Recommended Reading
For readers who enjoyed "The Search for Peter Hunt" or who would like to learn more about the artist, his art or his world, the following books and magazines are recommended reading:
Books
A Writer’s Notebook,
W. Somerset Maugham, William Heinemann Ltd., 1949Always Room at the Top, Ganna Walska, Richard R. Smith, 1943
American Painting, Donald Goddard, Beaux Arts Editions, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1990
American Painting 1900-1970, Editors of Time Life Books, Time-Life Books, 1970
Art in Narrow Streets: the First Thirty-Three Years of the Provincetown Art Association, Ross Moffett, Provincetown Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association, 1989
Cecile Sorel: An Autobiography, Cecile Sorel, translated by Philip John Stead, Roy Publishers, 1953
Conversations With Willie: Recollections of W. Somerset Maugham, Robin Maugham, Simon & Schuster, 1978
Folk Art of Europe, Helmuth T. Bossert, Rizzoli, 1990
Friends of France: The Field Service of the American Ambulance described by its members, introduction by A. Piatt Andrew, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916Gentlemen Volunteers: The Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the Great War, August 1914- September 1918, Arlen J. Hansen, Arcade Publishing, 1996
Goleta: The Good Land, Walker A. Tompkins, Goleta Am-Vets Post No. 55 with the Santa Barbara News-Press, 1966
Grandpa’s War: The French Adventures of a World War I Ambulance Driver, Edward Greeman, Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc., 1992
How to Transform Outdated Furniture, Peter Hunt, E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., 1943
Jig Cook and the Provincetown Players: Theatre in Ferment, Robert Karoly Sarlos, University of Massachusetts Press, 1982
La Grande Therese: The Greatest Scandal of the Century, Hilary Spurling, Harper Collins Publishers, 2000
Letters of Charles Demuth: American Artist 1883-1935, edited by Bruce Kellner, Temple University Press, 2000
Love in Majorca: Poems, Sir Humphrey O. Clarke, Favil Press, 1960
Madame: An Intimate Biography of Helena Rubenstein, Patrick O’Higgins, The Viking Press, 1972
Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and Asia, text by Holger Cahill, Maximilien Gauthier, JeanCassou, Dorothy C. Miller, and others, Museum of Modern Art, 1938
Maugham: A Biography, Ted Morgan, Simon & Schuster, 1980
Message of Milarepa, Sir Humphrey O. Clarke, John Murray Publishers, 1958
Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists, Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Abbeville Press, 1990
My Life for Beauty, Helena Rubenstein, Simon & Schuster, 1965
Paintbox Summer, by Betty Cavanna and decorated by Peter Hunt, Westminster Press, 1949
Peasant Art in Europe, H. Th. Bossert, Ernest Benn Ltd., 1927
Peasant Art of Europe and Asia, Helmuth T. Bossert, Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1958
Peter Hunt’s Cape Cod Cookbook: A Cape Cod Treasury of Favorite Recipes Illustrated by the Author, Peter Hunt, Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1954
Peter Hunt’s How-to-do-it Book, Peter Hunt, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1952
Peter Hunt’s Workbook with Text and Pictures, Peter Hunt, Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1945
Plays for a Folding Theatre, Colin Campbell Clements, jacket design by Peter Hunt, Stewart Kidd Company, 1923
Provincetown Painters 1890s-1970s, edited by Ronald A. Kuchta, text by Dorothy Gees Seckler, Visual Arts Publications, Inc., 1977
Provincetown Profiles and Others on Cape Cod, Frank Crotty, Barre Gazette, 1958
Rose on the Sand, Elisabeth Cook, self-published, 1938
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s, Ann Douglas, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995
The Big Book of Decorative Painting, Jackie Shaw, Watson-Guptil Publications, 1994
The Cruise of the Zaca, Templeton Crocker, Harper & Brothers, 1933
The Improper Bohemians: A Re-Creation of Greenwich Village in its Heyday, Allen Churchill, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1959
The Painting World of Nancy Whorf, Nancy Whorf with Marynell Snow, Priscilla Hauser, 1976
The Razor’s Edge, W. Somerset Maugham, William Heinemann Ltd., 1944
The Summing Up, W. Somerset Maugham, William Heinemann Ltd., 1938
They Taught Themselves: American Primitive Painters of the 20th Century, Sidney Janis, originally printed by Museum of Modern Art, 1942, reprinted by Hudson River Press, 1999
Time and the Town: A Provincetown Chronicle, Mary Heaton Vorse, originally published 1942, reprint Rutgers University Press, 1991
Transformagic, Peter Hunt, E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., 1944
World Encyclopedia of Naïve Art: A Hundred Years of Naïve Art, Oto Bihalh-Merin and Nebojsa-Bato Tomasevic, Chartwell Books, Inc., 1984
Zaca Venture, William Beebe, Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc., 1938
Magazines
Cape Cod Antiques & Arts, September, 1982, "Peter Hunt: A Village Within A Village,"
Cape Cod Compass, 1963, "Winter is Best" by Peter Hunt
Country Living, May, 1990, "Brushing Up on Peter Hunt," Abby Ruoff
Design, November, 1950, "Peter Hunt’s Painting Magic," Peter Hunt
House Beautiful, August, 1943, "Revealing the Secrets of Peter Hunt, America’s Most Imaginative Furniture Magician," "Summer Home Life al Fresco: Peter Hunt Salvages Cast-Offs for Helena Rubenstein’s Terrace," no author credits.
Life magazine: November 2, 1942, "Made-Over Junk: Provincetown artist shows how to transform dark, ugly furniture into gay modern pieces"
McCall’s, December, 1943, "A Christmas to Make and Remember" and "How to Paint the Peter Hunt Way."
National Geographic, June, 1946, photograph "In Peter Hunt’s Studio Overlooking Provincetown Harbor, Girls Make Rugs in old Portuguese style" for "Cape Cod People and Places."
Vogue, April 15, 1940, set decoration for "Victorian pair" by Peter Hunt
List compiled by Lynn C. Van Dine
If you have any questions, comments or suggested additions, please contact me at lynnvandine@peasantvillage.com
(Copyright 2004© Lynn C. Van Dine)