Wellfleet’s Left Bank Gallery, located on the left bank of Duck Creek, celebrates a half century of presenting art to a discerning and appreciative audience.

Mise en scène: The year is 1972, a Saturday evening in August, commonly known as the “Gallery Night” of the week. Soft briny breezes from Duck Creek blow into the former American Legion building on Commercial Street in Wellfleet where a tony crowd of literary, artistic and otherwise successful summer residents gather to catch-up, quietly gossip, and impress with their erudite observations of meaning, technique and purpose found in the art that surrounds them at the newly opened Left Bank Gallery. The entrepreneurial muse behind the creative collective of fine art and crafts that certainly raised the bar on what was available in the quiet little beach town, was a twenty-one-year-old Audrey Sherwin. At that young age, Audrey a free-spirited, young woman who was smart and savvy beyond her years, only knew that she loved her hometown of Wellfleet, loved the spirit and landscape interpreted by the creative individuals she had encountered while working at what was previously the Wellfleet Art Gallery, in a town that has become known as “Wellfleet the Gallery Town,” and knew she had to find a way to make a living.