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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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Research resources

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Facts about Margaret Jordan Patterson

   Publications  Book References:  36
Magazine References:  8

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8 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Margaret Jordan Patterson
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review 200 Years of Printmaking in Maine December 2006 Becker, David P. Yes
American Art Review Margaret J. Patterson: Master of Color & Design October 2006 Nickerson, Cindy Yes
American Art Review Provincetown: A Creative Colony March 2005 McCarthy, Christine Yes
American Art Review Women of Vision: Painting on Cape C April 2002 Archer, Joan Yes
American Art Review Women's Perspective at Boston Guild October 2001 Lightman, Jean; P Ingbretson Yes
American Art Review A Century of Impressionism on Cape August 1999 Nickerson, Cindy Yes
American Art Review American Artists Spanish Experience February 1999 Boone, M Elizabeth Yes
The Magazine Antiques Prints, Arts and Crafts Tradition September 1996 Leard, Lindsay Yes
36 Book References for Margaret Jordan Patterson
Year Author Title Pages Color
2009 Coe, Erin B. (Essay) An Enduring Legacy: American Impressionist Landscapes from the Thomas Clark Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Becker, David P. The Imprint of Place: Maine Printmaking 1800-2005
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Reis, Mary Clare; Lisa N. Peters et all Fine American Art from 1845 to 1960 (Spanierman Gallery, LLC
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
2004 Pyle, Amy (Spanierman Gallery) Art for the New Collector III Re-Emerging American Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
68 Yes
2002 Spanierman Gallery Art for the New Collector 1840-2001
(Exhibition catalog)
48 Yes
2002 Vose, Marcia L. (editor) Vose Art Notes Tenth Anniversary Issue Art and Collecting in America: An Illustrated Timeline 37 Yes
2001 Chatham Historical Society Picturing Chatham American Landscape Painting 1882-1971 48 Yes
2001 Hirshler, Erica E A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston, 1870-1940 227 Yes
2001 Peters, Lisa Two Hundred Years of American Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)
111 Yes
2001 Spanierman, Deborah (essay) 110 Years of American Art:1830-1940 (Spanierman Galleries, LLC)
(Exhibition catalog)
136 Yes
2000 Vose, Marcia L , editor Vose Art Notes Works on Paper 29 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Green, Nancy; Frederick Moffatt; Marilee Meyer, Richard Boyle, et all Arthur Wesley Dow: His Art and His Influence (Spanierman Gallery)
(Exhibition catalog)
210 Yes
1998 Boone, M Elizabeth Espana: American Artists and the Spanish Experience (Hollis Taggart Galleries)
(Exhibition catalog)
112 Yes
1997 The Dayton Art Institute American Art From the Dicke Collection 264 Yes
1995 Curtis, Jane and Will, Frank Lieberman, Carl Little (Foreward) Monhegan: The Artists' Island 192 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1991 Sternberg, Paul E Art by American Women Collection Louise and Alan Sellars
(Exhibition catalog)
146 Yes
1990 Acton, David A Spectrum of Innovation Color in American Printmaking 1890-1960
(Exhibition catalog)
304 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Lang, Gladys & Kurt Etched, in Memory The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation 437 No
1990 Sternberg, Paul E Centennial Exhibition 1889-1989 Members National Assoc Women Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
62 Yes
1990 Sternberg, Paul E Art by American Women
(Exhibition catalog)
17 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)
281 No
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