Artists’ colonies
Rural or small-town locations where artists congregate in search of agreeable and stimulating companionship in pleasant surroundings. Often these places have been summer retreats, but some developed into year-round art centers. Originating partly in the appeal of landscape subjects and local color, they were particularly popular at the end of the nineteenth century and during the early twentieth century. Most have been informal, but as their artist populations grew, frequently such communities organized institutions including schools and galleries. The most important artists’ colonies include Old Lyme, Connecticut; Woodstock, New York; Provincetown, Massachusetts; and Taos, New Mexico, as well as New Hope and surrounding Bucks County, Pennsylvania.... ...
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