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Margaret Jordan Patterson was born in 1867 aboard her father's ship off the coast of Java. She studied with Arthur Wesley Dow and Charles Woodbury with whom she traveled to Europe at the turn of the century. She later became his teaching assistant and also had her own summer school in Monhegan, Maine. She gained prominence in color woodblock printing which she learned from Ethel Mars in Paris. She exhibited widely and sold her prints through Doll and Richards and Goodspeed's in Boston. She taught art at Dana Hall and also took students to Italy for private summer instruction.
Margaret Jordan Patterson
American, 1868 - 1950
Margaret Jordan Patterson was born in 1867 aboard her father's ship off the coast of Java. She studied with Arthur Wesley Dow and Charles Woodbury with whom she traveled to Europe at the turn of the century. She later became his teaching assistant and also had her own summer school in Monhegan, Maine. She gained prominence in color woodblock printing which she learned from Ethel Mars in Paris. She exhibited widely and sold her prints through Doll and Richards and Goodspeed's in Boston. She taught art at Dana Hall and also took students to Italy for private summer instruction.
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American, 1878 - 1960