Cape Cod’s naturally spectacular environment and cultural community continuously draw people from across the globe. As John Taylor Williams wrote, this was true over 100 years ago as well. “Beginning around 1910, those dedicated to radical political reform, a new exploration of personal relationships free from Victorian strictures, and a search for the new ‘American’ voice in writing, painting, architecture, and theater congregated . . .” —The Shores of Bohemia, A Cape Cod Story, 1910-1960
 

Honoring this history and celebrating contemporary creators, the Addison Art Gallery developed "Beyond Bohemia”—multi-media efforts including art exhibitions, book signings, panels, music, and plein air gatherings. Work by dozens of artists from across the United States and abroad will be shown in changing exhibits. 
 
Cape Cod has long offered a plethora of opportunities for these diverse endeavors. “Few travelers are experts in American history or architecture, in geology, Atlantic coast fishing, the modern theater, antiques, painting and marine biology. And yet when you visit the Cape all these are at hand, tied up in a tight, neat piece of country smelling of pine and offered you at the Canal Bridge like a prize box. There is so much packed into a small space in that magnificent yet cozy world called Cape Cod that fires the imagination. You want to know a lot of things, all kinds of things on sea and land.” —Down Cape Cod by Katherine Dos Passos and Edith Shay (written in 1936)

 

As works for the exhibits are completed, they will be posted here.

 

The Artists

Karri Allrich

  • Sun-kissed Flowers | acrylic | 28 x 22, framed 29 x 23 | $2,500
    "It is not the sentimental viewpoint but the earnest seeking to see beauty—in the relation of one tone against another—which expresses truth—the right attitude." —Charles Hawthorne

Karri Allrich is an expressive New England artist painting evocative landscapes, seascapes, and nature-inspired abstractions. She is a graduate of the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC, influenced by Wolf Kahn, Fairfield Porter, Forrest Moses, and Helen Frankenthaler.

Her work is in private, public and corporate collections, including Nordstrom Inc, Horchow, Claire Murray, and the Town of Mashpee. Karri was chosen as an Arts Foundation of Cape Cod’s Pops by the Sea Commemorative Artist, and has been featured in Cape Cod Life Magazine, Cape Cod Life's Annual Arts Issue, Cape Women Magazine, The Review, and House Beautiful.

Julia Cumes

  • Harvesting Dreams, Wellfleet | archival pigment print | 16 x 24, framed 16.25 x 24.25 | $1,400

Award-winning photographer Julia Cumes captures the long history of Wellfleet's shellfishing community in "Harvesting Dreams, Wellfleet." Here, she portrays Sonya Woodman in the midst of wild harvesting, demanding yet rewarding work. Sonya’s deep bond with our environment is representative of an integral part of the rich tapestry celebrated in "Beyond Bohemia”. Cumes’ image joins an honored tradition where creativity and nature converge.

SaraJane Doberstein

  • Moody Blues | oil on canvas | 24 x 36, framed 25.5 x 37.5 | $4,800
    "Of water sucking the hollow ledges, Tons of water striking the shore,— What do they long for, as I long for One salt smell of the sea once more?” —Edna St. Vincent Millay, Inland

Sara Jane Doberstein is a Signature member of Oil Painters of America, American Women Artists, and the American Society of Marine Artists. Her work has been included and won awards in many prominent juried exhibitions across North America including the Grand Prize winner with the American Women Artists Rockwell Museum show, Oil Painters of America, American Women Artists and Salon International.  She has been featured in several publications, including Cape Cod Arts, American Art Collector and International Artist Magazine.

Maryalice Eizenberg

  • The House that Jack Built | oil | 24 x 18, framed 25.5 x 19.5 | $1,500
    In this piece, you can almost hear the back door slam as author Hayden Herrara and her sister, Blair, race through the woods to swim in their pond behind the house built by their father, Jack Phillips. In her memoir, Upper Bohemia, Herrara speaks of the wildness of her childhood summers on the acres of Wellfleet woodlands.

Maryalice Eizenberg is an award-winning artist and Massachusetts native. She has studied with accomplished painters John Cosby, Donald Demers, Joseph Paquet and Charles Sovek. Her work has been featured in Cape Cod Life and Chatham magazines. Her work has been included in The Creative Spirit, Art in Chatham's Old Village and Contemporary Cape Cod Artists, People & Places. She teaches at the Creative Arts Center in Chatham and is a member of Oil Painters of America, American Women Artists, Cape Cod Plein Air Painters and 21 in Truro. Her work is held in private collections in the United States, Europe and Japan.

Stephanie Foster

  • Provincelands | photograph | 20 x 29.5, framed 29 x 38.5 | $900
    The land and the sea were so beautiful artists cobbled a shelter together to be as close to them as possible and learn their secrets.

When Stephanie Foster attended New England School of Photography, she was told to never stop taking photographs. She didn’t. For 14 years, as a creative director in Boston, she did both the photography and copywriting for her clients. Later she turned her talents to fashion photography, working at a Newbury Street studio. She also appeared on WBZ as a gift consultant and tipster. When she moved to the Cape, her interest shifted to nature photography, landscapes and portraiture as well as writing.

Marc Hanson

  • Breaking Through | acrylic | 12 x 16, framed 14 x 18 | $1,750
    “The trail cut through the blueberry moors, dipped into the pine woods, and arrived in a little valley where the light filtered through the green leaves of young trees.” —Mary Heaton Vorse, Time and the Town

“I have pursued a career as a painter for many years now. Along the way my methods, materials and focus have evolved. A naturalist at heart, the landscape is the perfect vehicle for expressing the joy I have for the world that surrounds me. I’m most successful when I’m able to communicate that joy to the viewers of my paintings.”

Marc teaches landscape painting workshops nationally.

Marc has shown his work in galleries and museums nationally and internationally since the early 1980s. He is a Master Signature Member of The Oil Painters of America (O.P.A.M.), having won an Award of Excellence at O.P.A. National Exhibits in 2000, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011. In 2011 Marc’s painting ‘Right or Left’ was awarded Bronze Medal for Painting at the OPA National Exhibition in Coeur d’Alene, ID. Among his many awards, he’s placed four times in The Pastel Journal’s ‘Pastel 100’ competition.

Marc Kundmann

Marc Kundmann studied and workshopped with fine artists connected to the long tradition of painting on the Cape including Robert Henry, Jim Peters, Bert Yarborough and Richard Baker. He combines wax, oil and acrylic media to create works layered with vibrant color, transparency, and texture. He focuses on using this intriguing and beautiful surface to give his subjects emotional life and hint at the mystery inside.

Dottie Leatherwood

  • Seeking | oil | 24 x 36, framed 25.5 x 37.5 | $2,950
    “Always the sea was throwing treasure trove on the shore — cloth and liquor and wood for building, everything could be found a man might need. Beachcombers were ever busy looking on the beach. Today one lone beachcomber patrols the shore for what he may find.” —Mary Heaton Vorse, Time and the Town

Dottie Turner Leatherwood is an impressionist with a passion for the coastal landscape. Growing up, she spent time sketching and writing, her imagination fueled by the landscape. Dottie continues to draw her inspiration from nature and feels a sense of responsibility to record that beauty in hopes that others will see the value in preserving our natural environment for generations to come.

Sharon McGauley

Sharon McGauley, an internationally collected artist, has earned multiple grants and a residencies. Her richly layered, evocative oil paintings are found in museums, galleries and private collections worldwide. Her landscape work is grounded deeply in a sense of place, and captures the beauty of a broad range of subjects, each one defined by shifting, simple palettes and a love of big spaces and subtle tones.

Jonathan McPhillips

  • Delightful Angles | oil | 12 x 9, framed 18 x 15 | $1,500
    “When I visited Bound Brook Island and the properties frequented by the bohemians, I felt like I was in a visual time machine. The grass a little long, the shrubs overgrown, and the buildings eerily vacant. Yet energy and life seemed present. One could almost hear the laughter of a playwright and a painter or see the flash of a scientist playfully chasing a musician between the buildings. All these feelings and imaginations were brought to life in the 'Delightful Angles' of the structures left behind." —Jonathan McPhillips

Jonathan McPhillips graduated from Connecticut College in 1993 with a Cum Laude Distinction in Fine Art. Working in the studio and on location, his work includes the harbors, beaches, vessels, and architecture of our coastal marine environment—a celebration of coastal New England.

Recent accomplishments include multiple awards in juried shows at the Salmagundi Club, NY, NY and the achievement of signature status in The American Impressionists Society. Jonathan continues to be invited by the U.S. Department of State to participate in the “Art in Embassies” program which  has sent his work to U.S. embassies around the globe.

Andrea Petitto

  • Bohemian Woman | oil | 24 x 18, framed 25 x 19 | $2,100
    “Mostly I was interested in the model and the pose. The pose suggests strength and possibly defiance. As the painting developed it reminded me of the women of the early twentieth century American art movement on Cape Cod, the bohemians. The long dress, the simple interior, the window view suggesting nature and the sea. Most of all, the attitude of a woman breaking her own ground.” —Andrea Petitto

Andrea Petitto was born in rural Massachusetts where, in her youth, she had to choose between art and science. Instead of the usual children's literature, as a small child Andrea was fascinated by the images in large folio books of Rodin and Michelangelo sculptures. These influences can still be seen in the strong sense of solidity and form in her paintings. In 1990, after a career as university professor and industry consultant, she moved to art. Andrea taught art classes at Finger Lakes Community College in Canandaigua NY, Cape Cod Art Association in Barnstable and Creative Arts Center, Chatham. She has had solo shows in Canandaigua and at the Copley Society in Boston, and has won many awards in Rochester, NY, Boston’s Copley Society, and at many venues on Cape Cod.

Anna Poor

  • Night Visitor, Thalassa Mouse | unique bronze | 2 x 3 x 6 | $3,200
    Anna Poor was introduced to the magical world of the dunes by Joyce Johnson, and had the good fortune to stay in the dune shack, Thalassa, through The Peaked Hill Trust lottery. This bronze mouse was inspired by visits from her midnight shack mates.

Anna Poor is a sculptor with deep roots in the Cape. She has had numerous one person and group shows, many awards, including a mid-career survey in 2010 at Provincetown Art Association and Museum and a Massachusetts Artist fellowship in 2001. She has been on the board of Castle Hill since 1988, and teaches at Northeastern University.

Cynthia Reid

In Cynthia Reid’s newest works, color, shape, and texture are key elements. Her birds, florals, bird nests, cottages, landscapes, and garden vignettes provide a contemporary take on traditional subject matter. In painting her flowers and birds, she takes a whimsical approach and uses a sunny palette of colors. “These paintings are intended to evoke joy and portray the inherent beauty of the natural world,” says Reid.

Cynthia Reid left a successful career as a physician to pursue a passion for painting that had consistently increased while she was practicing medicine.  Her interest in art began when she was young and painted with her paternal grandparents, both of whom were oil painters.

Paul Schulenburg

  • Mary Heaton Vorse | oil | 24 x 18, framed 30 x 24 | $4,500

Paul Schulenburg is an internationally collected artist whose work has shown at the Hopper House Museum, in solo shows at Cape Cod Museum of Art, at Provincetown Art Association and Museum and Cahoon Museum of American Art. He has appeared over dozens of times in respected national art publications including on the cover. Schulenburg is a first place Copley artist, member of Oil Painters of America and was commissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to create a portrait of museum trustee Eliot Forbes.

Events

2024
Beyond Bohemia at the Wellfleet Public Library 
Exhibit June 3 through June 28, 2024
Play Reading "Trifles"
Thursday, June 6 at 6:00
Live Model Painting
Saturday, June 8 1:00 to 4:00

Professor Mary Jane Treacy Talk
Monday, June 10 at 7:00

Plein Air Painting Saturday morning June 15
Reception Saturday, June 15 from 5:00 to 6:30
55 West Main Street, Wellfleet

Beyond Bohemia at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater 
September 2024
Route 6, Wellfleet
Reception September 13 4:30 to 6:00
Beyond Bohemia at The Mary Heaton Vorse House

The Mary Heaton Vorse House to show relevant works throughout the year
466 Commercial Street, Provincetown

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