TOD LINDENMUTH

Pioneers of the PROVINCETOWN PRINT

By | Bill Evaul

Tod Lindenmuth (1885-1976) was born in Allentown, PA and died in Jacksonville in 1976 at age 91. He studied with Robert Henri at the New York School of Art in Manhattan. Around 1914 he came to Provincetown to study with E. Ambrose Webster and George Elmer Browne. He was one of the founders of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum where he exhibited regularly from 1915 onward. He also was among the first artists to join the “Six Founders” of the Provincetown Printers and contributed work to their first Provincetown exhibition, in 1916, at Ambrose Webster’s studios on Commercial Street. In 1928, Lindenmuth served on the jury for the Provincetown Art Association’s “First Modernistic Exhibition.”

Tod Lindenmuth, Along the Shore c. 1916, white-line woodblock print. Courtesy of Estate of Tod Lindenmuth.

Lindenmuth was a proficient oil painter but he is known predominantly as a linocut printmaker, having made only a few white-line color woodcuts. However, he too had developed some innovative techniques for relief printing including the use of multiple colors on one block.

In Provincetown he met and married artist and illustrator Elizabeth Boardman Warren. In the 1920’s the couple began visiting St. Augustine, Florida where they became founders of the St. Augustine Art Association.