The Dixie Art Colony was an

art colony Art colonies are organic congregations of artists in towns, villages and rural areas, who are often drawn to areas of natural beauty, the prior existence of other artists, art schools there, or a lower cost of living. They are typically mission ...

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from 1933 to 1948.

History

The Dixie Art Colony was established by

John Kelly Fitzpatrick John Kelly Fitzpatrick (1888–1953) was a regionalist American painter from Alabama. Biography Early life John Kelly Fitzpatrick was born in 1888 in Wetumpka, Alabama.Rebecca Mark (ed.), Robert C. Vaughan (ed.), ''The South'', Westport, Co ...

(1888-1953), Sallie B. Carmichael and her daughter Warree Carmichael LeBron in 1933. The idea was to establish an

artist colony Art colonies are organic congregations of artists in towns, villages and rural areas, who are often drawn to areas of natural beauty, the prior existence of other artists, Art school, art schools there, or a lower cost of living. They are typica ...

to paint and train burgeoning artists in the South. From 1937, they met at Poka Hutchi ("gathering of picture writers" in Creek Indian parlance), a small cabin on Lake Jordan. Later, Frank W. Applebee, the Chair of the School of Art and Architecture at

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and a painter, joined the colony, as did

Genevieve Southerland Genevieve Southerland (died June 30, 1953) was an American painter. She was a member of the Dixie Art Colony, and she established the Coden Art Colony in 1950. She was the vice president of the Alabama Art League and the Water Color Society of A ...

Anne Goldthwaite Anne Goldthwaite (June 28, 1869 – January 29, 1944) was an American painter and printmaker and an advocate of women's rights and equal rights. Goldthwaite studied art in New York City. She then moved to Paris where she studied modern art, includ ...

and

Lamar Dodd Lamar Dodd (September 22, 1909 – September 21, 1996) was an American painter whose work reflected a love of the American South. Early life and education Born in Fairburn, Georgia, to Rev. Francis Jefferson Dodd and Etta Cleveland (Ed Dodd, cr ...

(1909-1996). The colony last met in 1948. Dixie Art Colony Foundation was founded in 2015 to reintroduce the art world to Kelly Fitzpatrick and Poka Hutchi.

References

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