The Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture Series welcomes artists, art historians, curators, and authors to speak at PAAM during the summer, both in conjunction with exhibitions and as independent scholars.
Curator Joe Fiorello will be joined by Edwina Rissland to discuss her late father’s exhibition, Revisitations, for this Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture.
Edwin E. Rissland first came to Provincetown at the age of twenty-three to study painting at the summer school run by George Elmer Browne. He returned nearly every summer thereafter and, over more than sixty years, explored and painted scenes throughout the town and its surrounding landscape. In those early summers, he came to know Provincetown intimately—from the harbor and tidal flats to the moors, dunes, and hills beyond Bradford Street. Certain places—the harbor, Shank Painter Pond, and the West End—became enduring subjects in his work. Some of these landscapes have since changed or disappeared, while others remain much as they were.
