Packard Gallery Archives

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

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.

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.