Provincetown Artists: Mary Giammarino

In addition to the abstract tradition, which I blogged about below, P-town has a rich and thriving history of what is known as American Impressionism. Impressionism is responsive to the conditions and qualities of light, and the special light is what attracts so many painters to the Outer Cape. The two most influential figures in the lineage of Provincetown Impressionism are Charles Hawthorne and Henry Hensche, both of whom painted and taught there in the early 20th century.

In recent years my wife, Lynn, has studied plein-air painting with Mary Giammarino, who, along with many other P-town painters, carries forward the practice and spirit of impression first propagated there a century ago.

Here is Mary's website. When I look at the painting posted here, I can feel summer coming.