biografía de Margaret Jordan PATTERSON (1867-1950)

Lugar de nacimiento: at sea, off Soerabaija, Java

Lugar de defunción: Boston, MA

Direcciones: Boston, MA

Profesión: Painter, block printer, teacher

Estudios: possibly with with A.W. Dow in Boston, early 1890s; C.H. Woodbury, in Boston, Ogunquit, Maine & Europe; Pratt Inst., 1895; Castellucho & Augalada in Paris; woodblock printing with Ethel Mars in Paris, 1913; Hermann Dudley Murphy

Exposiciones: Boston AC, 1899, 1900-03, 1920; PAFA Ann., 1902; AIC, 1902-30 (15 annuals); Copley Gal., Boston 1910 (solo), 1912 (solo), 1914 (solo); Gal. Levesque, Paris, 1913 (solo); Gal. Barbazanges, Paris, 1913 (solo); H.D. Murphy"s Copley Hall Studio, 1914 (solo); L. Katz Gal., NYC, 1914 (solo); Pan-Pacific Expo, San Fran., 1915 (hon. men. for woodcuts); Doll & Richards Gal., Boston, 1919; Worcester AM, 1919 (Paintings by "The Group"); Grace Horne Gal., Boston, 1920; Goodspeed"s, Boston, 1922-24 (solos); Brown-Robertson Gal., NYC, 1923 (duo with Eliza D. Gardiner); Sesqui Centennial Int. Expo, Phila., 1926; Gld. Boston Artists, 1926 (solo), 1928 (solo); Brooklyn Mus., 1933; Phila. WCC, 1939 (Dawson medal); NMAA, 1983-84 ("Provincetown Printers" exh.); Steven Thomas, Woodstock, VT, 1986 (solo); Bakker Gal., Cambridge, MA, 1988, 1990 (retrospectives); Charles H. Woodbury and His Students," Ogunquit Mus. Am. Art, 1998"

Asociaciones: Boston SWCP (secy.); AFA; Copley Soc., 1900; Boston Guild Artists; Phila. WCC; Calif. PM; Providence WCC; Color Block PM; The Group (Boston), 1920s; NAWA

Obra: BMFA; LOC; Oakland (CA) Art Mus.; MMA; Univ. Calif.; Smith College; CMA; Mus.; Springfield (MA) Pub. Lib.; RISD; Victoria & Albert Mus., London; Print Coll., Mus., Genoa, Italy

Comentarios: Best known for her landscapes and floral still life works in color woodblock prints and gouache. Her work was strongly influenced by Japonisme. Patterson is remembered as an important figure in woodblock printing. She made her first color woodblock print in 1911, using only apple wood for her blocks and grinding her own natural and vegetable colors. She taught drawing in the Boston Public Schools, 1898-1915; then became head of the art dept., Dana Hall Sch., Wellesley, MA, 1915-40; also founded a summer school in Monhegan (ME). She traveled throughout Italy annually, 1922-29. She painted in Belgium, Holland, France, Spain, and at the artist colonies at Cape Ann (MA), Cape Cod (MA), Ogunquit (ME), and Monhegan Island (ME). Previous birth dates of 1868 and 1869 in various sources are incorrect. Signature note: Her earlier signature (c.1899-1919) tends to be precise, whether as initials or fully printed out in block letters; it becomes looser in the 1920s.

Fuentes: WW40; exh. cat., Bakker Antiques (Cambridge, MA, 1988); Charles Woodbury and His Students; Pisano, One Hundred Years...the National Association of Women Artists, 76; Falk, Exh. Record Series.