Joseph Solman ranks among the foremost artists of both Cape Ann and New York. Solman lived in New York for over 88 years and spent summers on Cape Ann for five decades. The Cape Ann Museum had a one-man show for Solman in 2000.Joseph Solman was, with Mark Rothko, the unofficial co-leader of The Ten, a group of expressionist painters who exhibited as “The Whitney Dissenters" in New York in 1938. The Ten included Ben-Zion, Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, John Graham, Louis Harris, Earl Kerkam, Karl Knaths, Ralph Rosenborg, Mark Rothko and Louis Schanker. Solman’s work can be seen at The Whitney Museum, British Museum, Jewish Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden among others.