Provincetown Dunes by Anne Packard
Original signed oil on board by the reigning Grand Dame of Cape Cod art,Anne Packard.
Her mystically infused ,light drenched paintings of the Cape & Islands have made
her work beloved and her internationally famous.
Based on the style and palette I suspect this is an older Packard maybe late 20th c. or early 21st.
Colors are great.
Signed lower right
Sight size 5 X 10",with frame ~71/2x 12 1/2"
In her gallery this size ~$1800-2000 plus an additional $100-150 in tax & shipping
CLASSIC,"HARD TO FIND" PACKARD AT BARGAIN PRICE!
Bio per askart archives:
Painter, Anne Packard was born in 1933 in Hyde Park, New
Jersey and spent her summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts where she
moved in 1977, after raising five children.
Her early work was
painting on wood panels and weathered shingles, but mediums now include
oil, monotypes and giclee. She attended Bard College, and studied with
the late Phil Malicoat. Packard has traveled extensively, and
locations include the Outer Cape, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Mexico.
Selected publications, Art
Business News, Associated Press, Channel 7, Boston, Home and Garden
Media, New York Times, Art New England, The Boston Globe, Cape Cod Life,
Cape Cod Antiques and Art, Fine Life of America, Trenton Times.
Collections
include: New Jersey State Museum, Scudder,Stevens and Clark,
Provincetown Art Ass., Robert Motherwell, Bank of Boston, Polo Inc.,
Deloitte & Touche, Diane Sawyer and Mike Nichols, Hill Holiday
Advertising and Oglethorpe University Museum, Atlanta GA. Major
Retrospective May 2006 Cape Cod Museum of Fine Art.
Reviews published on the website of the artist include:
"She
doesn't paint sunshine but likes skies with turbulent clouds. Her
paintings have tremendous power,and she portrays the strength of nature
in the windswept dunes, the force of the quiet seas, the light striking
through the storm clouds, the intensity of night coming across the
water. There is a quality in those paintings that draws the viewer in to
wonder a little, to contemplate the viewpoint. Packard says that she
wants the viewer to see whatever he or she wants to see in them.
Catherine Fallin
Cape Cod Life - September 1995
'I
want to create in my dune paintings, ' she says, 'that privileged
isolation. And awe. I am in awe out there. It's like being on the
surface of the moon. Yet, it is not lonely in my dunes. My dunes wrap me
in light, in warmth, in safety.' She sees a double nature to the dunes,
viewing them on one hand as motherly woman, wrapping the lone voyager
in tender shawls. Or in distinct contrast, she'll portray them as
sensual. 'My dunes are very female. Women's bodies are beautiful. I love
the shapes, the contours. The dunes are women's thighs and curves of
hips.'
Carolyn Edelmann
The Cape Cod Compass, 40th Anniversary Issue - 1986
"Anne
Packard's paintings are like pieces of driftwood washed up on the shore
- each seems to bear a history of its own and will tell you about
itself if you're willing to spend the time...(her) paintings reward with
an abundance of surprises and rich, imaginative color. They aren't
your average day at the beach."
Paul Parcellin,
ArtNewEngland