Margaret Jordan Patterson

Margaret Jordan Patterson
Born1867 (1867)
Soerabaija, Java, Dutch East Indies
Died1950 (aged 82–83)
Boston, Massachusetts
Known forPainting, Printmaking
MovementAmerican Arts and Crafts[1]

Margaret Jordan Patterson (1867–1950) was an American woodblock printmaker and painter.[2]

Early life and education

The daughter of a Maine sea captain, Patterson was born on board her father's ship near Surabaya, Java.[3] She then grew up in Boston and Maine.[2]

Her first art instruction came from a correspondence course given by the publisher Louis Prang.[3] She then studied at the Pratt Institute starting in 1895.[4][5] She also studied with Claudio Castellucho in Florence and Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa in Paris.[3]

She also developed friendships with the artists Arthur Wesley Dow and Charles Woodbury.[3] In 1910 she learned how to create color woodblock prints from Ethel Mars.[3]

Career

She later became head of the art department at Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and held that job until she retired in 1940.[4] She also worked as an art teacher in public schools in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.[5]

Some of her awards are honorable mention at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915, and a medal from the Philadelphia Watercolor Club in 1939.[5]

Her art is now held in the Cleveland Art Museum, the Oakland Art Museum,[5] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[6] The Minneapolis Institute of Art,[1] the Museum of Fine Arts Boston,[7] the Princeton University Art Museum,[8] the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [9] and the Victoria and Albert Museum.[10]

  • A Salt Creek, Cape Cod
  • Heartsease
  • Zinnias and Bachelor Buttons
  • Windblown Trees
  • Aunt Polly's Back Door

References

  1. ^ a b "Windblown Trees, Margaret Jordan Patterson". Minneapolis Institute of Art. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Vose Galleries - Margaret Jordan Patterson".
  3. ^ a b c d e Hirshler, Erica E. (2001). A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940. MFA Publications. p. 188.
  4. ^ a b "Eye Level: Q and Art: Margaret Jordan Patterson". Eye Level.
  5. ^ a b c d "Margaret Jordan Patterson (1867 - 1950) United States".
  6. ^ "Margaret Jordan Patterson". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  7. ^ "Summer flowers". Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  8. ^ "The Mill at Rugen". Princeton University Art Museum. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  9. ^ "Margaret Jordan Patterson". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  10. ^ "Patterson, Margaret Jordan". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 12 January 2025.

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