Preservation Hall

Please join your friends from Wellfleet Preservation Hall for two great events next week. On Tuesday August 5th at 8pm in the gardens behind the Hall, "Outer Space Night" with free movies for the entire family.

On Saturday August 9th they will be holding a golf tournament at the Chequessett Neck Yacht & Country Club, in Wellfleet. Come after the tournament for a fun filled evening which includes a silent auction and a dinner/dance. Reservations are encouraged.

Michael Coyne

Michael Coyne's show, "Along the Shore," opens this Saturday in Orleans. Michael's professional career as an artist began with freelance illustration, product design and print work for books. This led to mural installations in private homes and large commissioned pieces for corporate clients such as Miller Beer, Kajunga Arts, and F-1 Boston.

Working in a representational style, Michael depicts the rocky shorelines and salt marshes from the South Shore to Cape Cod and the Islands. This is his first exhibit at Left Bank Gallery.

Please drop by and say hello to Michael this Saturday evening from 6 to 8, at 8 Cove Road, Orleans. The show will continue through August 8.

above: "Aground" oil, 9" x 12"

Mary Bourke

This painting makes me want to put a screen porch on my house right this minute.

You can see all Mary Bourke's new paintings at her show "Just Once," which opens this Saturday. Paintings for the show are posted on our website.

Please come by and say hello to Katie and Mary at an artist reception from 6 to 8pm on Saturday, at 25 Commercial Street, Wellfleet. See you there!

Katie Trinkle Legge

Here's Katie, hard at work in her studio. She's getting ready for her show, "Table Tops and Other Places," which opens Saturday.

And totally unrelated, did anyone else notice that the painting titled "Five Cherries" has six cherries in it? Is she messing with us? All the paintings for the show have been posted to the web, so you can take a sneak peek now.

Leslie Thompson

A new collection of work by Leslie Thompson just opened at the Commercial Street gallery in Wellfleet.

Leslie studied art and ceramics at the University of Chicago, as well as the Caulfield Institute in Australia. Her art has been featured in several publications, including Architectural Digest and American Craft. She has participated in numerous juried exhibitions around the country, notably the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. and the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, California.

We've just posted the whole collection on our website, including more information about how the vessels are made.

Fine Art and Travel Auction

On July 27th there will be an auction to benefit Wellfleet Preservation Hall, our community cultural center. Left Bank artists Arthur Bauman, Michael Davis, Jim Holland, Steven Kennedy, Rosalie Nadeau and Fay Shutzer will all have work in the auction.

For more information, including a complete list of artists and travel destinations, go to the Wellfleet Preservation Hall website: www.wellfleetpreservationhall.org

artist sightings!

Here's Robert Vickrey at Jim Holland's opening.

Robert Vickrey (born 1926) is a Massachusetts artist and author who specializes in the ancient medium of egg tempera. His paintings are surreal dreamlike visions of sunset shadows of bicycles, nuns in front of mural-painted brick walls, and children playing.

Robert Vickrey graduated from the Pomfret School then received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Fine Arts. His works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro.

(Wikipedia)