Morgan colt biography

Morgan Colt was.
Morgan Colt was one of the most versatile members of the New Hope Art Colony, successfully establishing himself as an artist, architect, designer and craftsman.
Colt was better known for crafts than for painting, but he did exhibit paintings with the New Hope Group in 19at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Detroit.

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Morgan Colt (1876 - 1926) Works

Morgan Colt (1876 – 1926)

A man of immense talent, Morgan Colt was one of the most versatile members of the New Hope Art Colony, successfully establishing himself as an artist, architect, designer and craftsman. He was born in Summit, New Jersey, in 1876. Colt received his degree from the Columbia University School of Architecture, and later he studied with William Lathrop near New Hope and at the Academie Julian in Paris.

He exhibited frequently at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the National Academy of Design, the Phillips Mill and at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Colt began his career as an architect in New York. He and his wife eventually decided to move to the New Hope area in 1911. They were attracted to the ruins of an ancient pigsty on artist William Lathrop’s property at Phillips Mill, just north of New Hope. Lathrop, who had taught Colt, sold them the parcel. Colt transformed the ruins in to the first of several unique homes bearing his architectural signat

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Morgan Colt (1876-1926) [RA 1913-1926]

Morgan Colt (1876-1926) [RA 1913-1926]

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Morgan Colt

art of the Pennsylvania School, impressionists who painted in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and who were regarded as the leading landscape school in the early part of the 20th century, Morgan Colt had joined the group in 1912. Along with Edward Redfield, Daniel Garber, Robert Spencer, Charles Rosen, William Lathrop and Rae Sloan Bredin, they eschewed modernism and exhibited together, calling themselves the New Hope Group.

Colt was better known for crafts than for painting, but he did exhibit paintings with the New Hope Group in 1916 and 1917 at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Detroit Art Institute, Corcoran Gallery, the Carnegie Institute and the Arlington Gallery in New York City. By 1929, many of these artists plus others exhibited together, calling themselves the New Hope Art Colony, but Colt died before their first exhibition, which was in May 1929.

Colt's background was architecture, which he had studied at Columbia University. Of him it was said that among the Pennsylvania School, he made more of a contribution as a craftsman than as a painter. He was born in Summit,