Tod Lindenmuth

Born in Pennsylvania to photographer and painter Arlington Nelson Lindenmuth, Tod Lindenmuth began his own artistic education under Robert Henri at the New York School of Art and also studied in Provincetown with E. Ambrose Webster and George Elmer Browne. He first exhibited in Provincetown in 1915, showing a group of his woodcuts, and his talents would come in handy when he designed catalogue covers for the 1916 and 1917 annual exhibitions of the Provincetown Art Association (PAA), of which he was a member. Founded in 1914 with the goal of collecting and promoting work by local artists, the PAA would eventually experience a rift between traditional and modern painters, and from 1927 to 1937 two separate “Regular” and “Modern” shows were organized to placate both factions. Lindenmuth studied with more conservative members like Browne and Webster, yet he easily mingled with the avant-garde sect and joined his friend Ross Moffett in bridging the gap; by 1938, the PAA’s Board of Honorary Trustees became a more representative group of the range of styles found throughout Provincetown and once again the “Regulars” and “Moderns” exhibited together.

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