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.
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.
To view this series with the narrative CLICK ON BOLD TEXT HERE: Your text to link here...
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.
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 froma 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."
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.
To view this series with the narrative CLICK ON BOLD TEXT HERE: Your text to link here...
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.
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 froma 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."