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“I know that a painting is most success- ful when someone feels something about it, rather than just being able to say, ‘Oh, I know where that house is in town.’” “I like to think of my works almost as being like little poems of a place,” he says. Early morning sun, rays that he could be seeing as he is getting ready for bed, might illuminate the steep pitches of a streetscape of houses, each dwelling registering a dif- ferent amount of the light and resulting shadow.

A wet street at night curves its way through town, the lamplights in the neigh- boring houses bespeaking coziness and shel- ter from the elements. A single streetlight might illuminate a pointing traffic arrow stenciled to the pavement. A scene in Man- hattan might show a pre-war apartment building stenciled against a moonlit sky. Palm trees in Hollywood, appearing lonely themselves, send shadows to the pavement.

Dowd’s paintings affect and have an effect on a viewer. Even though there may be no figures present, a sense of a narrative is being subtly expressed. You are meant discovered to feel the atmosphere of what is shown by him. Even though Dowd, a native of West- ern Massachusetts, has been living in Provincetown since 1983, a small town of a few thousand in the off season, where, as he relates, “every- body knows who paints, who the grocer is, who the guy is who sells the fish,” he has not exhausted his locale for material.

“It would take a lifetime for me to use up what is here. Every day I find a surprise in the town. Different light falls on something one day than on the day before. I might see a dif- ferent pattern on the street or interesting angles and geometries it takes. I hope some- times that the way I might paint something that people have seen a thousand times will make them aware of it in a new way or that they’ll see a new beauty in it from how light affects it.

I want to prove how beautiful the world is if you pay attention to it.” Although Dowd paints every day when he is in his Provincetown house, a structure that dates from the 1830s, he does travel frequently to Los Angeles and New York, the latter where he keeps an apartment. But wherever he goes, he paints what he sees. “When in Rome, I do some painting. I’m basically interested in just depicting my experience of places wherever they are.”

He purposely avoids painting figures into his landscapes and streetscapes, preferring instead to show “quiet moments of a place Above and below: Drive-In Dusk (2020); On the Beach at Night (2023). discovered Clockwise from top left: Along the Rail Yard (c. 1990s), Nearing Dawn West End (2020), Miami Evening (2010).

Edmonia Lewis sculpted her way into the art history canon. A new exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum reveals what she wanted the world to see and remember. BY ASHLEY BUSBY 34 The City of Light in the Dark The legacy of photographer Brassaï and his nocturnal wanderings through Paris in the 1940s goes on view at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet BY DAVID MASELLO 40 Always In Fashion Thomas Gainsborough wasn’t a clothing de- signer, but he knew how to paint those garbed in the fashionable wear of his time, as an exhi- bition at the Frick Collection reveals BY DAVID MASELLO 46 On The Cover: An interior shot of the Antwerp home of Boris Vervoordt and Michael James Gardner.

Photo by: Jan Liégeois 12 24 56 80 march/april 2026 ART TALK 9 OBJECT OF DESIRE 10 A Tudor-era heart-shaped gold pendant and its chain ACQUIRING HABITS 12 Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy by Artemisia Gentileschi IN PERSPECTIVE 14 AND 52 Extensive coverage of high-profile auctions, exceptional museum exhibitions, and engaging gallery shows from around the United States PROFILE 18 Boris Vervoordt of Antwerp-based Axel Veervoordt Company continues to redefine the business DISCOVERED 24 John Dowd DESTINATION 30 Venice’s Jewish Ghetto and Georgia O’Keeffe’s Ghost Ranch in New Mexico RECORD-BREAKER 56 Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave sells at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong 6 A R T & A N T I Q U E S M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 2 6 SUBSCRIBE ONLINE AT: artandantiquesmag.com FOR ADVERTISING INFO : [email protected] EDITOR David Masello CREATIVE DIRECTOR Mark Snyder COPY EDITOR Roger Harris ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR Emma C.

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