Bert Gallery Studio Sale – Provincetown Heritage: The Corbridge Collection
November 20,2024
Online at Live Auctioneers 6 PM
PROVIDENCE, RI bertgallery@comcast.net
401-751-2628 www.bertgallerynow.com

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Bert Gallery’s November 20 Studio Sale features the “Provincetown Heritage: The Corbridge Collection” at 6 pm Eastern time at Live Auctioneers. “It is exciting to offer this single-owner collection and increase the gallery outreach beyond 24 Bridge Street in Providence to a wider audience online with a dedicated artwork online auction. Welcome to all our new patrons from across the country,” said gallery owner Catherine Little Bert.

The Bert Gallery Studio Sales brings artworks to market for the collector or dealer who seeks accomplished artists with well-established exhibition and museum records. Each painting is well documented with extensive written descriptions for each entry, allowing buyers to discover many new names in American art.

Peter and Cynthia Corbridge lovingly collected an eclectic array of American paintings, prints and Native American pottery and sculpture over their 49 years together. The nexus of the collection is Provincetown and New England artists. Peter grew up summers meandering with his father, artist Edgar Corbridge, through Provincetown artist studios and lofts in the early 1950s. This childhood experience and inheriting Edgar’s art collection spearheaded Peter’s collecting focus. His own creative path led to schooling in architecture at RISD where he was immersed in the dynamic creative Providence art culture. In his later study for a social work degree at the University of Rhode Island he met his beloved Cynthia; they married and began a lifelong journey of collecting local New England artists as well as other artists they encountered during their adventurous travels across the United States and Ireland.

The artworks in this auction include a wide array of collecting arenas. In the painting category, Peter’s father Edgar Corbridge is represented; he was well known for his precise lines, clean edges and bold washes in watercolor depicting unpopulated, quiet landscapes and Provincetown vistas. Many Provincetown artists are included, such as Sol Wilson, John Pike, Bruce McKain, Robert Hunter Douglas and more. There is a large collection of important printmakers such as Crawford Ralston, Richard Florsheim and Federico Castellon. Admired photographers Harry Callahan, Eugene Atget, along with printmaker Diego Rivera and Fritz Eichenberg are highlights. Then, of course, an array of paintings and prints from the Providence School such as Edna Lawrence, David Macauley, Walter Feldman and Karnig Nalbanian will cross the block.

Peter became involved with a pottery cooperative in South County, producing some pots that will be in the auction, along with a collection of Native American pottery such as the Santa Clara potter Red Star and other Pueblo pottery. Sculpture is also integrated into the collection to include Intuit sculptors from Canada and USSR and various bird carvings by Peter’s uncle, Little Compton resident Noel Corbridge.

All of the bidding and purchasing for the auction takes place online through the LiveAuctioneers platform.

Contact Catherine Little Bert at Bert Gallery at 401-751-2628, www.bergallery.com or bertgallery@comcast.net for further information.