Provencetown Art Association. The Provincetown Art Association and Museum in Provincetown, Massachusetts is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.It was founded as the Provincetown Art Association on August 22, 1914, with the mission of collecting, preserving, exhibiting and educating people about the work of Cape Cod artists.
These included Impressionists, Modernists, and Futurists as well as artists working in more traditional styles. The original building at 460 Commercial Street, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The organization changed its name to the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in 1970. As a professional association, it represents a membership of around 700 contemporary artists.Its growing permanent collection includes over 4,000 works.
The museum mounts multiple exhibitions per year. Hawthorne teaches a plein air class The Provincetown Art Colony is the oldest of the nineteenth-century summer art colonies on the East Coast.
The first art school there was established in 1899 by Charles Hawthorne. On August 22, 1914, a group of prominent artists along with local business men and women established the Provincetown Art Association. The founding officers included President William H. Young; Vice Presidents Charles Hawthorne, William Halsall and E. Ambrose Webster; Acting Vice President Mrs. Eugene Watson; Treasurer Mrs. William H. Young; Recording Secretary Nina