{"id":21358,"date":"2020-04-14T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nha.org\/?page_id=21358"},"modified":"2020-06-05T14:48:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T18:48:55","slug":"the-nantucket-art-colony-1920-45","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nha.org\/whats-on\/exhibition\/digital-exhibitions\/the-nantucket-art-colony-1920-45\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nantucket Art Colony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>The Nantucket Art Colony, 1920-45<\/em> was a collaborative exhibition presented by the Nantucket Historical Association and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nantucketarts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Artists Association of Nantucket<\/a> at the Whaling Museum, June\u2013November, 2007.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Nantucket Art Colony came to life in the heart of maritime Nantucket &#8211; among the shacks, shanties, boathouses, and other old buildings that were the relics of the island\u2019s long-vanished whaling past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nha.org\/whats-on\/exhibition\/digital-exhibitions\/the-nantucket-art-colony-1920-45\/the-artists\/\">Meet the Artists <svg class=\"icon icon-caret-rt\"aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-caret-rt\" xlink:href=\"#icon-caret-rt\"><\/use> <\/svg><\/a><\/h4>\n<h3>The Nantucket Art Colony, 1920-45<\/h3>\n<p>Beginning in the early 1920s, Florence Lang converted many of these wharf shacks into studio spaces available for rent to artists in the summer months: Harborview, Wateredge, the Scallop, the Barnacle, Sailloft, Barnsite, and more. Frank Swift Chase, the painter and teacher who would become the \u201cdean of Nantucket artists,\u201d arrived in 1920. In 1924, Lang opened the Easy Street Gallery, converting an old cooper\u2019s shop into the island\u2019s first modern art gallery. Soon a group of artists, known as the \u201cwaterfront artists,\u201d arrived to study with Chase, to occupy the wharf studios, and to exhibit their work in August at the Easy Street Gallery- the Nantucket Art Colony was born. With the \u201cesprit de corps\u201d of the waterfront painters, and the influx of many talented visiting artists, the Art Colony flourished for the next two decades, bringing about a rebirth of the waterfront and a transformation at the heart of the island\u2019s identity from a whaling port dependent on the sea to a haven and harbor for the arts.<div class=\"expanding-container\"><div class=\"area-header\" style=\"border-top:none; margin-bottom:0;\"><button class=\"expand-toggle toggle-off\" style=\"color:#000; margin:0;\"><span style=\"text-transform:none;\"><strong>Continue Reading<\/strong> <\/span><svg class=\"icon icon-caret-down\"aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-caret-down\" xlink:href=\"#icon-caret-down\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Expand view <\/span><\/button><\/div><!-- .area-header --><div class=\"expand-contents\"><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition opened on May 26, 2007, and will remain on display through November 12, 2007, in the Peter Foulger Gallery, Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street.<\/p>\n<p>The Nantucket Art Colony, 1920-45 is a collaborative exhibition presented by the Nantucket Historical Association and the Artists Association of Nantucket, made possible with the generous support of the Nantucket Art Colony Honor Committee, and created with the assistance of many.<\/div><!-- .expand-contents --><\/div><!-- .expanding-container --><style>.expand-toggle.toggle-on {display: none;}<\/style><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Before the Art Colony: 1870\u22121910s<\/h2>\n<p>In the 1870s, as the nation began to recover from the psychic wounds inflicted by the Civil War, Nantucket was slowly reinventing itself as a holiday destination. Much of the island\u2019s appeal, in addition to its natural beauty and beaches, lay in the perception of it as a kind of living museum of the quaintness and charm of \u201cold times\u201d\u2212 of the simpler, preindustrial way of life that the war had destroyed. On Nantucket, this rustic charm was largely the effect of the demise of the great whaling era and the resulting islandwide depression that left much of the town, and the wharves in particular, wrapped in a ghostly aura of dereliction and decay.<div class=\"expanding-container\"><div class=\"area-header\" style=\"border-top:none; margin-bottom:0;\"><button class=\"expand-toggle toggle-off\" style=\"color:#000; margin:0;\"><span style=\"text-transform:none;\"><strong>Continue Reading<\/strong> <\/span><svg class=\"icon icon-caret-down\"aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-caret-down\" xlink:href=\"#icon-caret-down\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Expand view <\/span><\/button><\/div><!-- .area-header --><div class=\"expand-contents\"><\/p>\n<p>Such a setting provided an ideal opportunity for postwar artists, who discovered in Nantucket a gallery of old seafaring characters, dilapidated houses and barns, shoreline wrecks, and a general atmosphere of the simplicity and faded glory of the past. Already a nationally known artist, Eastman Johnson purchased a home on Nantucket in the early 1870s and began to paint many of his masterworks, including The Old Stage Coach and The Cranberry Harvest \u2212 Island of Nantucket, using Nantucket settings and subjects. These works attracted national attention, and inspired an ever-increasing flow of artists to visit the unique gemlike island thirty miles at sea.<\/p>\n<p>Many artists with Nantucket roots, including native genius James Walter Folger and Nantucket-descended Wendell Macy and William Ferdinand Macy, created impressive genre scenes capturing the spirit of the place. Most of those early artists were men, but as opportunities arose for women to receive formal artistic training in important centers of American art instruction such as the Art Students League in New York City, more and more women artists joined the pilgrimage. Some of them, like Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin, had Nantucket parentage; others, like Virginia Guild Sharp, married into Nantucket families; still others, like Annie Barker Folger, were born on the island. They all shared a fascination with the island\u2019s physical beauty, its relics of the past, and the overall way of life that made Nantucket in the postwar era an ideal subject of their paintings.<\/div><!-- .expand-contents --><\/div><!-- .expanding-container --><style>.expand-toggle.toggle-on {display: none;}<\/style><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>The Vision of an Art Colony<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21808\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/AAN-18-Hoffmeier-Black-and-Green-Boats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21808\" src=\"https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/AAN-18-Hoffmeier-Black-and-Green-Boats-350x284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/AAN-18-Hoffmeier-Black-and-Green-Boats-350x284.jpg 350w, https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/AAN-18-Hoffmeier-Black-and-Green-Boats-150x122.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/AAN-18-Hoffmeier-Black-and-Green-Boats-768x622.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/AAN-18-Hoffmeier-Black-and-Green-Boats.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black and Green Fishing Boat, ca. 1940<br \/>Emily L. Hoffmeier (1888-1952)<br \/>Oil on canvas<br \/>Permanent Collection of the Artists Association of Nantucket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The step from a loose group of like-minded artists and friends working on Nantucket in the 1900s and 1910s to a self-conscious and self-styled \u201cArt Colony\u201d was made by one remarkable individual: Florence Lang, an amateur painter and patron of the arts from Montclair, New Jersey, and a Nantucket summer resident. In the late 1910s, Lang turned her eye upon the loose collection of old wharves that made up the Nantucket waterfront\u2014the shacks, shanties, and boathouses from the island\u2019s long-vanished whaling and fishing heyday, now idly soaking in the sea air. Out of those ghostly remains, Lang\u2019s vision of a future Art Colony was born.<div class=\"expanding-container\"><div class=\"area-header\" style=\"border-top:none; margin-bottom:0;\"><button class=\"expand-toggle toggle-off\" style=\"color:#000; margin:0;\"><span style=\"text-transform:none;\"><strong>Continue Reading<\/strong> <\/span><svg class=\"icon icon-caret-down\"aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-caret-down\" xlink:href=\"#icon-caret-down\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Expand view <\/span><\/button><\/div><!-- .area-header --><div class=\"expand-contents\"><\/p>\n<p>Beginning in 1917 with the purchase of South Wharf, Florence and her husband, Henry, bought large tracts of land along Washington Street Extension and South Beach, as well as portions of Commercial (Swain\u2019s) Wharf and Easy Street. They converted the shacks that populated the wharf properties into modest but workable studios and offered them for rent in the summer months for reasonable rates, in the range of fifty to seventy dollars. Lang\u2019s plan was to create a casual atmosphere that would allow visiting artists to experiment, share studio space, socialize, discuss their art, and embark on field trips to distant sketching spots.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the necessary studio spaces, Florence Lang also created Nantucket\u2019s first art galleries, in the modern sense. In the early 1920s, she purchased a former spermaceti candlehouse at the foot of Commercial Wharf and turned the structure into the island\u2019s first gallery\u2014the Candle House Studio. Exhibitions at the Candle House included regular solo and group shows during the height of the summer. Many of Lang\u2019s resident artists, known as the \u201cwaterfront artists,\u201d exhibited here in the 1920s and beyond. With the success of the Candle House, another outworn structure caught Florence Lang\u2019s eye: an old cooper\u2019s shop that had been used as \u201cHayden\u2019s Saltwater Bathhouse,\u201d located near the Yacht Club. Lang purchased the building, moved it to Easy Street, and opened its doors in 1924 as the Easy Street Gallery, which immediately became the premier venue for the Nantucket Art Colony and continued to serve as its hub into the 1940s. Lang\u2019s visionary developments set the stage for the future of the arts on the island, and created the necessary conditions for the emergence of Nantucket as an Art Colony.<\/div><!-- .expand-contents --><\/div><!-- .expanding-container --><style>.expand-toggle.toggle-on {display: none;}<\/style><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>The Art Colony Wharf Studios<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21909\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21909\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/salt-3-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21909\" src=\"https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/salt-3--350x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/salt-3--350x288.jpg 350w, https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/salt-3--150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/salt-3--768x632.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/salt-3-.jpg 972w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drying Nets, ca. 1920s<br \/>Elizabeth Saltonstall (1900-1990)<br \/>Oil on canvas<br \/>Collection of G. West Saltonstall &amp; Endicott P. Saltonstall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Henry and Florence Lang purchased South Wharf and portions of Commercial Wharf, the future direction of the waterfront lay in their hands. On South Wharf (Island Service Wharf ), they founded the Island Service Company, supplying gasoline, coal, ice, and other essentials from a large warehouse at the end of the wharf. The wharf, warehouse, and the company vessel named Nantisco (for Nantucket Island Service Company) would be captured in many a canvas by the artists of the colony.<div class=\"expanding-container\"><div class=\"area-header\" style=\"border-top:none; margin-bottom:0;\"><button class=\"expand-toggle toggle-off\" style=\"color:#000; margin:0;\"><span style=\"text-transform:none;\"><strong>Continue Reading<\/strong> <\/span><svg class=\"icon icon-caret-down\"aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-caret-down\" xlink:href=\"#icon-caret-down\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Expand view <\/span><\/button><\/div><!-- .area-header --><div class=\"expand-contents\"><\/p>\n<p>Florence Lang\u2019s vision for the transformation of cottages on Commercial Wharf and other scattered spots along the waterfront from old shacks to artist studios was pivotal for the Art Colony. Her renovated wharf studios were minimally equipped, with cots, soapstone sinks, and shared toilets and showers. Each cottage possessed a charming nickname, such as Wateredge (the longtime studio of Elizabeth Saltonstall), Harborview, the Scallop, the Barnacle, Sailloft, and Barnsite. With rents as low as fifty to seventy dollars per season, as the Boston Herald gasped, it was easy to \u201crealize why Nantucket artists are still rubbing their eyes and wondering if it\u2019s really true!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although many artists also lived away from the water, the true heart of the Art Colony was to be found among the \u201cwaterfront artists,\u201d who developed a magical camaraderie and \u201cesprit de corps,\u201d and later played crucial roles in the future of arts organizations on Nantucket, including the Kenneth Taylor Galleries and the Artists Association of Nantucket. In the early 1940s, one of this corps, Ruth Haviland Sutton, purchased the Commercial Wharf property from the Langs and carried on the practice of renting studio space to artists. Island Service Wharf continued to operate until its sale to Sherburne Associates in 1964.With the Langs\u2019 help, Nantucket\u2019s whaling wharves launched a generation of Nantucket artists, who brought about a rebirth of the waterfront and a transformation at the heart of the island\u2019s identity from an economic hub dependent on the sea to a haven and harbor for the arts.<\/div><!-- .expand-contents --><\/div><!-- .expanding-container --><style>.expand-toggle.toggle-on {display: none;}<\/style><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>The Easy Street Gallery (1924-1943)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21543\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/AAN-1-Beer-Easy-Street.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21543 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/AAN-1-Beer-Easy-Street-350x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/AAN-1-Beer-Easy-Street-350x228.jpg 350w, https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/AAN-1-Beer-Easy-Street-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/AAN-1-Beer-Easy-Street-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/AAN-1-Beer-Easy-Street.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Easy Street Gallery, ca. 1935<br \/>Doris Riker Beer (1898-1967)<br \/>Watercolor Permanent Collection of the Artists Association of Nantucket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Located on the gentle curve of Easy Street between Steamboat Wharf and Old North Wharf where the Nantucket Railroad once ran, overlooking the Easy Street Basin, the legendary Easy Street Gallery dominated the art scene on Nantucket for nearly twenty years during the height of the early Art Colony. From its first season in 1924 until just before the formation of the Kenneth Taylor Galleries and the Artists Association of Nantucket in 1945, the Easy Street Gallery hosted annual exhibitions featuring the work of major, and minor, Art Colony artists, alongside works of visiting and itinerant painters.<div class=\"expanding-container\"><div class=\"area-header\" style=\"border-top:none; margin-bottom:0;\"><button class=\"expand-toggle toggle-off\" style=\"color:#000; margin:0;\"><span style=\"text-transform:none;\"><strong>Continue Reading<\/strong> <\/span><svg class=\"icon icon-caret-down\"aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-caret-down\" xlink:href=\"#icon-caret-down\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Expand view <\/span><\/button><\/div><!-- .area-header --><div class=\"expand-contents\"><\/p>\n<p>The inspiration for the Easy Street Gallery came once more from Florence Lang, who, according to one critic, \u201cmade a study of the Art Colony at Provincetown.\u201d When the Langs opened the gallery\u2019s doors in 1924, the Inquirer and Mirror reported: \u201cSo beautifully has it been transformed into a really fine picture gallery\u2026sky-lighted with a charming little mezzanine gallery overlooking the main one, it becomes a fine institution dedicated to the cause of Art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Exhibitions at the Easy Street Gallery were genteel affairs\u2014only tea was served\u2014in sharp contrast to the gallery scene that developed after the war, and to the more politicized air of some contemporary colonies. Shows at the Easy Street Gallery ran typically for the month of August, with exhibition rosters that included all of the major figures of the period: Frank Swift Chase and his remarkable corps of students\u2014among them Anne Ramsdell Congdon, Ruth Haviland Sutton, Emily Hoffmeier, Elizabeth Saltonstall, Isabelle Tuttle, Gertrude Monaghan, and Harriet Lord\u2013and other significant talents including Tony Sarg, Walter Gilman Page, Inna Garsoian, Henry S. Eddy, and Edgar Jenney. Prominent visiting artists such as Richard Hayley Lever and Volney A. Richardson also showed frequently. Hundreds of artists exhibited their work on the gallery\u2019s walls in its twenty-year existence. The Easy Street Gallery represented the heart of the Art Colony at its peak.<\/div><!-- .expand-contents --><\/div><!-- .expanding-container --><style>.expand-toggle.toggle-on {display: none;}<\/style><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>The Sidewalk Art Show<\/h2>\n<p>Founded in 1930 by society illustrator and painter Maud Stumm (ca. 1870-1935), the Sidewalk Art Show was an outdoor exhibition mounted every August for several days, originally along the walls of the Atheneum, but later on the Sanford building at Broad and Federal streets. Open to all artists, amateur or professional, the show attracted hundreds of visitors to admire and peruse the often freshly painted works by island artists. It featured the work of as many as fifty artists at a time, with up to three hundred works on display.<div class=\"expanding-container\"><div class=\"area-header\" style=\"border-top:none; margin-bottom:0;\"><button class=\"expand-toggle toggle-off\" style=\"color:#000; margin:0;\"><span style=\"text-transform:none;\"><strong>Continue Reading<\/strong> <\/span><svg class=\"icon icon-caret-down\"aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-caret-down\" xlink:href=\"#icon-caret-down\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Expand view <\/span><\/button><\/div><!-- .area-header --><div class=\"expand-contents\"><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21714\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sidewalk-art-show-p12786.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21714 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sidewalk-art-show-p12786-1024x659.jpg\" alt=\"Side Walk Art Show\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sidewalk-art-show-p12786-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sidewalk-art-show-p12786-350x225.jpg 350w, https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sidewalk-art-show-p12786-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sidewalk-art-show-p12786-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sidewalk-art-show-p12786.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sidewalk art show, with art work exhibited on the side of the Atheneum, and many people viewing the works. <a href=\"https:\/\/nantuckethistory.org:443\/permalink\/?key=6000_i8901\">PH165<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Sidewalk Art Show was a phenomenal success. The Inquirer and Mirror credited it with being the first of its kind in the nation, and called Nantucket \u201cthe cradle of the movement which has brought art \u2026 to the \u2018man on the street.\u2019\u201d In its first year, some three hundred people visited the exhibition, which included works by more than twenty painters. The Inquirer and Mirror reviewer wrote: \u201cThe wide shady walk by the library was an ideal place to examine and discuss Art and the beauty of Nantucket, which was the principal subject of the oil, water-color, black and white studies displayed. Little children, tourists, sailors, townspeople came again and again, eagerly examining the varied aspects of the Island, and deciding which was truest to life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily Hoffmeier took over the direction of the Sidewalk Art Show after Stumm\u2019s death in 1935, and continued the tradition at the Sanford building for many years. The Sidewalk Art Show became a regular offering of the Artists Association of Nantucket, a popular feature of the art landscape on Nantucket into the 1980s.<\/div><!-- .expand-contents --><\/div><!-- .expanding-container --><style>.expand-toggle.toggle-on {display: none;}<\/style><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/nha.org\/whats-on\/exhibition\/digital-exhibitions\/the-nantucket-art-colony-1920-45\/the-artists\/\">Meet the Artists <svg class=\"icon icon-caret-rt\"aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-caret-rt\" xlink:href=\"#icon-caret-rt\"><\/use> <\/svg><\/a><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Exhibition Sponsors and Credits<\/h2>\n<p>The Nantucket Art Colony, 1920-45 is a collaborative exhibition presented by the Nantucket Historical Association and the Artists Association of Nantucket.<\/p>\n<h4>This exhibition was made possible with the generous support of the Nantucket Art Colony Honor Committee:<\/h4>\n<div  class=\"lgc-column lgc-grid-parent lgc-grid-50 lgc-tablet-grid-50 lgc-mobile-grid-100 lgc-equal-heights \"><div  class=\"inside-grid-column\">Thomas J. &amp; Patricia S. Anathan<br \/>\nJohn W. Brewer<br \/>\nBob &amp; Judy Brust<br \/>\nLaura &amp; Bill Buck<br \/>\nLaurie &amp; Bob Champion<br \/>\nMargaret Childs<br \/>\nMeredith &amp; Eugene Clapp<br \/>\nRichard &amp; Amanda Congdon<br \/>\nMr. &amp; Mrs. Earl M. Craig Jr.<br \/>\nRaymond I. Dawson Jr.<br \/>\nKathryn &amp; Jim Ketelsen<br \/>\nArthur &amp; Sara Jo Kobacker<br \/>\nPeter &amp; Bonnie McCausland<\/div><\/div>\nSally &amp; Peter Nash<br \/>\n<div  class=\"lgc-column lgc-grid-parent lgc-grid-50 lgc-tablet-grid-50 lgc-mobile-grid-100 lgc-equal-heights \"><div  class=\"inside-grid-column\">Mr. &amp; Mrs. Jeffrey M. Peek<br \/>\nKathryn &amp; Roger Penske<br \/>\nEllen &amp; David Ross<br \/>\nBonnie &amp; Peter Sacerdote<br \/>\nG. West &amp; Victoria G. Saltonstall<br \/>\nDavid &amp; Barbara Spitler<br \/>\nGenevieve &amp; Richard Tucker<br \/>\nMarilyn J. Whitney<br \/>\nStephanie &amp; Jay Wilson<br \/>\nMr. &amp; Mrs. Robert Young<br \/>\nMr. &amp; Mrs. Richard Congdon<\/div><\/div><div class=\"lgc-clear\"><\/div>\n<h4>We would also like to thank the following for their invaluable loans of artwork and assistance in exhibit preparation:<\/h4>\n<div  class=\"lgc-column lgc-grid-parent lgc-grid-50 lgc-tablet-grid-50 lgc-mobile-grid-100 lgc-equal-heights \"><div  class=\"inside-grid-column\">Nancy Tuttle Adam<br \/>\nJeff Allen Photography<br \/>\nMax and Heidi Berry<br \/>\nJohn Brewer<br \/>\nMeredith and Eugene Clapp<br \/>\nFlorence Clifford<br \/>\nMr. &amp; Mrs. Richard Congdon and Family<br \/>\nSusan DuPree<br \/>\nFrances Elder<br \/>\nRobert Frazier<br \/>\nGarth Grimmer<br \/>\nNina and Bob Hellman<br \/>\nGeorge S. Heyer Jr.<br \/>\nJavatime Design<br \/>\nKathleen Knight<br \/>\nPaul LaPaglia<br \/>\nRen\u00e9 and Erma LaPierre<\/div><\/div>\n<div  class=\"lgc-column lgc-grid-parent lgc-grid-50 lgc-tablet-grid-50 lgc-mobile-grid-100 lgc-equal-heights \"><div  class=\"inside-grid-column\">Deborah Lehan<br \/>\nPalmer LeRoy<br \/>\nReggie Levine<br \/>\nLuce Group, Inc.<br \/>\nPaul Madden<br \/>\nRichard Mallen<br \/>\nPeter &amp; Sally Nash<br \/>\nNancy Newhouse<br \/>\nNovation Media<br \/>\nGrace Tuttle Noyes<br \/>\nElizabeth Oldham<br \/>\nG. West Saltonstall<br \/>\nEndicott P. 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