Margaret Jordan Patterson

The daughter of a Maine sea captain, Patterson was born on board her father's ship near Surabaya, Java. She then grew up in Boston and Maine. She also studied with Claudio Castellucho in Florence and Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa in Paris. She also developed friendships with the artists Arthur Wesley Dow and Charles Woodbury. In 1910 she learned how to create color woodblock prints from Ethel Mars. == 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. The Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. ==Gallery==

A Salt Creek, Cape Cod.jpg|A Salt Creek, Cape Cod Margaret Jordan Patterson - Heartsease.jpg|Heartsease Margaret Jordan Patterson - Zinnias and Bachelor Buttons c.1920.jpg|Zinnias and Bachelor Buttons Margaret Jordan Patterson - Windblown Trees c.1920.jpg|Windblown Trees Margaret Jordan Patterson - Aunt Polly's Back Door SC188973.jpg|''Aunt Polly's Back Door'' ==References==