Market Day

Although she is most often associated with Philadelphia, as an important member of the “Philadelphia Ten,” a group of women artists formed in the teens and active through World War II, Ferguson also spent time on Cape Cod studying with Charles Webster Hawthorne. Her other teachers at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts included William Merritt Chase. This scene is typical of her work, depicting bustling Commercial Street in Provincetown. The artist remarked, “I like to paint the streets, crowded with people, happy when carts, automobiles, and people did not block my view, and strangers asked no questions."