Storm Ahead

Louise Freedman

Artist Maurice Freedman had grown up in Boston and he and his wife and fellow artist Louise Freedman rented houses in Wellfleet and Truro, as well as Provincetown, Massachusetts throughout their lifetime. The Freedmans alternated trips to Maine and Europe with Cape Cod.

This composition could well be Provincetown with the high pitched white house and out buildings at the edge of the beach and a white picket fence that surrounds the property. In the background a dark storm forms over the Atlantic, layers of black and gray that hover ominously over the blue water.

Freedman used a toothy paper to print on, allowing some of the texture to show, creating the sense that the work is a painting on canvas.