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
art@galleryehva.com

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WHAT WE DO WHEN WE
DON'T MAKE ART

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Gallery Ehva
74 Shank Painter Road
Provincetown, MA 02657
508 487-0011
© 2009-2011 Gallery Ehva
All rights reserved.

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Early Provincetown Art

Oliver Newberry Chaffee, Jr. (1881-1944)

 

Oliver Chaffee, Gourds and Corn, c. 1925, watercolor on paper, 17 x 20

 

Oliver Chaffee, Dunes and Deer, 1927, watercolor on paper, 10 x 12.5, signed LR SOLD

 

Oliver Chaffee, Looking Toward Race Point, 1941, watercolor on paper, 12 x 20, signed LR

 

Education
Art Students League, with Hawthorne
New York School of Art, with Henri and Chase
Detroit Fine Arts Academy
Academie Julian

Exhibitions
Detroit Art Institute, 1908, 1933, 1946
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1912
Armory Show, 1913
Salon d’Automne, Paris, 1913, 1924
Art Institute of Chicago, 1919, 1928, 1932, 1942
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Brooklyn Museum, 1927
Museum of Modern Art, 1933
Worcester Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art, 1977
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1986
Taft Museum, 1991

Member
Society of Independent Artists
Provincetown Art Association

Collections
Smithsonian Institution
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Provincetown Town Hall

Commentary
Oliver Chaffee was one of the most important and influential early modern painters and teachers in the art colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Chaffee’s early work was strongly influenced by his training in New York with Robert Henri, as well as his training in Paris at the Academie Julian, where he was undoubtedly familiar with the contemporary Fauvist work of Matisse and Derain. Chaffee’s work in the teens represents some of the earliest and most accomplished “Fauvist” work done in the United States.

Three of Chaffee’s canvases were included in the all-important Armory Show of 1913 in New York. All three were Fauvist landscapes. His work was well received in the company of works by Matisse, Picasso, Hartley, Marin, and Maurer. One critic’s review of the show compared Chaffee’s work with that of Maurer, and praised the “effect of intense sunlight” in his work.

[courtesy ACME Fine Art, Boston]