Gardner Cox, 46, is a talented Massachusetts painter with a happy outlook and a common-sensical approach to art that New Englanders can admire. To earn a living, he paints commission portraits of famous figures and Boston's citizens; the rest of his time he spends experimenting with abstractions and searching for new ways to express himself. At Cape Cod's new Mayo Hill Galleries last week, people got a chance to see how the portraiture and experiments had turned out.
It was hard to say which were more successful. Though there were only a few oil portraits in the show (Cox has done such...
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