Cahoon Museum of American Art

Public programs include a series of annual changing exhibitions, tours, artist's talks and workshops, and family activities.

[citation needed] The museum was founded in 1982 by Cotuit art collector, Rosemary Rapp.

The Cahoons rose in popularity in the 1950s and credited their fame to Joan Whitney Payson, an American heiress, businesswomen, philanthropist, and art collector.

[citation needed] In 1982 Rosemary Rapp bought the property located at 4676 Falmouth Road, Cotuit Ma.

The collection includes work by Cape Cod folk artists Ralph Cahoon and Martha Cahoon, 19th century paintings by Ralph Blakelock, William Bradford, James Buttersworth, John J. Enneking, Alvan Fisher, Levi Wells Prentice and William Matthew Prior, 20th century paintings by Margaret Patterson, Daisy Hughes, Scott Prior and multiple contemporary artists.