A joint exhibition with the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) to be held at Addison Art Gallery bringing awareness to our fertile history and the importance of PAAM in preserving our heritage, while honoring and nurturing the creativity and inspiration of today.

About the Provincetown Art Association and Museum

PAAM was established in 1914 by a group of artists and townspeople to build a permanent collection of works by artists of outer Cape Cod, and to exhibit art that would allow for unification within the community. Integral to the community comprising the Provincetown Art Colony, PAAM embodies the qualities that make Provincetown an enduring American center for the arts, and serves as Cape Cod’s most widely-attended art museum.

As interest in the region’s contribution to American art history continues to grow, PAAM presents an ever-changing lineup of exhibitions, lectures, workshops and cultural events that seek to promote and cultivate appreciation for all branches of the fine arts for which Provincetown is known.

Since the 1920s the Provincetown Art Association and Museum has been a destination in art education.
Today, students of all ages continue to develop their studio art skills in PAAM’s Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Museum School. Workshops, art classes, and education programs led by local teaching artists help build a strong foundation for the modern artist interested in the legacy of the Provincetown art colony.

Inspired by the vibrant culture and creative history of the region, PAAM’s education programs promote the arts as a vital part of everyday life. From our year-round Museum School workshops to our annual lecture series, our programs cultivate the practice and appreciation of all branches of the fine arts, promote education of the public in the arts, and provide meaningful and enriching artistic experiences to all.

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About the Addison Art Gallery

For almost 30 years, the Addison Art Gallery has been honored to represent emerging and master artists from across the Americas and France. The gallery’s reputation for personal service and community support is unmatched. Designated Cape Cod’s Best Gallery by Cape Cod Magazine, the internationally respected Addison Art Gallery is known for representing the region’s most sought-after artists, bringing exceptional emerging artists to the market, offering collectors a plethora of opportunities to get to know artists, and generously supporting numerous community, charitable and environmental organizations.

Praised for its ingenious exhibitions and events, the Addison Art Gallery has collaborated with the Edward Hopper House Museum, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Truro, Wellfleet and Eastham libraries, Cape Cod Hospital, Truro Historical Society & Highland House Museum, Orleans Conservation Commission, Orleans Improvement Association, Orleans Pond Coalition, Orleans Historical Society, Wild Care, and Henry Beston Society. The gallery was chosen as the Cape Cod National Seashore’s dedicated art partner for the 50th anniversary of the Seashore, and for the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service; created “After Hopper,” an ongoing venture celebrating contemporary artists inspired by Edward Hopper and the places he painted; presented “Outermost Inspirations,” an homage to Henry Beston’s The Outermost House in 2018; and is orchestrating “In Thoreau’s Views,” an artful look at Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod; and Beyond Bohemia recognizing 100 years of art and community.

“One of the nation's leading year-round galleries” American Art Collector magazine
“Only the most riveting of talent“—Insider’s Guide to Cape Cod
Editor’s Choice Award: Fine Art Gallery—Cape Cod Life
"One of the most successful galleries in the country” astounding “the public with art by newly discovered artists and masterpieces by established artists.” American Art Collector magazine

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The Artists
LaForce Bailey
Steve Bowersock
William Freed
Marc Kundmann
Lillian Orlowsky
Jonathan McPhillips
Paul Schulenburg
Nancy Webb

LaForce Bailey

LaForce Bailey (1893-1962)

LaForce Bailey, a professor of art at the University of Illinois for half of his life, and student of Charles Hawthorne, he painted prolifically in Provincetown during summer breaks. He was inspired by, and built this paintings, on everyday scenes—the wharves, dunes, fishing vessels, Commercial Street, Wellfleet Harbor.

His paintings are busy, bold, loose and abundant with expertly chosen color. “I paint expressionistically—that is, I use objects to express the way I feel toward fundamental truths.”

LaForce Bailey earned the highest awards from the American Watercolor Society in 1934 and '36, showed often at the Chicago Art Institute, and created a large-scale mural for the Chicago World's Fair in 1933.

LaForce Bailey served as president of the Provincetown Art Association. His work is in permanent collections of PAAM and the town of Provincetown.

Steve Bowersock

Steve Bowersock

William Freed

William Freed, Abstract Realist (1902-1984)

Influenced by Cezanne, A close friend and student of Hans Hoffmann, William Freed was an established central member of both the New York and Provincetown art communities. With an analytical and dialectical mind, he painted deeply expressions reflecting his response to nature through cubism colored shapes, and forms.

Freed’s distinctive body of work was more graceful and representational than his mentor’s, Han Hoffman’s, while both are praised for vibrant, spirited abstractions.

Freed studied at the Educational Alliance and the Arts Student League in New York and worked for the Federal WPA which transformed art in public spaces. His hundreds of oil paintings and plethora of watercolors resulted in 22 solo exhibitions, and 40 invitational and group shows throughout the US and Europe.

Freed's paintings are in major public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Chrysler Museum of Art, National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian and Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, among others, as well as an abundance of prestigious private collections.

Marc Kundmann

Marc Kundmann (1963- )

Marc Kundmann works in encaustic, oil and acrylic media, building and removing layers of color, transparency, and pigments, while expressively employing texture. The resulting layers create intriguing and beautiful surfaces, that give emotional life to the subjects and hint at the mystery inside.

Kundmann studied and workshopped with fine artists connected to the long tradition of creating on Cape Cod including Robert Henry, a student of Hans Hofmann, and Fine Arts Work Center Fellows Jim Peters, Bert Yarborough and Richard Baker. Through them he learned to explore materials, freeing himself from the constraints of representing the real world and allowing him to work expressively, responding to color and composition allowing the painting to evolve into its final form. "Painting my surroundings, the characters, towns and wilds of the Outer Cape, my works give emotional life to the subjects and hint at the mystery inside.” —Marc Kundmann

Recent exhibitions include a one man show at Addison Art Gallery and "Body Language" at Great Pond Gallery in Wellfleet in 2024. His work is featured in Deborah Forman’s comprehensive book, Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: Images of Land and Sea (Schiffer Publishing, 2013).

With a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois Kundmann and many workshops the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown MA, Kundmann is a teaching-artist at the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Museum School at PAAM.

Jonathan McPhillips

Jonathan McPhillips  (1971-)

“Working equally in the studio and on location, chasing the day and the night in the harbors, hamlets, landscapes, and cities of New England and beyond, I strive to share it all.” —Jonathan McPhillips

Lillian Orlowsky

Lillian Orlowsky (1914-2004)

Lillian Orlowsky studied at the Alliance Art School, the National Academy of Design, the American Artist School, and the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art.

Studying with Hofmann, she had a studio at Days Lumber Yard (now the Fine Arts Work Center), along with George McNeil, Fritz Bultman, William Freed, Perle Fine, Peter Busa, Bruce McKain, Jan Muller, Myron Stout, and Myrna Harrison.

A WPA (Works Projects Administration - Art Project) artist, Orlowski was part of the cultural change in painting as trends went from realism to abstraction. "I no longer saw painting as an imitation of nature, but, instead, as an attempt to interpret nature on the picture plane.” —Lillian Orlowsky

In her 70-year career, she was also a textile designer, teacher and curator. Her work was included in the 1939 World's Fair in New York.

Orlowsky's paintings are in major public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the Chrysler Museum of Art.

Paul Schulenburg

Paul Schulenburg  (1957-)

Nancy Webb

Nancy Webb (1926-2012)

Multi faceted artists Nancy Webb was a painter, art director and print maker in the 1940s. In the 1960s, she also illustrated books and began creating sculptures. She worked in a range of media including wood and resin, bronze, stone and found metals. Her work captures powerful themes of life (Eros), death (Thanatos), creation and the natural world.

Webb had a long and distinguished career, exhibiting her sculptures and drawings throughout the Northeast and Atlantic states. She had a retrospective at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) in 2006, and in 2011 received the life time achievement award. Her work is in their permanent collection and found at the Cape Cod Museum of Art.