Historic American Art Colonies
Dixie Art Colony/Alabama Gulf Coast Colony through Lyme Art Colony
Dixie Art Colony/Alabama Gulf Coast Colony
From other websites:
Dixie Art Colony/Alabama Gulf Coast Colony, from AskArt.com. Accessed July, 2015
Door County Art Colony
From other websites:
Door County Art History - Lesser Known Door County is a YouTube video where viewers "Learn about the artist colonies and environmental inspiration that established Door County, Wisconsin as an artists haven." Accessed 4/22
"A Look Back at Door County's Art Appeal: Frogtown Art Colony" is a July 7th, 2011 article in the Door County Pulse, Peninsula Pulse which says: "In the summer of 1922, and Frederic Victor Poole, professors at the Art Institute of Chicago, established the camp in the Frogtown community south of the village. The name Frogtown can be traced to the nickname for a French couple who lived in the area. Apparently, the practice of referring to the French as Frogs was based on the green hue of their WWI uniforms, hats and boots and was not, at that time, considered derogatory." Accessed 4/22
Dublin Art Colony
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(above: Abbott Handerson Thayer, Angel, 1887, oil on canvas, 36.2 x 28.1 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum. (above: Eva Watson-Schütze, Jane Whitehead and Lily, 1905, on view at the Johnson Museum as part of its Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony exhibition Oct. 16 through Dec. 5. Courtesy of the Johnson Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Articles and essays from Resource Library:
The Dublin Colony, by Barbara Ball Buff (6/12/01)
From other websites:
From Monadnock Art, "History of Art of the Dublin Art Colony" by Edie Clark says: "The Dublin Art Colony, which was not called such until much more recently, began in the personage of one artist, Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921) who came to Dublin in 1888 and whose artistic passion, eccentricity and magnetic personality subsequently attracted such a constellation of artists that the term came into being as a matter of convenience, nearly one hundred years later, in an effort to celebrate the deep artistic heritage of this small New Hampshire village."
Eagle's Nest Art Colony
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From other websites:
Eagle's Nest Art Colony from The Oregon Public Library's Eagle's Nest Colony Art Collection, Oregon Illinois. Includes numerous artist biographies and images of artworks in the collection. Accessed July, 2016.
Eagle's Nest Art Colony from Wikipedia. Accessed July, 2015
East End Art Colony
Articles and essays from Resource Library:
Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts, Selections from the Permanent Collection (1/25/04)
From other websites:
"That Other East End Artists' Colony." By David Everett, February 10, 2008 in The New York Times. Accessed July, 2015
Fourteenth Street School
(above: Guy Pène du Bois,
The Confidence Man, c. 1919, oil on panel, 27.9 x 22.5 inches, Brooklyn
Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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"Artists of the Fourteenth Street School" is a 2014 Incollect article by Eric Brockett who says: " The best remembered members of the group, who worked in the vicinity of Fourteenth Street and Union Square, are Kenneth Hayes Miller, Reginald Marsh, Raphael Soyer, and Isabel Bishop; also associated were Moses Soyer and Edward Laning.The location of their studios provided them with a lively spectacle. Vast numbers of residents of Manhattan and beyond frequented the "poor man's Fifth Avenue" to patronize affordable clothing stores, movie theaters, and restaurants, or to work in the area's banks and offices. Its proximity to the impoverished Bowery neighborhood also resulted in the presence of vagrants who passed time in Union Square's park." Accessed 6/22
The Art Story says: "Centered around the bustling Union Square in downtown New York, the artists of the Fourteenth Street School depicted an array of urban denizens before and during the Great Depression. Working in a realistic manner, artists such as Kenneth Hayes Miller, Raphael Soyer, Isabel Bishop, and Reginald Marsh, painted the working men and women, the middle-class shoppers, and the sidewalk hawkers with humanity and, at times, with a touch of cynicism." Accessed 6/22
Figure Study: The Fourteenth Street School and the Woman in Public is a 2011 exhibit at The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia which says: "Artists including Kenneth Hayes Miller, Isabel Bishop, Guy Pene du Bois and Reginald Marsh, who all lived and worked in the Union Square neighborhood and studied or taught at the Art Students League, created a typology of urban dwellers, depicting them in various public and private activities." Accessed 5/22
Golden Heart Farm
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Golden Heart Farm was a colony in New York, from Wikipedia. Accessed July, 2015
Greenwich Society of Artists
(above: Robert Walter Weir, The Greenwich Boat Club, 1833, oil on canvas, 21.2 x 30.5 inches, Princeton University Art Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
From other websites:
Pemding
Hampton Bays Art Colony
Articles and essays from Resource Library:
Bohemian Paradise: David Burliuk, Nicolai Cikovsky and the Hampton Bays Art Group (3/11/08)
From other websites:
"That Other East End Artists' Colony." By David Everett, February 10, 2008 in The New York Times. Accessed July, 2015
East Hampton Artist Colony from Wikipedia. Accessed July, 2015
Ivy Wild
From other websites:
Out of the Blue! George Frederick Gleich's 1924 "Sketches from Life and Nature" by Rebecca Ragan Akins in California Desert Art by Ann Japenga. Accessed 5/22
Laguna Art Colony
(above: Edgar Alwin Payne, High Sierra, 1921, Steven Stern Fine Arts. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Please click here to see artworks by artists affiliated with the Laguna Art Colony
Articles and essays from Resource Library:
What Made Laguna Beach Special; essay by Deborah Epstein Solon (1999)
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Art Colony: The Laguna Beach Art Association, 1918-1935 is a 2018 exhibit at the Laguna Art Museum which says: "Although monographs have been published on several members of the art association -- and some scholarship has focused on aspects of the organization -- this is the first large-scale, critical study to focus exclusively on the art association's growth and development." Also see 7/15/18 Laguna Beach Independent Newspaper article and 6/14/18 Fine Art Connoisseur article Accessed 8/18
Los Angeles Art Colony
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(above: Unknown photographer, Art students posing with an artists' model (Art Students League of Los Angeles), c. 1912, postcard (foreground: Rex Slinkard and model Al Treloar; background (L to R): Jack Stark, John Storrs, Carl Sprinchorn, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified), John Henry Bradley Storrs papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Articles and essays from Resource Library:
The Art Students League of Los Angeles, 1906-53, by Julia Armstrong-Totten, Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, and Will South
The Development of an Art Community in the Los Angeles Area, by Ruth Westphal
Loners, Mavericks & Dreamers: Art in Los Angeles Before 1900 by Nancy Moure
From other websites:
The Brewery Art Colony from Wikipedia. Accessed July, 2015
Lyme Art Colony
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Articles and essays from Resource Library:
A Circle of Friends: The Artists of the Florence Griswold House (4/20/07)
In Retrospect: Selected Works by Lyme Art Association Members; essay by Michael Lloyd (11/28/05)
A Matter of Style: The Influence of French Art on the Old Lyme Art Colony (9/27/04)
The American Art Colony at Lyme (2/7/02)
The Lure of Lyme: Celebrating 100 Years of the Lyme Art Colony (2/3/99)
From other websites:
The Lyme Art Colony from the Florence County Museum. Accessed July, 2015.
The Lyme Art Colony: An American Giverny, from lymeart.com. Accessed July, 2015
Institutional History from the Florence County Museum. Accessed July, 2015
"Introduction to the Lyme Art Colony" by Jeffrey Andersen, Florence County Museum, who says: "During the first two decades of the 20th century, the village of Old Lyme, Connecticut, was the setting for one of the largest and most significant art colonies in America. Centered in the boardinghouse of Miss Florence Griswold, the colony attracted many leading artists - Henry Ward Ranger, Childe Hassam, and Willard Metcalf among them - who were in the vanguard of the Tonalist and Impressionist movements." Accessed 5/22
Matilda Browne: Idylls of Farm and Garden is a 2017 exhibit at the Florence County Museum which says: "In Greenwich, where she lived most of her adult life, she was a founder of the Greenwich Society of Artists and exhibited in all of their annuals from the first, in 1912, through 1931. Yet this will be her first solo exhibition in more than eight decades and the first ever in a museum. " Also see 2/27/17 article in dayextra.com. Accessed 3/17
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