New Britain, CT.- The New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA) presents “The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America’s Oldest Continuous Art Colony (1899-2011)” through October 16th in the Museum’s McKernan Gallery. The exhibition will be the most comprehensive survey of America’s oldest art colony ever presented, and will focus on Provincetown’s legacy as an art colony (in 1916, the Boston Globe declared it the “Biggest Art Colony in the World”) and will cover over 100 artists and as many artworks from Charles W. Hawthorne’s founding of the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899—and, thereby, the colony itself—to the present day. This will be the largest and most comprehensive examination of the art colony ever completed as the last Provincetown survey (exhibited over 40 years ago) ended with artwork from the 1970’s.