We strongly believe this is an original watercolor by Margaret Jordan Patterson (1867/77 - 1950). the only rerason we are attributing it is because it appears unsigned. This comes from a Baltimore paper art collection and the consigner is confident this is a Patterson 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. Born in Soerabaija, Java, Margaret Patterson is remembered primarily for her wood blocks, most now lost or destroyed. She also did highly colorful paintings, called a "celebration on canvas", and she worked in both watercolor and oil.Patterson attended school in Boston and taught public school art in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Southbridge, Massachusetts. She taught in the Boston Public Schools for almost twenty years, and in 1915 became the Director of the Art Department at the Dana hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, a position she held for thirty-five years. During her summers, she frequently traveled to Cape Cod.At the Pratt Institute, Arthur Wesley Dow was a major influence on her work. She also studied in Boston with Charles Woodbury, Hermann Dudley Murphy, and Charles Pepper. From 1900 to 1929, she made yearly trips to Europe to sketch for her prints, which were much influenced by Japanese art. For her color wood block printing, she developed an exacting procedure using only apple wood and grinding her own vegetable colors.Source:Joan Archer, "Women of Vision", American Art Review, April 2002, p. 146

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