Painter Nadine Valenti Beauchamp (1928 - 2022) was a painter of vivid and colorful abstract works. The daughter of Sicilian immigrants, Beauchamp attended Washington Irving High School in Manhattan, earned a scholarship to attend the Art Students League, and left home at the age of 17 eventually finding steady work as an illustrator for advertising firms. At the time, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, she studied painting with Hans Hofmann and became part of the artist community in Provincetown, MA, eventually meeting and then marrying the figurative expressionist Robert Beauchamp. Valenti’s colorful and vivid paintings and drawings have been shown at the Westbeth Gallery in New York City, at the Cherrystone Gallery in Wellfleet, MA, and in many exhibitions at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. She became the subject of Nadine Valenti, Portrait of a Painter, an online documentary by Robert Zaslow that is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and was in residence in 1978. From 1990 to 2012, she made Cape Cod her home, before returning to New York.
Nadine Valenti
Studios
Alexander
Nadine Valenti worked in the Alexander studio.
Originally designed to be a visual art gallery, this facility was built in memory of the late John White Alexander (1856-1915) and funded by Elizabeth Alexander and their son James. John White Alexander was highly regarded as a portrait painter and, in the early part of the 20th century, served…