Anne Packard opened the doors to Packard Gallery in 1988. The historic building is located in Provincetown’s Gallery District and was once home to a Christian Science Church.

Both her grandmother, Zella, and grandfather, Max Bohm (Gold Medalist of the Paris Salon in 1898 for his painting En Mer), were artists. Max is credited with helping establish Provincetown as a successful artists’ colony. This artistic lineage is, in part, how Provincetown became so deeply rooted within the family.

Packard Gallery represents the work of Anne and Cynthia Packard, two generations of widely exhibited and collected painters. Anne, a renowned landscape artist, paints simple, sparsely rendered scenes of the Outer Cape and Europe. Cynthia’s paintings explore light, atmosphere, and abstraction through expressive color and form.

More than 30 years later, the gallery continues as a family-owned and operated space dedicated to the work of Anne and Cynthia Packard.