Anne Packard is the quintessential Cape Cod painter. She creates beautiful, luminescent landscapes in oil. Unlike a lot of examples in the genre, her works are skillfully exquisite. The best place to view Anne’s work is in Provincetown at the Packard Gallery, a charming converted New England church. She shares the space s with her daughters, painters Cynthia Packard (read my blog post on Cynthia here) and Leslie Packard. The Packards descend from a long line of painters, which include Anne Packard’s grandfather, Max Bohm, who is a well-known Impressionist painter who went to Provincetown back in 1916.
Below is an oil painting by Anne Packard that my husband and I purchased a few years ago. It hangs over our living room fireplace. (Sorry for the inexpert photographic quality). I have also been loving browsing through her newest coffee table book, Anne Packard: Introspective (Skylark Press, $95), that her very kind publicist left on my doorstep (literally). Scroll down for a sampling of her works.
Turquoise Seascape
Stormy Beach
Two Dories
Adrift
Seaside
A Summer Place
Green Dory
Empty Chair
Anne Packard
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2 Comments
October 19, 2009 at 8:27 am
you can see how skill went into these
October 19, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Very, very lovely work. Thanks for the intro. I’m particularly fond of her soft colors and even softer edges. It’s soothing without being banal or commercial.