Art Colonies and Communities - the old and the new
This lens provides resources for people who would like to know more about art colonies and art communities - places where artists have created groups and communities. Some of them are famous - and some are not.
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Art Colony on Wikipedia
: See also Artist collective
An art colony or 'artists colony' is a place where creative practitioners live and interact with one another. Artists are often invited or selected through a formal proces...
Art colonies and artist communities in the UK
Includes references to:
- Cornwall: Newlyn and St. Ives
- Suffolk: Southwold and Walberswick
Art Colonies by the seaside
- Making a Mark: Seaside Art Colonies
- I've always been intrigued by art colonies and have tried to visit a few over the years - most of which have seemed to be beside the sea!
To date my list includes: Newlyn, Lamorna, St Ives, Walberswick, Kirkcudbright, Chelsea, Monterey, Carmel, Gloucester and Cape Ann, - plus others whose names escape me - although I suspect they're probably places like Prout's Neck which are associated with only one artist!
See below for blog posts about different places. - Painting on the Edge: Britain's Seaside Art Colonies :: ArtMagick Exhibition Listings :: artmagick.com
- Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance, is collaborating with the University of Northumbria to present a survey of British sea-side Art Colonies from 1880-1930, incorporating the three Cornish colonies, Newlyn, Lamorna and St. Ives, together with their contemporaries in Staithes, Cullercoates, Walberswick, Kirkcudbright and Cockburnspath.
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Painting at the Edge: British Art Colonies 1880-1930
The authors trace the development of the colonies in the 20th century when styles & subjects changed.
This book comprises an excellent introduction by Kenneth McConkey and essays by six contributors on the art
colonies that became established around the British coast from the 1870s onwards. Starting with the artists' search for grand scenery and a plentiful supply of rugged fisher folk as models, these colonies grew up in different ways in Cornwall, on the east coast of England and in Scotland. The best chapters relate to the best being those on Cornwall - Newlyn, Lamorna and St Ives Richard Scott's contribution on Walberswick.
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Art Colonies in Cornwall
- BBC - Legacies - Work - England - Cornwall - The St Ives Art Colony: 1880-2004 - Article Page 1
- How artists have flocked to St Ives for inspiration.
For more than 120 years artists from many parts of the world have been drawn to the small seaside town of St Ives, at the far west of Cornwall, on account of its extraordinary light. A significant number of whom have chosen to make it their home. The origins of this migration, which first occurred in the latter part of the 19th Century, throughout Europe and the United States, was in response to changes in the way artists were beginning to work: painting and drawing out of doors ('plein-air') rather than in their studio, and the desire to form artists' colonies. - St Ives Society of Artists
- Artists first began to settle in St Ives, establishing the town's reputation for marine and landscape art. Julius Olsson RA (1864 - 1942) founded the first School of Painting in 1895.
- History of Art in St Ives
- Artists have been coming to work in St Ives since the nineteenth century. From the 1880s onwards, Newlyn, St Ives and the west Cornwall hinterland were firmly on the map as destinations for artists seeking a quasi-communal way of living and working - on the lines of the continental art colony of Pont-Aven in Brittany - as well as fresh subject matter in the landscape, climate and social realities of this still-remote area of the country.
- Tate St Ives | Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Barbara Hepworth first came to live in Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson and their young family at the outbreak of war in 1939. She lived and worked in Trewyn studios, now the Hepworth Museum, from 1949 until her death in 1975. Following her wish to establish her home and studio as a museum of her work, Trewyn Studio and much of the artist's work remaining there was given to the nation and placed in the care of the Tate Gallery in 1980.
- Penlee House Gallery and Museum Penzance Cornwall UK
- West Cornwall's centre for art and heritage.
- Penlee House Gallery and Museum - Index of Newlyn School artists
- THE ARTISTS: Click on one of the following (links) to find out more about an artist. Further artists will be added.
- Penlee House Gallery and Museum - NEWLYN AND THE ARTISTS' COLONY
- Below are the names of 50 artists who were members of the Newlyn Art Colony 1880-1900. These names were selected by George Bednar from the '120 artists of Newlyn and the Newlyn Art Colony featured in the Second Edition of his monograph "EVERY CORNER WAS A PICTURE", published by Truran, on 5 November 2004.
In general, the names used are as listed in reference books. - The Lamorna Society - artists from the Newlyn School
- THE LAMORNA SOCIETY
The following list is intended to cover artists from
the 'Newlyn school' and those working in the Lamorna Valley. There are links to
further information where this is available.
BOOKS: The Newlyn School
Shining Sands
This is the remarkable story of a colony of artists, inspired by the people, landscape, and light of West Cornwall. Now internationally celebrated, they are to be forever associated with the small fishing ports of Newlyn and St. Ives.
In The Shining Sands, Tom Cross records the life and work of these artists, from the earliest arrivals in the 1870's through to the decade following the Second World War. In this period the artists' colonies grew into one of the most significant art movements of recent times, the influence of which directly inspired the post war 'modern' movements, and which reverberate even today.
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Artists in Newlyn 1880-1940: A Dictionary and Source Book
Drawing on the West Cornwall Art Archive and many other sources, this profusely illustrated book is the most comprehensive survey ever compiled of painters, draughtsmen and women, sculptors and craftspeople working in Newlyn.
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Under the Open Sky: The Paintings of the Newlyn and Lamorna Artists 1880-1940 in the Public Collections of Cornwall and Plymouth
The Paintings of the Newlyn and Lamorna Artists 1880-1940 in the Public Collections of Cornwall and Plymouth
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BOOKS: About the St Ives Art Colony
The St Ives Artists
St Ives is unique in British art history. Between the Second World War and the 1970s, many progressive artists chose to work and often settle around this small port in the far west of Cornwall.Drawing on fresh research, Michael Bird has created a fascinating and highly readable account of St Ives and its artists.
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Painting the Warmth of the Sun
The artists' community in St Ives is recognised internationally as having played a leading part in the development of one of the most significant art movements of the modern era... the post-war modernist movement.
At the outbreak of fine Second World War, St Ives became home for a small group of the most progressive artists and sculptors, including notably Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, already leaders in the advanced art movements of the 1930s, and committed to the principle of abstraction. Their work drew together a group of younger artists who were to make St Ives a center of avant garde activity in post-war Britain. They included John Wells, Bryan Wynter, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Peter Lanyon, Roger Hilton, Terry Frost, and the potter Bernard Leach.
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BOOKS: Artists and St. Ives
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Southwold and Walberswick
- Southwold Art Circle - Artists, Painters, Printmakers in Suffolk
- Welcome to the Southwold Art Circle, one of the largest and longest established art societies in East Anglia.
In 1884 Southwold and the adjoining village of
Walberswick attracted a brilliantly diverse creative band including revolutionary photographer P.H. Emerson, Irish
impressionist Walter Osborne and radical young artists grouped around Philip Wilson Steer. Fresh from France, Steer went on to pioneer English impressionism on the Suffolk coast in scintillating images inspired over successive summers. - Art and Design in Southwold & design
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Making Waves: Artists in Southwold
"From Turner to Damien Hirst, via Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Stanley Spencer and Lucian Freud, hundreds of creative talents have been linked to Southwold. "
Features 250 painters, sculptors and print-makers and 280 pictures - all depicting scenes from in and around Southwold and Walberswick
A new book,
Making Waves: Artists in Southwold, paints a portrait of the Suffolk port-resort through the eyes and lives of 250 painters,
sculptors and print-makers. Complete with 280 illustrations, it is now available in a special offer to NEAC Members and
Friends. From Turner to Damien Hirst - via Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Walter Sickert, Stanley Spencer and Lucian Freud
- the tiny town has drawn some of the biggest names in British art.
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Artists at Walberswick: East Anglian Interludes 1880-2000
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Art colonies and artist communities in Europe
Includes: Barbizon; Collioure and Giverny
Art Colonies in Europe
- Barbizon school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Barbizon school (circa 1830-1870) of painters is named after the village of Barbizon near Fontainebleau Forest, France, where the artists gathered.
Collioure, Languedoc - Home of the Fauves
Using Collioure as a base one it's also possible to easily reach other 'artistic' destinations: the modern art museum at Ceret with its Picassos and Braques, the Dali museum at Figueras, just over the border in Spain and Dali's home village, Cadaquès, further along the coast.
- Collioure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Collioure is a seaside Mediterranean town and commune a few kilometers north of the Spanish border in the French département of Pyrénées-Orientales, a part of the ancient Roussillon province and the present-day Languedoc-Roussillon région.
In the early 1900s Collioure became a center of artistic activity, with several Fauve artists making it their meeting place. - Google Maps - location of Collioure
- Location of Collioure in Languedoc
Collioure has always been a source of inspiration for artists. Writers, poets, singers and painters have all fallen for Collioure's charm. Picasso, Matisse, Derain, Dufy Chagall, Marquet, and many others set up their easels here and immortalized the small Catalan harbor in their works.
Matisse arrived in 1905 to Collioure where he and fellow artist Derain produced a new style of painting called Fauvism. - Site Officiel de l'Office de Tourisme de Collioure
- official website of the Collioure Tourist Information Office
- National Galleries of Scotland - Collection
- Collioure is the name of the fishing village in the south of France where Derain spent the summer of 1905 with fellow artist Henri Matisse. He was very much influenced by the strong light in the south, which casts few shadows and eradicates contrasts in tone. He painted in pure bright colours straight from the tube to capture the effects of the sunlight, using broad, confident brushstrokes to create a flat, decorative and expressive pattern. This use of vibrant colours was associated with the fauvist style.
- Historic Towns in the Languedoc: Collioure in the Languedoc-Roussillon.
- Collioure became the home of the Fauvist Mouvement because of the rare quality of the light. As Matisse, said "No sky in all France is more blue than that of Collioure". Since 1994 "Le chemin du Fauvisme" has used the works of Matisse and Derain to illustrate 20 th century art in this small Catalan harbour. Copies of 20 works from Matisse and Derain are placed around the town at the spots from which the originals were painted, allowing viewers to compare the painting to the present view. The town is still popular with artists. Shame about the pink suburbs and numbers of tourists in high season.
The American Art Colony at Giverny
- The Florence Griswold Museum: Impressionist Giverny:American Painters in France 1885 - 1915
- Impressionist Giverny:
American Painters in France, 1885-1915
Selections from the Terra Foundation for American Art
The Florence Griswold Museum is the first venue for Impressionist Giverny: Americans Painters in France, 1885-1915, an exhibition of over fifty works organized by the Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny. The exhibition tells the story of the expatriate colony founded by American artists in the village of Impressionist master Claude Monet.
BOOKS: The Art Colony at Giverny
Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915
Lured by Monet's artwork and the promise of painting en plein air, artists from America and across Europe flocked to the French village of Giverny in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming it from a sleepy hamlet to a colorful and thriving artists' community.
Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915 evokes the longevity of impressionism and highlights the role Giverny played in the movement's ascendance, placing Giverny in the context of other European artists' colonies of its era. Making use of reproductions of period postcards, paintings, photographs, and previously unpublished documents, editor Katherine M. Bourguignon traces the evolution of the impressionist style in this idyllic and international setting. Fellow contributors address the interactions of the artists of Giverny with Monet, the utopian experiment of a collective artistic enterprise, the emergence of the rural innkeeper as a new class of patron, and the American impressionists who, inspired by their experience in France, often formed artists' colonies back in the United States and participated in the ongoing tradition of French-American cultural exchange.
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In Monet's Light: Theodore Robinson at Giverny
Theodore Robinson (1854-96) was among a number of American painters who began to visit the small hamlet of Giverny on the Seine River in the late 1880s and early 1890s, where Claude Monet had settled in 1883. Robinson adopted the master's vibrant palette and fresh brush work. He also pursued Monet's rigorous practice of exploring subjects in series and, like his mentor, concentrated on recording aspects of the particular locale where he lived and worked. The book shows how Robinson absorbed and translated Monet's working method, style and subject matter, and demonstrates how Robinson conveyed Impressionism to America. His individual accomplishments and his artistic exchange with Monet are examined by juxtaposing the American's French works with a small number of carefully selected examples by Monet.
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Monet's Giverny: An Impressionist Colony
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Impressions of Giverny: A Painter's Paradise 1883-1914
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Blogging about art colonies and artist communities
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Sunday 17th September: Rocky Neck and Rockport, Massachusetts
- On Sunday, I had another bright and sunny day and took a trip across to Cape Ann which is a peninusula north of Boston - and just north of Marblehead. It's home to:
* Rockport - a seacoast village with a harbour which is home to the world famous Motif No 1 painted by many artists over the years and reputed to be the most painted subject in North America and
* Rocky Neck which is said to have the oldest working art colony in North America at 200 years old - Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Thursday 21st September: "In the footsteps of Winslow Homer - nearly"
- Prior to coming to Maine I had decided that I wanted to try and sketch at Prout's Neck as this was where Winslow Homer used to have a house and where he often drew and painted seascapes. (This is a link to an example). Well that was the idea - easier said than done!
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Saturday 23rd September: The Farnsworth, the Wyeths and the rain
- My trip to Rockland, Maine to visit the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Wyeth Centre involved an awful lot of rain - I had hoped to be able to see something of Penobscot Bay, but the weather was simply awful.
Art colonies and communities in the USA
Includes:
East Coast: Bronxville; Long Island; Hudson River; Old Lyme; Cape Ann; The MacDowell Colony; Monhegan,
West Coast: Carmel and Monterey; Laguna Beach;
South West: Sante Fe and Taos
BOOKS: Guides to Artists colonies - old and new
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The 100 Best Art Towns in America: A Guide to Galleries, Museums, Festivals, Lodging and Dining, Fourth Edition
The communities profiled in this fourth edition of The 100 Best Art Towns in America range in size from under 1,000 to nearly 100,000 in population, but all have one thing in common: a strong sense of support for the visual arts, performing arts, and music.
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Artists Communities: A Directory of Residencies that Offer time and Space for Creativity (Artists Communities: A Directory of Residences That Offer Time & Spa)
This "bible" of creative residency programs returns with fresh information and new features for artists of all disciplines. The directory provides a comprehensive index of over 300 residency programs worldwide, along with two-page profiles and photographs of 95 leading artists' communities.
A user-friendly layout allows for quick scanning of facility descriptions, admission deadlines, stipends and fees, selection processes, odds of acceptance, special programs, and institutional history. Carefully designed charts help artists pinpoint residency programs based on such factors as artistic discipline, region, admission deadlines, residency season, fees and stipends, and accessibility for artists with disabilities.
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The 100 Best Small Art Towns in America: Discover Creative Communities, Fresh Air, and Affordable Living
From Northport, Alabama, to Cody, Wyoming, small towns across the U.S. are being revitalized by artists. This guide to the 10 best small art towns includes information on population, economics, real estate, climate, recreation, arts organizations, and festivals. Perfect for artists looking for affordable communities that support the arts, and art lovers seeking very special vacations.
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Art Colonies in the USA
- American Art Colonies, 1850-1930: A Historical Guide to America's Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
- American Art Colonies, 1850-1930: A Historical Guide to America's Original Art Colonies and Their Artists Book by Steve Shipp; 1996. Read American Art Colonies, 1850-1930: A Historical Guide to America's Original Art Colonies and Their Artists at Questia library.
- Bronxville: the planned community as art colony
- Many artists have lived and worked in Westchester, but in few instances have artists' "colonies" been formed. Bronxville was the most prominent and visible one as its developer, William Van Duzer Lawrence, specifically planned his elite community to include artists. This article describes Lawrence's plan, the twenty-two artists who came, and the patronage and associations that they enjoyed in Bronxville.
- Geographic Tour of American Representational Art History
- Geographic Tour of American Representational Art History
The Hudson River School is the earliest thematic community
of American artists. The Cape Ann art colony is the oldest, most continuously
active art colony in America - The MacDowell Colony
- The MacDowell Colony, founded in 1907, is the oldest artists' colony in the United States. It was awarded the National Medal of Arts from President Clinton in 1997 for nurturing some of the century's finest artists. Colony awards residencies to composers, filmmakers, visual artists, interdisciplinar
BOOKS: Books about specific art colonies
books on Amazon
Studios by the Sea : Artists of Long Island's East End
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Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach
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A Place for the Arts: The MacDowell Colony, 1907-2007
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Soho: The Rise and Fall of an Artist's Colony
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Cape Ann - Gloucester, Rockport and Rocky Neck
- The Rocky Neck Art Colony
- As a microcosm of American art history, the story of the Rocky Neck Art Colony covers the sweeping changes in the evolution of painting, and many of the major participants. Almost every American artist of note has painted on Rocky Neck at some point in his or her career. Fitz Henry Lane was the first to capture the genre of the day-sail, schooner, and the hardy Gloucester fisherman. Many others followed including Winslow Homer, Maurice Prendergast, John Sloan, Frank Duveneck, Frederick Mulhaupt, Theresa Bernstein, William Meyerowitz, Milton Avery, Cecilia Beaux, Stuart Davis, Adolph Gottleib, Hans Hoffmann, Mark Rothko, and others.
- Legacy of Cape Ann; essay by James M. Keny
- Cape Ann is a craggy, rockbound peninsula that juts into the North Atlantic about 25 miles north of Boston. Home to the windswept fishing villages of Gloucester, Rockport and Annisquam, it has been the site of an active art colony since the late 1870's.
- North Shore Arts Association, Cape Ann
- North Shore Arts Association Gloucester, On December 2, 1922, the Association was officially incorporated as a nonprofit institution under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The North Shore Arts Association of Gloucester opened its doors to the public on July 14, 1923 in the refurbished Thomas E. Reed building...There had never been a larger collection of art shown at one time in Gloucester. There were 230 paintings, drawings and etchings, and fifteen pieces of sculpture by more than 140 artists.
- Website of the North Shore Arts Association of Gloucester
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the North Shore Arts Association - North Shore Arts Association of Gloucester - a history of the artistic life of Cape Ann
- Reviews the history of artists on Cape Ann and the names of those involved with the area
- The blog of the North Short Art Association - NSAA Artists News
- NSAA Artists News
News, events, awards, announcements, workshops, and other information provided by the artist members of the North Shore Arts Association of Gloucester, Massachusetts
BOOKS: About Cape Ann
Artists of Cape Ann: A 150 Year Tradition
Artists of Cape Ann: A 150 Year Tradition features 65 painters from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that represent a diverse range of styles and techniques. Each picture includes an informative biography.
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The Lyme Art Colony, Connecticut
- The American Art Colony at Lyme
- During the first quarter of the twentieth century, Old Lyme, Connecticut was the center of the Lyme Art Colony, one of most influential colonies in the history of American Art. Artists from across the country flocked to the area to paint the region's abundant subject matter. They also enjoyed the camaraderie of other artists and the gracious hospitality of Miss Florence Griswold, whose boarding house became the center of colony life. Using paintings, photographs, film, and audio, The American Art Colony at Lyme explores the legacy of these artists.
- The Lyme Art Colony - An American Giverny (1 of 6)
- "At Lyme, and especially at Miss Griswold's, there is the atmosphere
one finds in the haunts of painters in Europe."
While boarding at Miss Florence Griswold's in the summer of 1899, Henry Ward Ranger was busy making plans to form an artists' colony. Little did he know, within a few short years, the quiet Connecticut town of Old Lyme would become known from coast to coast as an art center of distinction. Childe Hassam's arrival in 1903 attracted many others as this remarkable group transformed into, "the most famous Impressionist-oriented art colony in America." - Florence Griswold Museum : Home of American Impressionism. Visit were the Lyme Art Colony in Old Lyme Connecticut once lived.
- The Home of American Impressionism features the Griswold House, where the artists of the Lyme Art Colony lived, a riverfront gallery for changing American art exhibitions, an education center, historic gardens, and a restored artist studio.
- The Florence Griswold Museum - An American Place:The Art Colony at Lyne (on going exhibition)
- The Home of American Impressionism features the Griswold House, where the artists of the Lyme Art Colony lived, a riverfront gallery for changing American art exhibitions, an education center, historic gardens, and a restored artist studio.
This page provides an overview of the development of an art colony at Lyme.
BOOKS: The Art Colony at Old Lyme
Childe Hassam in Connecticut
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Miss Florence and the artists of Old Lyme
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Colonies of American Impressionism: Cos Cob, Old Lyme, Shinnecock, and Laguna Beach
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Woodstock, New York
- The Woodstock Art Colony
- Since the rock festival of 1969, Woodstock has been renowned as an icon of counter culture. But its history as a flourishing art colony dates back to the beginning of the century. The founding of the arts colony is marked by a specific date, 1902, when Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and Hervey White selected the town of Woodstock to foster a settlement, school and community of artists and craftspeople.
Monhegan Island, Maine
- The Monhegan Island Art Colony: 1858-2003; essay by Edward L. Deci
- Article about the development of Monhegan Island as an art colony
BOOKS: Art in Maine
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Paintings of Maine: A New Collection Selected by Carl Little (Chameleon Book)
This is a book of striking reproductions of Maine landscape paintings by famous 19th and 20th century painters. The paintings have been selected by Arnold Skolnick and are accompanied by Carl Little's commentary, which includes biographical notes about each painter and selected bits of interesting details about the painting scene in Maine that began shortly after the Civil War and has continued to the present day.
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Maine in America: American Art at The Farnsworth Art Museum
Mount Desert, Monhegan Island, Ogunquit, Mount Katahdin, Camden Harbor, the Allagash -- these names evoke varied images of Maine -- images created by such artists as Frederic E. Church, Winslow Homer, Rockwell Kent, John Marin, and Edward Hopper. For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Maine served as both host and inspiration for a remarkable number of artists. It has been represented in almost every style and medium -- the luminist landscapes of Fitz Hugh Lane, impressionist seascapes of Willard Metcalf, abstractions by John Marin, and the realism of Andrew Wyeth's work.
For 50 years, the Farnsworth Art Museum has collected expressions of Maine by these artists and others. Works by Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Thomas Eakins, William Harnett, Martin Johnson Heade, George Inness, Robert Salmon, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, and others attest to the depth of the Museum's 19th century collection. The 20th century is richly represented by Will Barnet, George Bellows, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, Robert Indiana, Louise Nevelson, Neil Welliver, Marguerite and William Zorach, and especially the Wyeth family. The museum's holdings of American impressionists are especially strong, with works by Frank Benson, Joseph DeCamp, Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, and John Twachtman.
Maine in America presents a lavish selection of nearly 250 works from the Farnsworth's permanent collection of paintings, watercolors, and sculpture and traces the development of art in Maine within the larger context of American art.
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The Art of Maine in Winter
The Art of Maine in Winter presents more than eighty works by the finest American painters who capture the beauty of winter in Maine. Winslow Homer and Rockwell Kent, for example, stayed well into the winter, creating some of the most memorable images of Maine ever made. Snow on a meadow, ice blocks in a bay, frozen winter streams, sea smoke hovering over the ocean, and houses becoming gingerbread fantasies after a snowstorm -- these are the glories of winter in Maine that have inspired artists for almost two hundred years.
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Art of the State: Maine (Art of the State)
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Carmel and Monterey
- The Carmel Monterey Peninsula Art Colony: A History
- The Carmel Monterey Peninsula Art Colony: A History - By Barbara J. Klein
While Monterey flourished as a resort community, nearby Carmel remained a destination distinguished only by the ruins of its mission, until 1902, when two idealistic young men, Frank Devendorf and Frank Powers, formed the art colony that became Carmel-by-the-Sea.
Carmel evolved from the combined visions of its developers, and the artists, writers, and poets who settled there in the early half of this century. The canopy of pines which enveloped the village leading down to the beach was sensitively interspersed with environmentally compatible cottages and a main street for commerce limited to small businesses which serviced the community. - Carmel Journal; At the Seaside, Art Imitates Furniture - New York Times
- Carmel Journal; At the Seaside, Art Imitates Furniture
By KATHERINE BISHOP, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: July 7, 1988
Legend has it that this seaside town was founded at the turn of the century as an artist's colony and quickly became an outpost of West Coast Bohemian literary and artistic life. In 1924, 70 resident artists formed the Carmel Art Association, and the town's reputation as a center of locally produced fine art and crafts took hold.
BOOKS: Artists in Carmel and Monterey
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Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907
Publisher: Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art (1976)
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Carmel Art Association: A history
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Cottages by the Sea, The Handmade Homes of Carmel, America's First Artist Community
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Laguna Beach
- Art Colonies and American Impressionism: What Made Laguna Beach Special
- Laguna Art Museum Laguna Beach, California
- an essay in connection with...Art Colonies and American ImpressionismJanuary 9 through April 11, 1999
"What Made Laguna Beach Special" by Deborah Epstein
BOOKS: Art at Laguna Beach
The California impressionists at Laguna
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New Mexico: Santa Fe and Taos
- THE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE: HOW THE SANTA FE ART COLONY BEGAN
- Artists began going to Santa Fe in the early twentieth century
When "Anglo" artists began to settle in the Santa Fe area in the opening years of the twentieth century, they discovered a mother lode of images, esthetics and amenities. The main draw was the landscape. It was, and is, a matchless blend of shape, color and light. Its proportions are majestic, yet its scale is human.......... - AskArt - Taos pre 1940
- Taos was New Mexico's premier art colony and the first significant art colony in the American West. Founders were Ernest Blumenschein and Bert Phillips who were on a painting expedition together when their carriage broke down in the vicinity of Taos in 1898. Awed by the beauty of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range and intrigued by the mix of Taos Pueblo Indian and Hispanic cultures, they spread the word.
In the AskART database, over 654 American artists are listed as having painted in New Mexico before 1940.
Although the stylistic distinctions between them and the earlier group are blurred, a second generation of arriving artists in Taos are often described as being more modernist in style, many of them having been influenced by impressionism and other movements originating in Europe.......
The Taos artist colony ebbed with World War II, which diverted the resources of the Santa Fe Railroad as well as many collector-benefactors and general tourists. - Taos Society of Artists, article by Sarah Beserra
- Taos Society of Artists by Sarah Beserra
At the same time that the California Impressionists dominated the art scene in Southern California in the early 20th Century, a small group of painters were making history in New Mexico. They were known as the Taos Society of Artists. Their paintings now reside in top galleries and museums.
They all came from somewhere else, like the California painters, but for different reasons. Unlike the California artists who were drawn to Southern California by the light and the year-round sunshine, the Taos painters were attracted by the culture, the mix of Hispanic, Anglos and Indians and their boyhood fantasies of the wild west. The focus of this yearning was the Taos Pueblo and its inhabitants -- Tewa Indians -- who had inhabited the large pueblo for hundreds of years........
BOOKS: Santa Fe and Taos Art colonies
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Mabel's Santa Fe and Taos: Bohemian Legends, 1900-1950
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Art colonies and communities in Australia
Art colonies and communities in Australia
- Melbourne, Victoria: Bayside City Council - Coastal Arts Trail
- The cliff tops and beaches of the Bayside area have provided inspiration for many writers, sculptors and painters, most notably the Heidelberg School.
Over three years Bayside City Council has developed the Bayside Coastal Art Trail covering 17 km of one of Melbourne's most picturesque coastlines.
The Bayside Coastal Art Trail seeks to celebrate the lives and artwork of notable Australian artists who painted the Bayside coast in years past and maps an important part of the area's cultural heritage whilst enhancing the enjoyment for present day visitors to the coast. - Bundanon Trust - Home Page
- Arthur and Yvonne Boyd's gift of the Bundanon properties and collections has given Australia a unique cultural and environmental asset. The Bundanon gift was borne out of Arthur Boyd's often stated belief that 'you can't own a landscape' and the deeply felt wish that others might draw inspiration from Bundanon as he did.
The Bundanon Trust was established in March 1993 to develop Bundanon as a 'living arts centre' according to the principles agreed with the Boyd's, creating a platform for a cultural institution unique in Australia if not the world.
Making A Mark
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Posted October 10, 2008