Historic American Art Colonies
MacDowell Art Colony through North Conway Art Colony
MacDowell Art Colony
From other websites:
MacDowell Art Colony from AskArt. Accessed July, 2015
MacDowell Colony, from Wikipedia. Accessed July, 2015
Images pending
Charlotte Blass
Paul Burlin
Lawrence Calcagno
Raymond Jonson
Helen Farnsworth Mears
John Raimondi
Nan Sheets
Matunuck Art Colony
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(above: William Trost Richards, Recruiting Station (Bethlehem), before 1862, oil on canvas, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Articles and essays from Resource Library:
Painters of Matunuck, Rhode Island, 1873-1941; article by Lindsay Leard-Coolidge (12/30/10)
From other websites:
A Sense of Place: Painters of Matunuck, Rhode Island 1873-1941 from Lyman Allyn Art Museum. Accessed July, 2015
Painters of Matunuck, Rhode Island, 1873-1941; article by Lindsay Leard-Coolidge (12/30/10)
Images pending:
Caroline Atkinson
Frank Convers Mathewson
Eleanor Richards Price
Maverick Colony
(above: John Flannagan, Figure of Dignity - Irish Mountain Goat, 1932, Granite, and cast aluminum, on concrete plinth, 53 3/4 x 14 1/8 x 8 3/4 inches, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Alexander Shilling Fund, 1941. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
From other websites:
The Maverick Colony was founded near Woodstock by Hervey White, from Wikipedia. Accessed July, 2015
Hervey White and the Maverick Art Colony: An Historical Overview is section of the website The Maverick Festival, 1915 - 1931 from The Jean Gaede and Fritzi Striebel Archive of the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Accessed 4/22
Mississippi Art Colony
Articles and essays from Resource Library:
The Mississippi Art Colony Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition (12/98)
From other websites:
Mississippi Art Colony: History, from Mississippi Art Colony. Accessed July, 2015
Mississippi Art Colony and How It Grew from Mississippi Art Colony [Link found to be expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO is saving the citation for use by researchers.]
Mississippi Art Colony from Archives of American Art. Accessed July, 2015
Images pending:
Halcyone Barnes
Bess Dawson
Ruth Holmes
Marie Hull
Lallah Perry
Monhegan Island Art Colony
(above: Willard Metcalf, May Night (Florence Griswold House in Old Lyme, Connecticut.), 1906, oil on canvas, 99.5 ? 36.1 inches, National Gallery of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Articles and essays from Resource Library:
Lamar Dodd - Half a Century of Monhegan Summers; essay by Robert L. Stahl, M.D. (10/10/15)
A Gift to the Island; essay by Remak Ramsay (7/21/10)
Jay Connaway and the Landscape of New England (11/27/09)
A Painter's Paradise: Monhegan's Nineteenth-Century Artists; essay by Emily Grey (7/25/09)
The Monhegan Island Art Colony: 1858-2003; essay by Edward L. Deci (9/2/05)
From other websites:
Monhegan Museum of Art & History says: "Each year the Museum presents an art exhibition in the new Gallery Building showcasing a particular artist or period of Monhegan's artistic history using materials from our collection, and from interested friends." Accessed 7/22
Monterey Peninsula Art Colony
(above: William Ritschel, Monterey Coast, after 1911, oil on canvas, Dayton Art Institute. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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Articles and essays from Resource Library:
Monterey: The Artist's View, 1925 - 1945; texts by Kent Seavey (7/11/08)
Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907 (12/12/05)
The Carmel Monterey Peninsula Art Colony: A History; article by Barbara J. Klein (4/21/05)
A Matter of Style: The Paintings of Armin Hansen and William Ritschel (5/18/98)
From other websites:
"Time Captured in Paintings" is a video narrated by Jack Lemmon, produced in 1991 for the Monterey Museum of Art and updated for PBS in 1995, tells the story of Monterey Peninsula artists. Accessed 5/22
Mystic Art Colony
(above: Robert Brackman, Somewhere in America, 1934, oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 25 1/8 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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Articles and essays from Resource Library:
Art Is Upon the Town: A Retrospective Exhibition; article by Willa T. Schuster (2/26/09)
From other websites:
Mystic Art Association history from Mystic Arts Center. Accessed July, 2015
The Nantucket Art Colony
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From other websites:
The Nantucket Art Colony, 1920-45 is a collaborative exhibition presented by the Nantucket Historical Association and the Artists Association of Nantucket. Accessed July, 2015
New Harmony Arts Community
From other websites:
New Harmony Arts Community from AskArt.com. Accessed July, 2015
New Hope Art Colony
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Articles and essays from Resource Library:
From other websites:
History / Historic New Hope, PA, article by Terry A. McNealy, a Director of the New Hope Historical Society. The article appeared in the Spring 2005 issue of Bucks County Town & Country Living. Accessed July, 2015
New Hope Art Colony (Bucks County, Pennsylvania) from AskArt.com. Accessed July, 2015
Pennsylvania Impressionists: Valued at Last, April 7, 2003 article by Dennis Gaffney from PBS.Discusses New Hope impressionists. Accessed July, 2015
New Rochelle Art Colony
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From other websites:
New Rochelle Art Association from Wikipedia. Accessed February, 2016
North Conway Art Colony
From other websites:
North Conway Art Colony in White Mountain Art from Wikipedia. Accessed July, 2015
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