Anne Packard (American, b. 1933) oil on board coastal landscape painting, likely a Cape Cod / Provincetown scene, depicting a seaside house situated on sandy dunes, under a sky filled with gathering gray clouds. Unsigned; artist's name and "Hopewell NJ" inscribed in pencil en verso of frame. Wood frame with white painted rabbet edge. Board – 10" W x 5"H. Frame – 12"W x 7"H. Biography: Anne Packard is the granddaughter of famous American painter Max Bohm, attended Bard College and studied with the late Phil Malicoat, but her 20s and 30s were spent mainly as a wife and mother. Her interest in painting was not taken seriously until her 40s, when she began selling her work out of financial necessity. Her contemporary, realist seascapes were well received and she sold paintings for several years out of her home in Hopewell, NJ before opening Packard Gallery in Provincetown, MA in 1988. Her work is in the collections of the New Jersey State Museum, the Provincetown Art Association, and the Oglethorpe University Museum. The Cape Cod Museum of Fine Art hosted a major retrospective of her work in 2006.

CONDITION: Painting in excellent condition, no damage. Some light scattered wear to frame.