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Margaret Jordan Patterson

Margaret Jordan Patterson (1867/77 - 1950) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  Margaret Patterson is known for Landscape and still life painting, woodblock prints.

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Born in Soerabaija, Java, Margaret Patterson is remembered primarily for her wood blocks, most now lost or destroyed.  She also did highly colorful paintings, called a "celebration on canvas", and she worked in both watercolor and oil.

Patterson attended school in Boston and taught public school art in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Southbridge, Massachusetts.  She taught in the Boston Public Schools for almost twenty years, and in 1915 became the Director of the Art Department at the Dana hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, a position she held for thirty-five years. During her summers, she frequently traveled to Cape Cod.

At the Pratt Institute, Arthur Wesley Dow was a major influence on her work.  She also studied in Boston with Charles Woodbury, Hermann Dudley Murphy, and Charles Pepper.  From 1900 to 1929, she made yearly trips to Europe to sketch for her prints, which were much influenced by Japanese art.  For her color wood block printi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4812 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Margaret Jordan Patterson


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art MediaArt Style
  • Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
  • Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
  • Botanics, Plant Life
  • Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
  • Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
  • Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
  • Gardens, Garden Scenes
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
  • Seascapes, Seasides
  • Still Life
  • Street Scenes, Street Genre
  • Townscape, Village Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Cape Cod, Massachusetts
  • Europe
  • Monhegan Island, Maine
  • Northern California Before 1900
  • Ogunquit, Maine
  • Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • White Mountains, New Hampshire
Art Association
  • American Federation of Arts
  • Copley Society of Boston-
  • National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors
  • National Associaton of Women Painters & Sculptors
Art Teacher
  • Arthur Wesley Dow
  • Charles Woodbury
Art School
  • Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
  • Louise and Alan Sellars Collection
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Landscape Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/InternationalExhibition of Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
  • Boston Art Club-
  • Copley Society of Boston
  • National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors)
  • Provincetown Art Association
  • Woodstock NY Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art
  • Smithsonian Institution/Museums

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