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This gallery specializes in paintings, drawings, watercolors, and mixed-media works from contemporary American and foreign artists. It also has a fine selection of master prints and works from 20th-century American masters. The gallery exhibits emerging, mid-career, and established artists, as well as special shows of master artists such as Pablo Picasso, Fairfield Porter, Max Beckmann, and others.
Tucked among dozens of art studios in the artsy SoWa (South of Washington) area, this artist-run, members-only gallery mounts monthly shows featuring contemporary art in all forms, including printmaking, video, acrylic, ink drawing, and pastels.
The large selection of works for sale in this gallery, established in 1937, includes paintings, prints, drawings, watercolors, and sculpture from the 1500s to the present. For a special memento with more weight than a Red Sox hat, pick out a piece from the gallery's impressive collection of Boston expressionism and Boston School impressionism art.
After more than a century, this nonprofit membership organization continues to present the works of well-known and aspiring New England artists, as well as out-of-town and foreign members. Styles of artists range from traditional and academic realists to contemporary and abstract painters, photographers, and sculptors. Each year, the gallery hosts between 15 and 20 exhibitions, occasionally off-site in such locations as the Langham Hotel and Harbor Towers.
Specializing in contemporary paintings since 1977, primarily oil, watercolor, acrylic, and mixed media, this striking gallery in the neo-Gothic stone Church of the Covenant also displays sculpture and furniture beyond your everyday tables and chairs.
One of New England's foremost crafts centers, the gallery shows and sells American arts and crafts, with a strong focus on pottery, jewelry, and textiles.
Located in two areas on Ocean Street (51 and 180), on a boardwalk that parallels the Hyannis Harbor and at Bismark Park, 12 artist shanties host a rotating slate of 80-plus Cape Cod--based artists. Work ranges from photography and paintings to handmade jewelry, ceramics, and wood carving. Hours vary for artists, so check the website for details.
As a contemporary art gallery located in Boston, Pellas Gallery's primary goal is to discover the best new emerging artists with a focus on local talent. Challenge your concept of "art" by exploring the rotating NFT collections.
The showroom features sculpture, pottery, and glass by more than 100 artisans, including hand-blown pieces by Josh Simpson.
This gallery, in an 1844 former school, shows the works of more than 50 local and national artists (modern and contemporary), as well as that of printmakers and photographers.
Nationally renowned for creating distinctive, hand-sculpted metal weathervanes, Tuck and Holand has a studio gallery a 10-minute walk from downtown. Here you can examine Anthony Holand and the late Travis Tuck's otherworldly creations, including copper Martha's Vineyard wall maps, an 11-foot seahorse sculpture, and a school of fish that actually 'swims.' Custom weathervanes are a specialty (there's a waiting list). Holland is considered the country's finest weathervane artisan.
Established in 1841, Vose specializes in 19th- and 20th-century American art, including the Hudson River School, Boston School, and American impressionists. Over the five floors of galleries, visitors will find New England's largest inventory of American realist paintings, all displayed in living- and dining-room settings furnished with antiques for a homelike scene for viewing.
