Exhibit at the Munroe Gallery, Concord, MA
04th July 2024
My show "Following Henry - From Walden to Cape Cod" has opened in downtown Concord and will be on exhibit through July. The Thoreau Society included the show in their Annual Gathering agenda, and I gave a gallery talk focusing on my recent series of images shot on Cape Cod.
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My Cape series includes a narrative that weaves my Outer Cape experiences with some of Henry Thoreau's commentary found in his book Cape Cod.
I included some materials on Cape Cod shipwrecks in my exhibit. As I was preparing the show I remembered an unidentified period photograph I purchased 25 years ago at a yard sale. Fantasizing that the image could be a Cape wreck I started searching for a comparable image.
Bingo -- after several Google searches, an image appeared from a book published in 1902 with the title "Lifesavers of Cape Cod." The book reproduction had no identification other than "The Matilda Buck." Using this name I found a Pinterest image of the Matilda Buck from a different vantage point and the 1890 date. I was pleased also that the posting claimed a Provincetown, MA location, and noted that all aboard had been rescued.
The Matilda Buck as found in the 1902 publication "Lifesavers of Cape Cod."
I also own a period print of this image that has no identification. Scroll down to see my yard sale find (small brown frame) in display case.
The Matilda Buck, 1890 Provincetown.
Pulled from a Pinterest posting hoping to locate the whereabouts of the salvage remains from this ship.
Below some show installation shots. I remembered also a famous Winslow Homer painting
"The Life Line" depicting a woman being rescued from a shipwreck. I found detailed instructions of how these metal lines were installed and used to transfer those shipwrecked from boat to shore, and a map of the hundred known named wrecks along Cape Cod -"Marine Disasters of Cape Cod."
Follow this link: https://amyragusartist.photium.com/following-henry-cape-cod-massachusetts
My Cape series includes a narrative that weaves my Outer Cape experiences with some of Henry Thoreau's commentary found in his book Cape Cod.
I included some materials on Cape Cod shipwrecks in my exhibit. As I was preparing the show I remembered an unidentified period photograph I purchased 25 years ago at a yard sale. Fantasizing that the image could be a Cape wreck I started searching for a comparable image.
Bingo -- after several Google searches, an image appeared from a book published in 1902 with the title "Lifesavers of Cape Cod." The book reproduction had no identification other than "The Matilda Buck." Using this name I found a Pinterest image of the Matilda Buck from a different vantage point and the 1890 date. I was pleased also that the posting claimed a Provincetown, MA location, and noted that all aboard had been rescued.
The Matilda Buck as found in the 1902 publication "Lifesavers of Cape Cod."
I also own a period print of this image that has no identification. Scroll down to see my yard sale find (small brown frame) in display case.
The Matilda Buck, 1890 Provincetown.
Pulled from a Pinterest posting hoping to locate the whereabouts of the salvage remains from this ship.
Below some show installation shots. I remembered also a famous Winslow Homer painting
"The Life Line" depicting a woman being rescued from a shipwreck. I found detailed instructions of how these metal lines were installed and used to transfer those shipwrecked from boat to shore, and a map of the hundred known named wrecks along Cape Cod -"Marine Disasters of Cape Cod."