Heart and Soul of the Cornish Colony (In-person)

Heart and Soul of the Cornish Colony (In-person)

Fall (14 hours or more) | Available (Membership Required)

One Court Street Lebanon, NH 03766 United States
Room 2A
9/11/2024-11/6/2024
1:00 PM-3:00 PM EDT on Wed
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$90.00

Heart and Soul of the Cornish Colony (In-person)

Fall (14 hours or more) | Available (Membership Required)

This course focuses on the artwork and primary source material that best reveals what was most precious to the over forty founding members of the Cornish Colony.

In its halcyon and most artistically productive years, 1884-1916, Little New York (as they called their community) was a vibrant society of families and friends who were exceptional artists, writers, musicians, and patrons. Our primary focus is the art, journals, and essays of the women of the Colony, including Lydia Parrish, Frances Houston, Lucia Fairchild Fuller, Maria Oakey Dewing, Laura Marquand Walker, Rose Nichols, Ellen Shipman, Bessie Vonnoh, Margaret Shurcliff, Frances Duncan, and Frances Grimes.

This course will include lecture and discussions; class participants are encouraged to explore primary source materials suggested by the Study Leader

 

  • Optional Book:
    • Footprints of the Past - Colby and Atkinson (ISBN-13: 978-0915916221)

    Note: Optional but Urged! Out of Print, but available in libraries and through SGNHP in Cornish and Amazon, El Libris, Abe Books.

Evarts, Jo
Jo Evarts

A double major in English and History of Art, Jo Evarts was a Wellesley College Scholar in the Class of 1972. She earned her EdM with distinction at Harvard in 1982. She has taught English, History of Art, European and American History, and Literature throughout her adult life. From 1990-2022, Evarts and her late husband Jerry staged annual Shakespeare productions with youth, ages 5-20. She is also a writer: The Complete Hoot, a non-fiction study of Maxfield Parrish, and, currently, a novel.