Provincetown Artists: Michael Mazur

Michael Mazur, Pond Edge II, 1999, oil on canvas, 33" x 31.5"

I was feeling like it was time to get some more color up on the site. Now that, my friends, is color. The late Michael Mazur (1935 - 2009) was most known for his lithograph and monotype prints, but he also worked in oils and other media. He split his time between Cambridge and P-town, where he taught and served on the board of the Fine Arts Work Center. Indeed, he was revered as much for his teaching as for his art making. My wife and I own a print from this same period, done in the same style, which nods in its abstract way to the tradition of Chinese landscape painting. It's fair to say that he was one of New England's finest artists, and perhaps one of our nation's, too.