Pioneers From Provincetown: The Roots of Figurative Expressionism

Catalog of an exhibition held in Provincetown by the Provincetown Art Association and Museum July 19-September 2, 2013. Includes essays by Adam Zucker, Charles Giuliano and Stephanie DeTroy. This exhibition represents a missing link in American modernism by presenting an alternative history to the celebrated New York School and it's Abstract Expressionist and Color Field painters. In the fifties a new wave of painters invigorated Cape Cod's artistic community and challenged the abstract authority, using the figure as the key structural element in their compositions. As a group at large these seminal Figurative Expressionists include Lester Johnson, Jan Mulle, Bob Thompson, Tony Vevers, Red Grooms, Robert Beauchamp, Bill Barrell , Robert De Niro Sr., George McNeil, Peter Passuntino, Gandy Brody, Mimi Gross, Yvonne Anderson, Jay Milder, Bob Henry, Salina Trieff, Wolf Kahn, and Emilio Cruz.