Word: provincetown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sketches and paints in near-professional manner but has not lost his amateur standing as an artist. He writes wherever he happens to be, finds crowded Provincetown on Cape Cod as good a place to work as any. There in his harborside cottage he lives between travels, with his handsome wife. (She writes for women's magazines under the name of Katherine Smith...
...liking for professional discussion of his own or his contemporaries' work. He considers writing a full-time job like any other. His own working habits are as steady as a farmer's. He gets up early, works through the morning wherever he happens to be. In Provincetown he swims before lunch, goes sailing every afternoon, takes little or no part in Provincetown's art-colony doings. Since he is traveling most of the time his household has something of the air of a dwelling that is just being moved into, with trunks and crates crowding the back...
...crusade took many forms, plunged aside against many a threatening windmill, but never faltered. She founded a Montessori school at Provincetown, where she spent her summers when she could. She went to Europe to report the 1915 International Congress of Women in Amsterdam. She ventured through War-time Germany just after the sinking of the Lusitania. She toured the French devastated areas to find out how the civilians were making out. She got home to find her husband dying of cancer...
...about 75 canvases a year. The Grand Central Art Galleries, his Manhattan agents, never keep a Waugh canvas long in stock, wish they had more painters like him. Surf, sky and rocks are his only subjects. These he knows so well that he no longer bothers to leave his Provincetown, Mass, studio to look at them. However, all Waugh seascapes are not alike. Ante Meridian shows a wave breaking against a cliff in the right foreground. Post Meridian had waves breaking on rocks in the centre foreground. Tropic Seas had the rocks in the distance. In Morning Tide, Mrs. Logan...
...first play is "In the Zone", a drama by Eugene O'Neill, and the best known of his "S. S. Glencair" series written at Provincetown...