Have You Found Your Arcadia?

1. The Ceramic Art of Beatrice Wood and George Ohr - Mama of Dada meets the Mad Potter of Biloxi.
2. Arcadian Cornish, New Hampshire - Cornish attracted a lively group of creative artists. Among them was the painter Maxfield Parrish, and sculptors Daniel French and Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
3. The Bauhaus and Marcel Breuer - Breuer, who was trained and taught at the legendary Bauhaus, was already a famous architect when he arrived in America. His work is still at the forefront of design as evidenced by his bent metal furniture and the Whitney Museum which is now part of the new Breuer Museum of Art (The Met Breuer).
4. Canadian Wilderness and the Group of Seven - This group of Canadian landscape painters were awestruck by their country’s majesty. Together, they pioneered a style that clearly speaks to the beauty of their rugged land.
5. Santa Fe, new Mexico and Its Mysteries - Sante Fe is a hotbed of Modernism where artists of all genres appear to have found a spiritual communion with the environment.
6. The nautical Allure of Provincetown, Massachusetts - Provincetown is an ancient fishing village that has become a painter's paradise and a writer’s exclusive private space.

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Have You Found Your Arcadia? II

Inspiration as Muse

1. Florida as Muse - The warmth of the air and the majestic waterways have always attracted visitors to Florida. Artists like Addison Mizner, the Highwaymen, Winslow Homer, Clyde Butcher, and designers, painters, sculptors and potters continue to migrate here to be inspired by the visual abundance of riches which they translate into works of art.
2. New York's Ashcan School - A group of early 20^th century American artists followed Robert Henri to New York City in order to paint the growing density of population, the living conditions, and burlesque theaters. Theirs was a rebellious outpouring against what they saw as silly Academic pictures. The work they produced was often about the grittier, more realistic, side of life. William Glackens, John Sloan, George Bellows and Edward Hopper were among them.
3. California Bay Area as Canvas - Californians and visitors to that golden state looked to this far western place to find meaningful sources for their work. The expectation was that a specifically Californian language of art would arise and grip their imaginations.
4. San Miguel de Allende, Mexico - San Miguel de Allende has had a long history as a haven for visual artists. This Mexican city has two major art institutions that attract professional and amateur painters, sculptors and printmakers with their on-going workshops. This destination is art personified.
5. Paris in the Twenties - For many art and literature lovers, the artistic community in France during the 1920s was history’s most glorious gathering of people in one place at one time.
6. London, England - Toward the middle of the 19^th century, a small group of artists in England reacted vigorously against what they felt was the “frivolous art of the day” – this reaction came to be called the Pre-Raphaelite movement.