[Rarebooks] FS: 1920s Rockport Art Association Hand-Made Easter Card -Artist to Art Editor

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

Hand-made Easter Greeting Card for Alice Lawton by Charles R. Knapp, 
Rockport, Massachusetts- 1920s or 1930s.

A charming hand-drawn Easter card from a founder of the Rockport Art 
Association to the Art Editor of the Boston Post. The card features an 
eastern European woman in traditional dress holding a candle and a 
basket of decorated eggs. The cover reads- “Happy Easter – To Miss Alice 
Lawton”. The interior is hand-lettered- “The Slovak girl from 
Podkarpatska Rue – in Czechoslovakia and – Chas. R. Knapp – wish you a 
most – Happy Easter”. The word Podkarpatska is mis-spelled in ink, and 
carefully corrected in pencil.

Alice Lawton was the Art Editor of the Boston post newspaper, and once 
wrote- “Observations during some dozen years punctuated by frequent 
visits to Rockport not only in summer but throughout all seasons have 
established firmly in my mind the fact that Rockport is a 
self-contained, miniature art world. One finds there artists of all 
degrees of talent, ability, style, and school, many of them permanent 
residents and many more loyal Rockporters by adoption for a portion of 
the year”.

Cooley’s Rockport Sketchbook notes- “Charles R. Knapp arrived in 
Rockport from Gloucester at about the time the guns were starting World 
War I far from Sandy Bay. He found kindred spirits in Margenson, 
Perkins, Cady and Stevens. “We had wonderful times together,” he 
reminisced in his Mills Lane apartment. “There were only a few of us, 
and we had this beauty all to ourselves”. Knapp recalled that before 
1920 he urged Aldro T. Hibbard to leave Provincetown for Rockport. When 
Hibbard argued that the Cape Cod town had crooked streets just made for 
painting, Knapp countered with, “Well, there are crooked streets here, 
too. Better come”. Knapp, born in Czechoslovakia while his American 
mother and English father –an oil company salesman- were traveling, 
became one of the early officers of the Rockport Art Association and was 
an incorporator of the organization. Later he spent several years on 
Moravia executing a commission to paint the St. Anthony festival. 
Returning to Rockport, he steeled into the local scene and as an active 
worker for the R.A.A. for many years. He and his big cat Tinker Bell 
were inseparable companions”.

Greeting card. 5”x7.5”. Minor wear, light soil.  $65-

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