Ste. Genevieve Art Colony

The Ste. Genevieve Art Colony was an art collective in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. It was founded in 1932 by Aimee Schweig, Bernard E. Peters, and Jessie Beard Rickly.[1] The Ste. Genevieve Summer School of Art was established in 1934. The colony was modeled on its most recent predecessor, the Provincetown Art Colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as well as The Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art on Long Island, New York, the New Hope School in Pennsylvania, and the Taos art colony in New Mexico. The location of Ste. Genevieve contained rural vistas and genre scenes yet was close to the metropolitan Saint Louis area.[2]

Ste. Genevieve Art Colony
Formation1932
Dissolved1941 (1941)
Purposeprivate art academy
Location
  • Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

The group expanded to include other Saint Louis artists including Frank Nuderscher, Joe Jones, and Thomas Hart Benton.[3] The colony attracted many Midwestern artists with the styles of painting including American regionalism, Social realism, plein air and the new Abstract art.[4][1][5]

The colony dissolved in 1941.[6]

Associated artists

Artists closely associated with the colony include:[6]

Legacy

In 2004 a study of the colony entitled An American art colony : the art and artists of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1930-1940 was published.[7] In 2011 the Museum of Art and Archaeology in Columbia, Missouri held a retrospective exhibition entitled A Midwestern View: The Artists of the Ste. Genevieve Art Colony.[1]

References
  1. Danielsen, Aarik. "Small Ste. Genevieve colony shaped an entire country's view of the Midwest". Columbia Daily Tribune. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  2. Dick, R. H.; Kerr, Scott (2004). An American art colony : the art and artists of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1930-1940. St. Louis, Mo.: McCaughen & Burr Press. pp. 19–26. ISBN 978-0976242406.
  3. St Louis Sage (December 16, 2021). "What was the Ste. Genevieve art colony?". St. Louis Magazine. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  4. "The Ste. Genevieve Art Colony". St. Louis Mercantile Library. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  5. Dick, R. H.; Kerr, Scott (2004). An American art colony : the art and artists of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1930-1940. St. Louis, Mo.: McCaughen & Burr Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0976242406.
  6. "Ste. Genevieve Art Colony". Missouri Remembers. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  7. Gerard, Gregory Thomas. "Saint Genevieve Art Colony, 1930-1940". Color & Light. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
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