Paths to Modernism

PATHS TO M O D ER N I S M

A P R I L 25 - MAY 30, 2 025

PAT HS TO MO D ERNI SM Ma s ter works b y A me ric a n A rt i s t s

N ew Yor k • Pari s • Prov i n c et ow n 1 90 0 - 1 94 0 C U R ATO R

James Keny

APRIL 25 - MAY 30, 2025

Front Cover: Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt, The Art Student, the Painting Class, 1916, color woodcut, 11 7/8” x 11” Opposite Page: Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt, Hero (Provincetown), c. 1916, color woodcut, 12” x 12” 2

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Mildred McMillen Christmas Greetings, 1918 4

Woodcut on paper 10 ½” x 12 3/8”

A year and a half ago, Tim and I began working with a major print dealer in New IN T RO D U C TI O N

A year and a half ago, Tim and I began working with a major print dealer in New York representing a private Eastern collector’s estate.

It includes an assortment of striking masterworks by the artists active in Provincetown during WWI and a few years beyond. We are now thrilled to be able to present 40 of these remarkable objects.

Many of these works are extremely rare, classic examples of the oeuvre. Impressions of several are held by the world’s leading museums including the Metropolitan Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, National Gallery and Art Institute of Chicago. And recently, several objects from the show were exhibited in a groundbreaking exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, entitled Blanche Lazzell and the Color Woodcut. We have also augmented this selection with a few other outstanding examples by these artists and their peers.

I hope you can join us to view these iconic Modernist objects.

James Keny

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Alice Schille Woman Sewing, 1902 Watercolor 14 ¾” x 17”

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JAPONISME

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Arthur Wesley Dow Dories on the Shore, c. 1895 Color woodcut 6 ¼” x 3 ½” 8

Alice Schille

Italian Street Scene, c. 1920-1925 Watercolor 5 3/8”x 4 ½”

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Edna Boies Hopkins

Purple Daisy, c. 1907-09 Color woodcut 11” x 7 ¼”

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Edna Boies Hopkins

Bramble (Blackberry), c. 1907-08 Color woodcut 10 7/8” x 7 ¼”

Ethel Mars Woman at Piano, c. 1904-1908 Color woodcut 7” x 7 3/8”

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Bror Julius Olsson The Branch, 1906 Color woodcut 11 1/8” x 8”

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Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt Lady at Piano, 1906 Color woodcut 8” x 10”

Ethel Mars

Two Mice, c. 1903-04 Color woodcut 4 1/8” x 4 ¼”

Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt

The Tree (The Tree Spring, Grey Tree), 1906 Color woodcut 12 1/8” x 9 3/8”

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“. . . Hale’s drawings, created primarily in the graphic media of charcoal, as well as chalk and pencil, are among the most beautiful and most subtle of their generation. Hale concentrated, as did the majority of her contemporaries among the Boston School of artists of the time, upon domestic interiors, a subject which also proved the principal domain of many women artists of her time, such as Mary Cassatt. . . . Hale’s drawings resonate with silence; her work speaks in a quiet voice, concentrating more than many of her contemporaries upon the single figure . . .”

William H. Gerdts, PhD Professor Emeritus of Art History Graduate School of the City University of New York Expert on American Impressionism and The Boston School

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Apple Blossoms and

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estcott Hale d Narcissus, 1912 oal on paper ¾” x 22 5/8”

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Post Impr

Ethel Mars

Nice, c. 1913

Color woodcut 7 ¾” x 8 3/8”

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Ethel Mars

Seated Woman with Child, c. 1 Color woodcut 8 7/8” x 8 7/8”

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Ethel Mars Au Jardin, c. 1913 Color woodcut 8 5/8” x 7 5/8”

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Ethel Mars

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Le Serin, c. 1913 Color woodcut 7 ¾” x 6 7/8”

Ethel Mars La Terrace, c. 1913 Color woodcut 9 ¼ x 8 ¾ inches

Ethel Mars

Woman Tending Flower Pots c. 1913 Color woodcut 10 3/8” x 8 ¾”

Ethel Mars

Children in the Snow,

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c. 1908-13 Color woodcut 9 3/8” x 8 ¾”

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Ethel Mars

Garden Party

Color woodcut 9 5/8” x 9”

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Eth Gardening, Provincetown, c.

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hel Mars . 1915-18 woodcut 7/8” x 11”

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Edna Boies Hopkins

Yellow Dahlia (Yellow Splendor), c. 1915 Color woodcut 7 ¾” x 9”

Edna Boies Hopkins Saucy Dahlia, c.1915 Color woodcut 7 ¼” x 9”

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Edna Boies Hopkins Hollyhocks, c. 1910-13 Color woodcut 10 7/8” x 7 3/8”

Karl Knaths

Geranium at Night Window, 1932 Color woodcut 7 7/8” x 5”

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Ada Gilmore Chaffee

Walking Dog, Provincetown, c. 1917-18 Color woodcut 9 7/8” x 9 5/8”

Ada Gilmore Chaffee

Walking to Wellfleet (Gossip), c. 1916 Color woodcut 9 ¼ x 9 7/8”

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Maud Squire

Clamdiggers, Provincetown, c. 1917 Color woodcut 10 3/8” x 9 3/8”

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Maud Squire

Clamdigger, c. 1916-17 Color woodcut 10 3/8” x 9 3/8”

Maud Squire

Coming Home, c. 1917 Color woodcut 10 ½” x 9 ½”

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Edna Boies Hopkins

Merry Xmas from Cape Cod, c. 1917-20 Color woodcut 4 ½” x 3 ½”

Edna Boies Hopkins

Studios in the Wharf, c. 1915-16 Color woodcut 7 7/8” x 9 “

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Gustave Baumann

Provincetown

Color woodcut 9 ½”x 11 1/4”

Gustave Baumann

Singing Woods (Singing Trees),

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1928 Color woodcut 12 7/8” x 12 7/8”

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Alice Schille

Row of Trees c. 1925 32

Watercolor 17 ½” x 20 ½”

Alice Schille

Zinnias, c. 1920 Watercolor 17 ½” x 20 ½”

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Alice Schille

Mediterranean Hilltown, c. 1920-25 34

Watercolor on paper 20 ½” x 17 ½”

Alice Schille

The Garden Path c. 1915 Watercolor 10” x 12 “

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Jane Peterson St. Mark’s Square, c.1920 Gouache on paper 18” x 24”

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Jane Peterson

Italian Market Scene, c.1920 Gouache on paper 17 ½” x 23 ¼”

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Top Row from left: Maud Squire, Fisherman in Green Coat, c. 1895-1920, watercolor and pencil on paper, 11 1/8” x 12 1/8”; Maud Squire, Winter at Sea, Provincetown, c. 1895-1920, color woodcut, 11 1/8” x 12”; Maud Squire, Loading in the Catch, watercolor and pencil, 12” x 11”.

Bottom Row from left: Ethel Mars, Sailboat at Low Tide, watercolor on paper, 11 7/8” x 12”; Maud Squire, Bathers, c. 1917-19, color woodcut, 9 ½” x 10 ¼”; Maud Squire, Pink Houses at Sea,, watercolor and pencil, 11 1/8” x 12 1/8”; 38

Maud Squire

Resting Fisherman, c. 1895-20

Watercolor, ink and graphite on paperd pencil on paperboard 10” x 10 ¼”

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Edna Boies Hopkins

Mountain Women (Two Women in White on Hill), 1917 Color woodcut 10 1/8” x 9 1/8”

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Edna Boies Hopkins

Mary and her Grandmother, 1917 Color woodcut 10” x 9”

Edna Boies Hopkins

Kentucky Mountaineers, 1917 Color woodcut 10 1/8” x 9 1/8”

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CUBISM

Max Weber

Portrait, 1919-20 Blanche Lazzell

The Monongahela, 1919 Color woodcut 11 7/8”x 12”

Color woodcut 4 ¼” x 1 7/8”

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Ada Gilmore Chaffee

Provincetown Christmas, 1917 44

Color woodcut 9 7/8” x 9 7/8”

Ada Gilmore Chaffee

Hanging Quilts to Dry, 1917

White line one block color print 9 ¼” x 10 3/8”

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Raymond Jonson

Watercolor No. 7 46

Watercolor and gouache on paper, 27 ¼” x 19 ¼”

John Marin

Deer Isle, Maine, 1921 Watercolor on paper 16” x 19”

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Alice Schille Juarez, Mexico, c. 1930 Watercolor on paper 18” x 21”

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“Schille was clearly one of the earliest American artists to assimilate European modernism and to bring its influence to the United States. She discovered and understood the new movements at a profound level. In her notebooks, she praised Vincent van Gogh for ‘intensifying sunlight’ and Georges Seurat for ‘organizing his picture space architecturally.’ She especially admired Henri Matisse for ‘escaping all that was literary and photographic’ for his ‘return to naked rhythmic expression’ and for his ‘dynamic rhythms fixed in brilliantly harmonious color structure.’

Above all, Schille developed a highly original, personal style that is at once lyrical and powerful, sophisticated in technique and formal design, spare yet richly orchestrated. . .”

William H. Robinson, PhD. Curator of Modern European Art Head of the Department of European and American Painting and Sculpture Cleveland Museum of Art

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William Zorach Boat, 1916 Linocut 6 3/8” x 8 ¾”

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William Zorach Marine, 1916 Linocut 6”x 7 1/2”

William Zorach Sunrise, 1916 Linocut 11 ½” x 8 ½”

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In Association with Susan Sheehan Gallery

William Zorach

Sailing, Provincetown, 1915, Color woodcut 10 5/8”x 8 ½”