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Borkowski Collection

Borkowski

Overview

A student of history since adolescence when Mrs. Henry N. Flynt, a mentor and founder of Historic Deerfield along with her husband, arranged for me to become a guide there, my keen interest in history has grown since arriving in Provincetown in the mid-1980’s.  I have collected materials and studied the various areas that have interested me about Provincetown, regardless of their seeming randomness, which began with a chance purchase of some glass plate negatives that touched off a quest to understand the history of the art colony.  My work with the Town of Provincetown Art Collection further informed me.  Other avenues of historical exploration presented themselves during my research into the lives of Edna Boies Hopkins, Blanche Lazzell and E. Ambrose Webster.  Such work was started in preparation for monographs on these local artists by many fine art historians who I was fortunate enough to assist in their research. [More...]

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  • Arts October 1960
    Art show announcements in Arts magazine of October 1960.
    Collection: Borkowski
    Format: Text
    Subjects: Advertising, Art, and Art galleries, Commercial
  • Arts News summer 1964
    Arts News , summer 1964, article on Ibram Lassaw and a drawing of John F. Kennedy.
    Collection: Borkowski
    Format: Artwork
    Subjects: Art, Art galleries, Commercial, and Kennedy, John F.
  • Art Voice February 1964
    Art Voice , February 1964 article on Adolph Gottlieb.
    Collection: Borkowski
    Format: Artwork
    Subjects: Art and Biography
  • Art News May 1964
    Art News, May 1964, article on a fund raiser for the Congress of Racial Equality.
    Collection: Borkowski
    Format: Artwork
    Subjects: Art and Art galleries, Commercial
  • Art Voices December 1963
    Art Voices, December 1963, article by Gordon Brown which refers to Fritz Bultman.
    Collection: Borkowski
    Format: Artwork
    Subjects: Art, Art galleries, Commercial, Modernism, and Modernism (Art)
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