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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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  • Art in Flight
    Post card promoting a Cape Air Cessna 402 painted by famed airbrush artist Jurek.
    Collection: Borkowski
    Format: Artwork
    Subjects: Advertising and Art
  • 2012 Vice President Joe and Dr. Jill Biden Reception at Pilgrim Monument
    Invitation to a reception with Vice President Joe Biden on August 26, 2012 at Pilgrim Monument...
    Collection: Borkowski
    Format: Text
    Subjects: Provincetown (Mass.)--History--21st century
  • Judith Shahn Exhibition Postcard
    Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA announcement of an exhibition by Judith Shahn.
    Collection: Borkowski
    Format: Text
    Subjects: Advertising, Art, Art galleries, Commercial, Truro (Mass.)--Description and travel, and Truro (Mass.)--History--20th century
  • Views of Historic Provincetown, c. 1912.
    Historic photographs of Provincetown circa 1912.
    Collection: Borkowski
    Format: Artwork
    Subjects: Fishermen, Harbors, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Highland Light (U.S), Peaked Hill Bars Station, Pilgrim Monument, Race Point--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Town Crier, Town Hall, and Railroad Avenue (Provincetown, Mass.)
  • "The Tradition of the Provincetown Print" PAAM exhibition checklist
    Provincetown Art Association and Museum The Tradition of the Provincetown Print, May through...
    Collection: Borkowski
    Format: Artwork
    Subjects: Advertising, Art, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Art galleries, Commercial, and Art Museums
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