* Over All Dimensions of Back Board 46”x 67” made of birch with poplar trim roping.*
* Hull is 32”x6” made of lace wood( on the deck), Spanish cedar, white oak, poplar, western cedar, bamboo and white pine. Brass balusters with real rope rail *
* Mast is 1 ½” x 39” made of Spanish cedar. *
* Keel is 5”x5” 1 ½” thick made of Bubinga.*
* Sails are as follows: Main sail is 15”x36” made of African mahogany, Mizzen /staysail is 9”x27” made of African mahogany, Jib is 3-d and 32”x10” made of poplar. *
* Five coats of a spar gloss finish and mounting hardware on the back of board.*
This handsome, antique-looking map of Cape Cod, and the surrounding area, can be personalized just for you or someone of your choice. It has been recreated in the 17th century look by embellishments of sea monsters, sinking ships, and ethereal characters searching for the new world. This map is a product of extensive study of the old word maps and charts, as I also hand color authentic antique maps, prints and nautical charts as part of my profession. *This map is decorative only; like the maps of the time, it is not exactly to scale.
1st birthday boy or girl mini teddy bear
Winnie the Pooh
Tigger
Sesame Street (Elmo, Oscar, the Count etc)
Care Bears
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Blues Clues
Lightning McQueen from Cars
Bart Simpson
Powerpuff Girls
Football
Congrats (graduate, new house, etc)
Wall-E
Baby shower themed cakes and/or cupcakes
Cupcakes & Mini cupcakes
Early Americana, Primitives, Painted furniture, and country antiques.
Iron stone plates, lamps, bric-a-brac, beautiful old wide boards, very primitive barn doors, early painted plank doors, Art deco green velvet couch, cupboards, tables, chairs, chair parts, 1920 porcelain Heavy sink, lots more. Artwork by Sophia Rezinikas and renowned artist Peter Gee. Silkscreens, oil paintings, collages. Prices vary greatly. Come get a piece of the Hawthorne School of Art before it is sold.
Directions: Drive Rt. 6 towards Ptown, and first entrance to town. Take first left into town at snail road, then take a right on Bradford street into town. Going down a ways, take another right onto Miller Hill Road, (where sign says dead end road.) At the end of Miller Hill road (its 29 miller hill), go to the bottom of the hill, you will see a dirt driveway and a sign for Hawthorne School of Art. Park at the top of driveway,....you will really need to call us at 646-706-3594 to find the building where the sale is taking place, it is a very big property.
I've had several customers use them as wedding favors, including myself. These are favors people will actually take home and use. Stand them up them up or lay them flat. These gems are perfect in literally any space.
Beach Boxes cost 3.00 each. Discount with larger orders.
If you interested in making your own favors, you can purchase a Beach Box Kits.
The Kits come with 20 empty boxes, and enough sand and sea treasures to make your own beautiful Beach Boxes.
Photos courtesy John Gregory estate
John Gregory at home in 1980 with some of his photographs and the camera he used.
“Calm Harbor” by John Gregory shows the former weirs in Provincetown Harbor that were used by the local fishermen.
John Gregory: Was he
Cape Cod’s own Ansel Adams?
Cape Museum show sparked
by one collector’s zeal
Gerry Desautels
BANNER CORRESPONDENT
“Old photographers never die, they just look that way,” wrote the late Provincetown photographer John “Jack” W. Gregory. The quote encapsulates the wry irreverence of a humble artist who, just five years before his death in 1992, would get around to publishing a soft-cover booklet of his best-selling black and white prints. The book, “Provincetown by the Sea,” would be his swan song, immortalizing 30 of his best-selling prints from a lifetime of work, almost sixty years of immersing himself in photographing his beloved seaside village.
As a Provincetown resident for nearly six decades, Gregory touched the lives of so many, but it took the fanaticism of an avid Boston collector to inspire a new show of the artist’s work — 13 years after Gregory’s death — opening this Saturday at the Cape Cod Museum of Art (CCMA) in Dennis. The show, entitled “John Gregory: Coastal Reflections,” hangs through May 8 and embodies the 20-piece collection of Henry Santoro, an avid art and cookbook collector and news director of Boston’s FNX Radio Network, who became enraptured with Gregory’s work after seeing one of his photos — a famous portrait of fisherman John Gaspie — in the Provincetown Seafood Cookbook.
Santoro’s enchantment with cookbooks (he’s amassed over 5,000 at his Brookline home) led him to also fall in love with Gregory’s work, which was virtually taken for granted here in his adopted hometown.
“I loved the Gaspie portrait in the book, and once I found out it was taken by Gregory, I started doing a search. I got my first piece on eBay and the race was on. Immediately I began to buy any Gregory photo or lithograph I could find,” says Santoro, a summer resident of Dennis. “Nobody captured the personality of Provincetown better than John Gregory. And he did it by focusing his camera on the landscape, the seascape and the sky. To me, Gregory was the Ansel Adams of Cape Cod.”
“We don’t have all the photographs he took, but we have most of the negatives, some of which are deteriorating,” says Gregory’s son, Kenny, a Provincetown carpenter. “He also took a great many school portraits. He was very good at portrait photography. I used to help move lighting for his portrait sittings until one day a couple came in and wanted the wife shot in the nude. I wasn’t allowed to help out on that one.
“My father and John Gaspie were great drinking buddies. They used to go to Cookie’s Tap (the current site of Lorraine’s) and drink quite a lot; he was able to talk Gaspie into growing a beard and wearing his wide-brimmed hat for his portrait which became pretty well known.”
Still, Gregory remained modest and “a little shy…preferring to quote artists and writers he considered more gifted than himself.” Born in Brooklyn in 1903, son of a hardnosed newspaper editor, Gregory flew the coop and studied at the Art Student’s League in New York City and with celebrated artist John Sloan. Gregory’s own star would rise early on, when in 1936 he was named as one of the 73 most noteworthy graphic artists in the country.
After leaving New York in the early1930s, Gregory wandered to Cape Cod and met his native Provincetown wife Adelaide Gibbs, a Boston and New York concert pianist. Eventually the newlyweds bought the Seth Nickerson House at 72 Commercial Street, the oldest house in Provincetown, built in 1746, where the Gregorys lived until both of their deaths in 1992. He shared his long-running love affair with Provincetown with his wife and with his older sister and surrogate childhood mother, Dorothy Lake Gregory, an accomplished illustrator married to famed Provincetown painter Ross Moffett.
The Gregorys had two sons, Kenneth and Jack, and the couple was faced with supporting their new family. Adelaide gave piano lessons and John took student class photos for the local schools and shot portraits of U.S. Navy men stationed on ships in Provincetown harbor during World War II. Weddings also became part of his repertoire; and together the Gregorys opened up their historic home for personal tours with commentary and a convenient pass-through the artist gallery. Candlelight piano concerts also proved popular while a tea salon fell by the wayside. The Gregorys were artists and survivors of the Depression, doing what was necessary to feed their family.
But the sensitive, poetic artist-photographer only had to shuffle over to the portrait studio in his home to capture the moods of local residents and tourists or simply cross the street and capture the forever changing and moving live canvas of water and sky along the ocean bayfront.
Perhaps the pinnacle of Gregory’s career came in 1948 when he was awarded a one-man show at the Smithsonian Institution and recognized as one of the finest pictorial photographers in America. Reproductions of his work appeared in the New York Times, Time magazine, and later some of his photographs were featured in a PBS documentary on playwright Eugene O’Neill. Today, seven of Gregory’s photos remain in the Smithsonian’s permanent collection; three other works are held at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
“I knew John Gregory when I was a boy,” remembers Toby Everett, the “Old Guy” of Eric Williams’ WOMR Radio Experience. “I would see him riding his Raleigh bicycle up Commercial Street or find him across from his house by the beach at the West End Racing Club. He usually carried a camera, but he was not one to shoot a thousand shots hoping for a good one. His work was planned, careful, conceptual, and specific.”
Gregory is best remembered for his timeless maritime tableaus of Provincetown and nearby North Truro — classic scenes witnessed by generations over, and others still to come. Gregory simply enhanced and accentuated what nature achieved on its own in color, the knowing resident artist translating the color imagery into rich textures and nuances of silver, ebony, gray and white.
“It was never very easy to make money around here, but he started taking pictures of Navy personnel, and that helped the family income,” says Kenny Gregory. “He would sell anything, but usually for lower than what his art was really worth.”
Even today, Gregory’s prints leave us marveling and reaching back into Provincetown history. The work helps us to remember and appreciate both extinct and enduring natural and manmade town landmarks: the former Cabral Pier destroyed by fire; the large anchors on the beach of Captain Jack’s Wharf; Flyer’s and Taves’ boat yards; Beach Point basked in silvery, stormy light; the West End harbor prior to the building of the Coast Guard Wharf; Sal’s Wharf; and the U.U. Meeting House spire. Still others serve to suggest a fishing era gone by like his beautiful “Calm Harbor” featuring formerly used fishing weirs off the West End beaches.
And based on stories by his the son, one can easily assume that Gregory was artfully resourceful when it came to achieving the perfect shot. In his photo “Fog over Provincetown,” Kenny points out that the three flying seagulls hovering above the fishing boat were actually drawn in by his father. “He always liked to have some kind of movement.” In another photo — “Parson Gull” — in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution, the gull with wildly arched wings is actually stuffed. Such secret artistic licenses beg the thought “what would Gregory have done with digital photography?”
“At first it would have stymied him,” according to Kenny, “but eventually he would have really gotten into it. I just know it.”
For his day, Gregory proved to be a technical master who self-developed the bulk of his negatives. Always generous, Gregory was quick to share tips and reflections on the trade in his treatise on photography printed in “Provincetown by the Sea.” He offered, “From the creative viewpoint, depicting nature in black and white is not a limitation… [where] we can bring out better one of the most fundamentals applying to fine objective painting, graphic art and photography, and that is the lightest light, and the darkest dark…”
Santoro agrees and sees what Gregory so subtly achieved in his lifetime. “I’m honored that the museum is showing my entire collection. They see the same thing that I saw in this work…He’s been gone over a decade, and we have to start remembering him for the artist that he was.”
“We all know that we cannot achieve the impossible, human perfection — but how thrilling it is when we have come close,” wrote Gregory. “Your purpose as a photographer is to create an emotion about the world through what has been observed and carefully selected. You must be moved yourself before you can move others.
It takes a village is 2ft. 1 1/2in. x 3 1/4in. x 5 1/2in.
Yarmouthport is 2ft. 3in. x 3 1/4in. x 5in.
Cup O' Joe is 1ft. 9 1/2in. x 3 1/4in. x 5 1/2in.
Some signs that I also make are "You are my sunshine" and "Family".
If you have a saying of your own you wish to have on a wooden sign please email me and I most likely can make you what you want and in the font and color you would like as well.
The fish is cleaned, inked, and placed on a clean surface. Then, using a rubbing tool, along with the artist's hands, the paper is gently pressed down onto the fish. The action is careful and deliberate, paying close attention to the fishes contour, fins, and most importantly the details of the head.
The paper is then carefully removed, revealing the unique beauty of the fish which is now on the paper.
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This machine has a maximum embroidery speed of 650 stitches per minute.
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The thread is automatically cut at the end of sewing.
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This machine includes memory, so you can leave and your machine will remember both your stitches and patterns positions.
Dual LED Lighting
The lamps illuminates the sewing surface for better viewing.
On-Screen Editing
Up/down Needle Stop Position
Dial Upper Thread Tension
FAST System Bobbin winding system
1st birthday boy or girl mini teddy bear
Winnie the Pooh
Tigger
Sesame Street (Elmo, Oscar, the Count etc)
Care Bears
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Blues Clues
Lightning McQueen from Cars
Bart Simpson
Powerpuff Girls
Football
Congrats (graduate, new house, etc)
Baby shower themed cakes and/or cupcakes
Cupcakes & Mini cupcakes
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