PROVINCETOWN, MASS.- Highly-acclaimed Provincetown, MA based plein air Impressionist artist Hilda Neily is now presenting her new Summer Series 2024 paintings, on exhibit from July 24th right through October at the Hilda Neily Gallery at 364 Commercial Street in Provincetown’s East End Gallery District. The Hilda Neily Gallery is now in its 20th season of operation.

The extraordinary new works, oil on board plein air paintings of the cottages and gardens, boats, bays and dunes of the area, keep the Provincetown mystique alive with her signature vibrant landscapes, seascapes and still lifes; all reminiscent of the great French Impressionists. Neily’s contemporary works are a soulful culmination of light and color, which have been and continue to be her inspiration. She has developed her own unique process of showcasing light and color, with mesmerizing results.

Neily feels blessed at being able to experience the most magnificent light a painter can paint; in the Provincetown/Cape Cod area. Her landscapes and other works are all done on location. As she explains “To me painting on location is more than painting a picture… its communicating the experience of being there in a specific place at a specific time. That initial excitement you first felt when you looked at the spot is an element of the experience. The color of things describes them best. All of these thoughts and more are present when I look at the scene I will be painting.”

The exquisite new series, all oil on board, will feature paintings including CAPE COD AFTERGLOW - Oil on board. 12 X 16 inches, GOOD NEIGHBOR - Oil on Board. 16 X 12 inches, BLESSED - Oil on board. 12 X 16 inches, BREAKING CLOUDS- Oil on board. 16 X 12 inches, COMING BACK - Oil on board. 14 X 11 inches, COOL AND CLEAR - Oil on board. 8 X 8 inches and FINDING LITE - Oil on board. 18 X 14 inches.


COMING BACK - Oil on board. 14 X 11 inches.

While others include GOOD MORNING - Oil on board. 18 X 14 inches, IN THE MOMENT - Oil on board. 16 X 12 inches, OLD PROVINCETOWN LANE - Oil on board. 18 X 14 inches, RESTING - Oil on board. 9 X 12 inches and UP EARLY - Oil on board. 12 X 16 inches. Please inquire to Hilda Neily Gallery for prices. Phone (508) 487-6300 or visit www.hildaneilygallery.com

In recent years, Hilda Neily has become known as one of the Cape Cod area’s most prominent artists, having lived and created in Provincetown, MA, the oldest continuous artist colony in the U.S., for over 45 years. She started painting with American master impressionist Henry Hensche at The Cape School of Art in Provincetown in the early 1970's. Hensche founded The Cape School of Art in 1933, carrying on and developing the ideas of his own teacher and mentor, Charles Hawthorne, who started the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown in 1899, paving the way for the town to become one of America's preeminent art communities. Hensche embraced the Hawthorne "color note" approach to painting.

Hilda Neily is considered to be one of the Cape School's most adept practitioners and her position in the community was celebrated in 2015 when she was honored with a two month long mid-career retrospective of her work by The Provincetown Art Association and Museum.


GOOD MORNING - Oil on board. 18 X 14 inches.

Neily worked intensely with Henry Hensche for over 15 years, maintaining a close relationship with Hensche attending daily classes studying light and color. Now, after more than forty years, she continues to carry on the legacy of Hawthorne and Hensche, currently teaching in this important historic tradition at The Cape School of Art, which she and a group of former Hensche students reorganized as a nonprofit in 2010.

She grew up in Vermont, a short distance from the homes of Maxfield Parrish and Beaux-Arts sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens, spending many hours studying the paintings of Parrish who was actually there at the time and would hang his paintings in public places in town for people to enjoy. She considers herself priveleged to have studied the remarkable color and majestic quality of these original Parrish paintings throughout her early years. Neily started showing professionally in 1969. Since then her collector base has grown extensively. She has shown throughout New England, New York, across the U.S. and in the U.K.


GOOD NEIGHBOR - Oil on Board. 16 X 12 inches.