Cape Ann Modern features 20th century works by modernist artists

Cape Ann Modern is a special exhibition drawn from Cape Ann Museum’s permanent collection and spotlights the works of modernist artists who found inspiration in the region during the mid-20th century. Included are works by more than 22 artists including Zygmund Jankowski, Sam Feinstein, Elaine Wing, and George Aarons. Recent acquisitions on view will include works by Thorpe Feidt, Celia Eldridge, and Vivian Berman.

On exhibit will be works by the modernists who found inspiration here on Cape Ann, dating from the mid-1930s through the 1990s and a critical mass from the 1950s. Among them are: Roger Martin (1925-2015), Dehirsh Margules (1899-1965), Tom O’Hara (1920-1981), Vivian Berman (1926-2016), Bernard Chaet (1924-2012), Sam Feinstein (1915-2003), Alfred Levitt (1894-2000), Elaine Wing (b. 1931), Jan Matulka (1890-1972), Robert Anderson (1934-2016), Thorpe Feidt (b. 1940), Celia Eldridge, Zygmund Jankowski (1925-2009), Albert Alcalay (1917-2008), and George Aarons (1896-1980).