and Ross
Moffett had spent their first Provincetown winter.
Founded by artists Fritz Bultman, Sal Del Deo, Philip Malicoat,
Robert Motherwell, Myron Stout and Jack Tworkov and
historian Josephine Del Deo, their goal was to guarantee the
future of the colony ���by establishing a place where artists and
writers could have time, uncluttered by the need to make a
living, to pursue their creative endeavors.���
As is completely fitting, Alexander Noelle, exhibition curator,
reserved for himself the final essay in the catalogue which deals
with the youngest artists included in the exhibition and which
includes that most valuable contribution, the fresh observation
of the outsider.
In summation of 112 years of colony history he writes:
HYLAND
