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Patterson, Margaret (1867-1950) Swans.
Circa 1915.
Color woodcut on handmade paper with thread margins, signed in pencil lower right; 180 x 267 mm; 7⅛ x 10⅛ in.
Patterson, daughter of a Maine boat captain, was born at sea on her father's ship near Java. Beginning in 1895, she studied painting at the Pratt Institute under Arthur Wesley Dow, a leader of the American color woodcut movement. In the same year, Dow mounted the first exhibit of color woodcuts by an American artist at the MFA in Boston. In 1912 or 1913 Patterson began her own foray into color woodcuts under the tutelage of Ethel Mars in Paris. Traveling to Europe frequently, she also continued to live and teach in New England. Her prints were shown in many Parisian exhibitions and are held by many institutions worldwide, including the MFA, Metropolitan, and Smithsonian.
