Margaret Jordan Patterson

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. Patterson died in 1950.

Exhibitions:
Copley Gallery Boston 1910
Solo exhibit at gallery Levesque Paris 1913
Panama-Pacific Expo, San Francisco 1915
Vose Galeries, Boston,1917 (see note)
Doll and Richards Boston 1919
Goodspeed's Bookshop Boston 1921
Guild Boston Artists 1926
Philadelphia Watercolor Club 1939
Medal James R. Bakker, Boston 1988 & 1990
Retrospective Exhibition Prints exhibits at:Berlin Photographic Company, NYC Brown Robertson Gallery, NYC Provincetown Printmakers Steven Thomas, VT (1986)1st catalogued restrospective of prints

Works in:
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Oakland Art Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
University of California
Smith College
Cleveland Museum of Art
Springfiled (mass) Public Library
Rhode Island School of Design
Victoria and Albert Museum Museum, Genoa Italy
Library of Congress

Submitted by Bakker Gallery