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HAROLD BRETT: Cape Cod Yesteryears
by Greg Harper, Executive Director and Curator of the Cape Museum of Fine Arts
The strength of Harold Brett's painting is in the primacy of the subject - his intention is to tell us something about the subject through his subtle and effortless technique. Training at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Art Students League and with the renowned Howard Pyle in Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania combined with Brett's sense of subject and intuitive use of technique, equipped him for his job - a storyteller and keeper of memories. Brett's life from Delaware to Cape Cod put him in contact with corporate and religious leaders, boat captains, publishers and writers. His life on Cape Cod filled him with experiences and images that would inform a lifetime of painting and the pages of countless books and periodicals.
Harold Brett began his career as an illustrator, maintaining a studio for nine years in Wilmington, Delaware. Brett illustrated books for Joseph Lincoln (The Big Mogul, Cape Cod Yesterdays), Lucretia Hale (Peterkin Papers) and other authors. He was a prolific illustrator for Colliers, Ladies Home Journal, Country Gentleman and many others. Brett always contended that the visual images on magazine covers and in the content were the primary vehicle for sales. This is borne out today by the careers of great journalistic fashion photographers.
Except for illustration work for his friend Joseph Lincoln, Brett began to devote all of his time to portraiture by the late 1920's.
His career was successful by most accounts in that he used his broad application of painting styles to tell his stories - those of old Cape Cod and its families, corporate America and popular fiction of the day. His work is on view at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA through January 14, 2001.
This article is co-sponsored by the Cape Museum of Fine Arts. Be sure to view and participate in all the exciting upcoming events and art shows to take place at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts in 1999. For further information please visit their web site at: http://www.cmfa.org
Cape Museum of Fine Arts
P.O. Box 2034
Route 6A
Dennis, MA 02638
508.385.4477
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