Arthur V. Diehl

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Diehl Provincetown painting!  Born in London, England, Diehl was the youngest of six children.  His father was director of an opera company, and his mother a published novelist. A brilliant child, Diehl is said to have conducted his father's orchestra at the age of sixteen.  He became a student at Oxford University, but by the age of nineteen left to travel through Europe, spending a brief time studying painting in Milan.  He exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1899.  Diehl came to New York City in 1891.  With little money, he turned to piecework, painting tops of snuff boxes.  He also worked in theater, singing, acting, directing, and playing music, even touring with the Barrymores.  He kept studios in Englewood and Asbury Park, New Jersey 1909 - 1913, and then in Truro and Provincetown, spending some winters in St. Augustine, Florida. Mostly self-taught, Diehl became best known for his paintings of Cape Cod including dunes, harbor scenes, and street scenes.  He became so much associated with Cape Cod that in 1921 Fox Movietone made a short film about him painting on the beach.  In 2008 a retrospective exhibition was held at the Cahoon Museum on Cape Cod.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="17b3209a0.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="410" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>