Cesko's, Provincetown
Artist/Culture
Gustave Baumann
(American, 1881–1971)
Date1917
Mediumgouache over graphite on cream laid paper
Dimensionssheet: 30 x 33.1 cm (11 13/16 x 13 1/16 in.)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineGift of Ann Baumann
Object number2006.278
Label TextProvincetown, at the tip of Cape Cod, became a haven for artists from Boston and New York in the first years of the twentieth century. Charles Hawthorne and E. Ambrose Webster ran summer art schools there. Then, at the beginning of World War I, scores of American expatriate artists returning from Europe settled in Provincetown. They were attracted by the natural beauty of the Cape, and the Continental atmosphere of a fishing village inhabited by Portugese immigrants. Baumann came to town to visit his old friend from Chicago, artist B.J.O. Nordfeldt.ProvenanceThe artist; Ann Baumann, Santa Rosa, CAOn View
Not on view
