Featuring work from artists such as Albert Alcalay, Doris Hall, Vera Andrus and others, along with literary contributions from Vincent Ferrini, Four Winds captured the ethos of the Rocky Neck art scene during the 1950’s.
Modernists like Gregory Smith, Helen Stein, Nell Blaine, Mary Shore and Gordon Goetemann headline a cast of artists whose legacy is that of exploring fresh subject matter and working in new mediums. The list of featured artists included sculptors, lithographers, painters, enamelists, photographers, poets and writers—many of whom exhibited their work in the Cape Ann Festival of the Arts.
Related lecturers include writer and Gloucester native Peter Anastas, who spent his youth on Rocky Neck, and Ammiel Alcalay, son of artist Albert. The Museum collaborated with the Rocky Neck Art Colony to offer a walking tour of the present-day Rocky Neck neighborhood as well.
The Museum hosted Holy Local: Vincent Ferrini’s Literary Legacy, a panel appointed by The Gloucester Writers Center to introduce new and ongoing scholarship on Ferrini’s literary accomplishments, on June 22 at 1:00 p.m. A gallery talk on Ferrini’s work was held on September 14.
Catalog from the exhibition is available in the Museum gift shop or online
Four Winds: The Arts & Letters of Rocky Neck in the 1950s
Image credit: Albert Alcalay (1917-2008), Night Fleet (detail), 1956. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Cape Ann Museum. Gift of the family of Albert Alcalay, 2013.
Image credit: Albert Alcalay (1917-2008), Night Fleet (detail), 1956. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Cape Ann Museum. Gift of the family of Albert Alcalay, 2013.
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