Vintage Provincetown Hand Written Queer Postcard 1950’s
Wonderful Mid Century Handwritten Postcard depicting street portrait artist at work. Entitled on verso ‘Sidewalk Cafe Located in the Center of Provincetown on Commercial Street with Portrait Artist Harvey John Dodd, Cape Cod, Mass. This is a Favourite Meeting Place of Many Famous People’ (Color Photo by Hugo Poisson). Printed Berkley, California’. Measures 5.5 X 3.5 inches. Handwriiten in black ink: ‘Rich- Harvey’s old spot before his gallery. Johnny watched him drawing a portrait (cuddled on his knee) and asked why he wasn’t drawing the man’s arms – everyonew laughed. M. xxx’. A lovely & fab queer treasure. Asking $50.
Artist Information:
Harvey John Dodd (1933-2011). Dodd is known for his coastal and marine works. He maintained the Harvey Dodd Gallery, a fixture in Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod, since 1959, claiming it as the oldest gallery in P’town. The artist worked in watercolor, pastel, oil, and mixed media. Many works that have appeared on the market have been small or even miniature.
“Harvey Dodd, a Provincetown institution since 1959, surprses us each year with fresh expressions of his seemingly boundless vision. He’s among Cape Cod’s primier watercolorists, working entirely from his imagination. His pastels and oils are remarkable as well. His compositional skill is reinforced with a background in abstraction resulting in a departure from the ordinary that is, at once, evocative, alive, imaginative, innovative and fresh.” — Provincetown Art Guide