Provincetown: The oldest continuous
art colony in America; a vibrant, diverse
and exciting art community that today
is home to over 50 galleries --
we're proud to be one of them.
Gallery Ehva represents exciting roster
of Provincetown and Outer Cape contemporary artists and offers
year-round workshops for beginners
and edvanced students of all ages.
We also work with local art collectors and show Early Provincetown Art and
Modern Art on consignment basis.
Our shows change every two weeks
with openings on every other Friday
evening 6 to 8pm.
Stephen Aiken
Tracey Anderson
James Bakker
Rachel Brown
Daniel Cleary
Barbara Cohen
Didier Corallo
Daniel Dejean
Donna Dodson
Mona Dukess
Rob DuToit
David Ellis
Nathalie Ferrier
Jenny Fragosa
Wendelin Glatzel
Irén Handschuh
Myrna Harrison
Alicia Henry
Jenny Humphreys
Leslie Gillette Jackson
Zehra Khan
René Lamadrid
Jonggeon Lee
Bill Liebeskind
Kevin McDermott
Andy Moerlein
Ewa Nogiec
Janice Redman
Jackie Reeves
Meg Shields
Richard E. Smith
Lisa Ventre
Michael Walden
Rob Westerberg
Tim Winn
Cyndi Wish
Ewa Nogiec, Director
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Early Provincetown Art
Agnes Weinrich (1873-1946)
Agnes Weinrich, Dunes, watercolor on paper, 9x12, signed, left center, original framing
Weinrich, who was Karl Knaths’ sister-in-in law, has, until recently, had her star hidden by the position of Knaths, who in the 1940s was the only recognized modernist in American art.
In point of fact, Weinrich was Knaths’ acknowledged teacher when it came to modern art. She had traveled and studied in France and Germany - a contrast to stay-at-home Knaths.
Like Blanche Lazzell, Weinrich studied with Albert Gleizes, the French Cubist painter, who influenced so many of the Provincetown colony. Weinrich, Lazzell and Lucy L’Engle were all founding members of the New York Society of Women Artists (1925) who were all modernists.
The Collection of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, March 3-13, 2000, The National Arts Club, New York, NY; Curatorial Notes: Tony Vevers
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Agnes Weinrich, (1873-1946) was born in Burlington, Iowa in 1873. She studied with French Cubist, Albert Gleizes, in Berlin, Paris and Rome and with Charles Hawthorne and Blanch Lazzell in Provincetown. She organized and directed the New York Society of Women Painters (the first women's painters association in America) in the 1920s, and was a founder of the Modernist Movement at the Provincetown Artists Association. She exhibited in museums in Washington DC, Boston, New York City, etc. Her work is highly sought after because she was one of the earliest American Modernist artists. She lived with the Karl Knaths' in Provincetown until her death in 1946.
Agnes Weinrich worked as a painter and woodblock printer in New York City and Provincetown. She came from a prosperous Iowa farm family, an advantage which later allowed her to make contact with the New York art world. She was a good friend of Peggy Guggenheim.
Weinrich studied art in Berlin from 1900-03, in Paris with Andre L'hote, and later at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League, and in Provincetown with Charles Hawthorne. She led a group of young artists in Provincetown who experimented with Cubism. Their work led, ultimately, to a split in the Provincetown Art Association between the conservatives and radicals in 1927. Following her sister Helen's marriage in 1922 to artist Karl Knaths, Agnes became a major influence on his work and introduced him into the New York art scene. The three of them lived together for the rest of Weinrich's life.
Text courtesy askart.com