“Provincetown Boats” by Marston Hodgin at Truro Fine Art Studio.
These are a selection of the works by Francie Randolph, Tom Watson, Marston Hodgin and Milton Wright at the double opening on Tuesday.
Truro’s art past & present
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Drive down Depot Road in the center of Truro and it’s almost like driving back 100 years in time. Though there are more trees now and fewer farms, between the beach plum and beach roses are some of the most historic homes in town – and it has also become a center for fine art in Truro.
For the first time two different studio galleries, each located on an historic property dating back to the early 1800s, have collaborated to offer the public an art-filled evening – and a rare glimpse of both historic and contemporary Truro through painting.
This summer, Thomas A.D. Watson and Francie Randolph Artists’ Studios at 45 Depot Road, and Susan Kurtzman, owner of Truro Fine Art Studio and Jobi Pottery at 3 Depot Road, are joining forces in a gala opening – Truro’s Depot Road for Art– to be held at both locations on one evening, from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14.. Visitors can enjoy an evening filled with images of Truro today and Truro long ago.
While Watson and Randolph are representative of present-day Truro artists, Kurtzman will exhibit the work of two mid-century Truro artists, Marston Hodgin and Milton Wright.
On the contemporary front, Watson and Randolph will host their eighth annual Open Studio at 45 Depot Road featuring both artists’ latest works. Watson will be showing his newest collection of oil paintings featuring Truro landscapes and seascapes. An avid gardener and fisherman, Watson captures the rural beauty of the Outer Cape today. His work has been enthusiastically collected since he first began exhibiting nearly 20 years ago– his recent July exhibition of Adirondack paintings in upstate New York nearly sold out in a matter of hours. Randolph, a DNA Gallery artist for over 10 years, will be showing contemporary work that suspends photographs within encaustics. “I’m interested in capturing a moment in time with my photographs,” she explains. “I then embed them within encaustic medium. The fluidity of the wax surrounds my image and hardens, creating a visual timeline – layers and layers that begin to obscure and distance us from the moment we want to see.”
Truro Fine Art Studio, at 3 Depot Road, explores Truro’s rich artistic history by exhibiting paintings by Milton Wright (1920-2005) and Marston Hodgin (1903-2003). Hodgin founded the Fine Arts Department at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and Wright was one of his students. Lifelong friends and colleagues, they both began painting in Provincetown and Truro in the 1940s and eventually moved their families to North Truro where they worked out of their own home studios. Wright is best known for his “colorist” style; his early Provincetown and Truro town and landscapes are widely collected. Hodgin is best known for his landscape watercolors. Both painted familiar locations on the Outer Cape.
Aug 9th, 2007
