Backstreet, Provincetown, 1924

Provenance

D. Clinton Hynes Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois

Private collection, Illinois

Private collection, Rhode Island

Sale, Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut, October 27, 2016, lot 64, from above

Private collection, Milford, Connecticut

Sale, Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut, April 29, 2021, lot 123, from above

Exhibited

Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois, Pauline Palmer: American Impressionist, 1867–1938, March 10–April 8, 1984, no. 16

Literature

(Likely) Pauline Palmer: American Impressionist, 1867–1938 (Peoria, IL: Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1984), n.p., no. 16.

Note

Palmer lived mainly in Chicago and then in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in her later years. Palmer’s paintings of Provincetown summer streets are emblematic of the era, when it was still a quaint artist’s colony and not yet a busy tourist destination.