Margaret Jordan Patterson

Margaret Jordan Patterson (1867–1950) was an American woodblock printmaker and painter.^[2]

Margaret Jordan Patterson
Born	1867 (1867) Soerabaija, Java, Dutch East Indies
Died	1950 (aged 82–83) Boston, Massachusetts
Known for	Painting, Printmaking
Movement	American Arts and Crafts[1]

Early life and education

The daughter of a Maine sea captain, Patterson was born on board her father's ship near Surabaya, Java.^[3] She then grew up in Boston and Maine.^[2]

Her first art instruction came from a correspondence course given by the publisher Louis Prang.^[3] She then studied at the Pratt Institute starting in 1895.^[4][5] She also studied with Claudio Castellucho in Florence and Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa in Paris.^[3]

She also developed friendships with the artists Arthur Wesley Dow and Charles Woodbury.^[3] In 1910 she learned how to create color woodblock prints from Ethel Mars.^[3]

Career

She later became head of the art department at Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and held that job until she retired in 1940.^[4] She also worked as an art teacher in public schools in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.^[5]

Some of her awards are honorable mention at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915, and a medal from the Philadelphia Watercolor Club in 1939.^[5]

Her art is now held in the Cleveland Art Museum, the Oakland Art Museum,^[5] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,^[6] The Minneapolis Institute of Art,^[1] the Museum of Fine Arts Boston,^[7] the Princeton University Art Museum,^[8] the Smithsonian American Art Museum, ^[9] and the Victoria and Albert Museum.^[10]

Gallery

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  A Salt Creek, Cape Cod
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  Heartsease
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  Zinnias and Bachelor Buttons
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  Windblown Trees
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  Aunt Polly's Back Door