Word: wellfleet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bishop Pike, then dean of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, tried the experiment during a Cape Cod vacation. He persuaded his summer congregation in Wellfleet, Mass, to build a church, designed by Finnish-born Olav Hammarstrom, which groups 350 people around an octagonal sanctuary, and no churchgoer is more than six rows from the altar rail. Last year Bishop Pike invited Architect Hammarstrom to the Pacific Coast to design a brother church, St. Anselm's in Lafayette, Calif., where some 450 parishioners assemble within the octagonal space, none more than seven rows from the altar...
...Wellfleet, Mass...
Much in demand as a designer of exhibitions, books, and animated murals in stained glass for commercial buildings, Kepes reserves his best hours for painting of the stillest sort, often at the studio of his house in Wellfleet, Cape Cod. He coats each large canvas with thin color, then drips onto it what appear to be blobs, twigs and trailings of plastic glue. Onto the glue he drips sand from the beach. Then he works in gobs of bright color with a palette knife, and finally glazes over most of the picture with more thin sheets of color. The results...