ARTmonday: Cynthia Packard

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Cynthia Packard is a Provincetown artist whose mother, Anne Packard, is an established landscape painter and whose grandfather, Max Bohm, was a well-known painter. She graduated from Mass College of Art with a degree in sculpture, and subsequently studied painting in Provincetown with Fritz Bultman.

I really love Cynthia’s work, with which I became acquainted when I first visited my husband’s family on the Cape. The Packards have their own gallery in Provincetown, in an old church. The building is quite lovely. (Cynthia also shows at Chase Gallery in Boston.)

About nine years ago, I purchased a small painting by Cynthia Packard, using funds I had set aside from stock I received at AOL. I still love the painting, which is of her daughter Emma. Cynthia often paints her children; she has four.

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Cynthia’s current work is fantastic, especially the large scale nudes. (Unfortunately those cost about as much as a small car.) Here are some photos I took this weekend at the gallery, as well as images from the Packard Gallery website.

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P1010060left: Departure; right: Eternal

depature 36x60 18,000Departure

CPeternalEternal


studio nude

Studio Nude

sisters

Sisters

emmaEmma

in the lightIn the Light

Picture 3

(a new work)

Picture 5(another new work)


smaller gallery

Clockwise: Boudoir, Pink Lace, (unidentified), In Thought

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in thoughtIn Thought


Pink LacePink Lace


Turquoise LaceTurquoise Lace

flowers in galleryPink Roses II

Author: StyleCarrot

Marni Elyse Katz is a design writer and editor who lives in Boston and Cape Cod with her husband, two sons, and a cat. She blogs about design at www.stylecarrot.com

4 thoughts on “ARTmonday: Cynthia Packard”

  1. Wonderful artist!! I have been admiring your work for the past few years. I find your paintings inspirational. I am a painter also influenced by the impressionists yet expressing more of a personal statement. I love the textures and freedom to break all the rules and still maintain a classical reference to form and subject. I can not give you enough praise. I graduated B.U. MFA 1981 painting major.

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