Provincetown
Gallery Ehva
Contemporary & Early Provincetown Art
Ewa Nogiec, Director
Gallery hours:
Mon-Tue 11am-6pm
Wed-Sun 11am-8pm
provincetown
contemporary artists
James Bakker
Cid Bolduc
Rachel Brown
Daniel Cleary
Barbara Cohen
Didier Corallo
Daniel Dejean
Donna Dodson
Rob DuToit
William Evaul
Jenny Fragosa
Lorrie Fredette
Edward Giobbi
Wendelin Glatzel
Julie Gorn
Iren Handschuh
Myrna Harrison
Alicia Henry
Jenny Humphreys
Leslie Gillette Jackson
Zehra Khan
Jane Kogan
René Lamadrid
MP Landis
Bill Liebeskind
Jay McDermott
Kevin McDermott
Andy Moerlein
Ewa Nogiec
Fawn Potash
Meg Shields
Richard E. Smith
Sterck/Rozo
Lisa Ventre
Michael Walden
Rob Westerberg
Special Collection:
Richard Baker
Sculpture Garden (outside):
A Boat for the Impossible Journey: Andy Moerlein
Elevation: Andy Moerlein
Listening for Lightning: Andy Moerlein
Wind: Donald Gerola
74 Shank Painter Road
P.O. Box 1426
Provincetown, MA 02657
508-487-0011
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William Harry Warren Bicknell | Joseph Birren | Evelin Bodfish Bourne | Peter Busa | Frank Carson | Oliver Chaffee | Jim Forsberg | Dorothy Lake Gregory | Marion Hawthorne | Marsden Hartley | Blanche Lazzell | Joseph Kaplan | Karl Knaths | Doris Lindo Lewis | William Littlefield | Dorothy Loeb | Ross E. Moffett | Olga Sears | Hyman Shrand | Jack Tworkov | Marcus Waterman | Agnes Weinrich | D.C. Wyman
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]