Provincetown Printers

[1][2] It was the first group of its kind in the United States, developed in an area when European and American avant-garde artists visited in number after World War I.

[4] Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt has been credited with developing the technique, based upon Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock printing, though there is evidence that a lesser-known Provincetown artist, Edith Lake Wilkinson, was making white-line prints in 1913, a year earlier than Nordfeldt's first known efforts.

[3] Other artists in the group included Ethel Mars, Ada Gilmore, Mildred McMillen, Maud Hunt Squire, Ellen Ravenscroft, Karl Knaths, Juliette S. Nichols, Agnes Weinrich, Tod Lindenmuth[6][2][1] Ferol Sibley Warthen, Marguerite Thompson Zorach and William Zorach.

[7][8] Edna Boies Hopkins, a friend of Squires and Mars from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, also visited the community.

[9][6] Bill Evaul, a writer for Print Review in the late 1970s, was asked to write an article about "printmaking in Provincetown", but by that time many of the artists were no longer alive.