This painter and printmaker from Springfield, Kentucky, was trained in the United Kingdom and later studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute and the Maryland Art Institute.

In 1926, Celia Gregor Reid moved to Saint Augustine, Florida, and became one of the leading members of the art colony. Beginning in 1935, Reid contributed her artistic talents to the production of the Saint Augustine street festivals.

This particular print commemorates the Aviles Street Festival held March 19-20, 1948. The theme of the festival was a “Day in Spain.” Reid served as the chairman of festival design and decoration. In creating this blockprint, Reid placed the emphasis on surface design and patterns. The effect is a strong contrast of black and white. Reid offered this print to artist Tod Lindenmuth as a souvenir of the event. The Lindenmuths later donated “Fiesta” to the Saint Augustine Art Association to add to its permanent collection.

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Elizabeth Boardman (E.B) Warren, artist and illustrator, was a student of the Massachusetts School of Art and the Vesper George’s School of Art. She was trained as an illustrator and etcher, but her early medium of choice was watercolor. Warren created numerous watercolor views of New England and Florida.

She and her husband, artist Tod Lindenmuth, were active members of the Provincetown Art Association and the Saint Augustine Art Association.

During the late 1930s, Warren began to paint pastel portraits of children. The artist became best known in Saint Augustine, Florida, for her exquisite pastel portraits of young girls. It was a “social must” to commission her for a portrait. These works were greatly treasured and became heirlooms within the families. During her later years, Warren took up ink and brush drawing, etching and book illustration.

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Emmett Fritz was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1917. He attended the Phoenix Art Institute in New York and graduated from the Pratt Institute of Art. Fritz began his career as a commercial artist. After serving in the Army during WWII, he became a cartoonist and caricaturist.

Fritz had the opportunity to study under the iconic American illustrator Norman Rockwell through the correspondence course “Famous Artists.” Fritz was required to submit sketches, which were reviewed and critiqued by the instructor, Rockwell.

Around 1950, Fritz moved to Saint Augustine, Florida, joined the Saint Augustine Art Association and quickly became integrated into the artist community. Fritz painted in the Impressionist style. Using acrylics and oils, his subject matter was often the historic streets and landscapes of Saint Augustine. The artist operated a studio in the Riberia House on St. George Street where he personally greeted visitors who snatched up his affordable, colorful paintings. Over his forty-five year career in Saint Augustine, Fritz amazingly produced some 10,000 paintings.

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Frances (Franny) Howatt first trained in art at the Chaffee School For Girls under Madame Cheruy in her hometown of Windsor, Connecticut. She continued her studies as a pupil of Umberto Romano of the Umberto Romano School of Art in Gloucestor, Massachusetts.

In 1946 Howatt relocated to Saint Augustine, Florida, and became the student of John Pratten, formerly of Elizabethtown, New York, studying portraiture under him for three years. She received still life and landscape instruction from Charles Johnston. The scenes of Saint Augustine appear in many of her paintings.

In 1962, Howatt was credited with developing a new painting technique she tagged “intalgios in oil.” This process involved a combination of carving and painting. Howatt distressed wood panels by gouging and scraping with chisels. The rough surfaces were painted complementary to the designs created in the panels. The works were suitable for interior or exterior and most had historical or literary themes. Howatt was invited to show her intalgios in an invitational exhibit at the Lillian Phipps Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida.

An ardent supporter of the Saint Augustine Arts Club, Howatt and artist Tod Lindenmuth were members of the council that sponsored the first Arts and Crafts Festival in 1966. The festival’s mission was to foster the growth and development of the arts in Saint Augustine by providing a reciprocal exhibition to the public. The Arts and Crafts Festival continues to be a major event sponsored biannually by the Saint Augustine Art Association.

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Gladys V. Mitchell was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and was a member of the Santa Fe Artist Colony. She is best known for her Modernist landscape paintings of pueblos and figurative paintings of Native Americans. She worked in oil, watercolor and woodcut/woodblock. Mitchell experimented with material, color and texture. She painted with a vivid palette and began to introduce sand into her oils.

This still life is printed from etched lucite. Unlike etching on traditional materials like copper, etching on lucite creates a strong textural effect; the image appears almost embossed.

While a resident of Saint Augustine, Florida, Mitchell molded plastics into jewelry, which she sold from her home on Charlotte Street in the historic downtown.

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Originally from Pennsylvania, Harold Etter was a member of the Saint Augustine Art Association, and one of the Lost Colony artists. He worked in oils and watercolors, most often painting coastal landscapes. Though not well known outside of Saint Augustine, Florida, Etter taught classes in drawing and composition, and lectured on “Planning a Picture” at the Arts Club (now known as the Saint Augustine Art Association).

His Impressionistic style coincided with the new direction taken by the Arts Club in the 1940s. Robert Torchia states in Lost Colony: The Artists of St. Augustine, 1930-1950 that “the modernist faction’s influence [had] declined… as the Arts Club leadership became more conservative and the business community sought to attract more traditional artists to St. Augustine.” The Arts Club members tended to favor Impressionism and Regionalism. They found the landscapes and cityscapes appealed to the tourist market of Saint Augustine.

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Harold S. Maddocks’ oil painting of Spuds represents a small potato-farming community west of Saint Augustine, Florida. The artist was a landscape and seascape painter who worked in the conservative Impressionist style.

Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Maddocks was educated at the Massachusetts Normal School in Boston. Maddocks was an active member of both the Rockport Art Association and the Saint Augustine Arts Club. The artist offered weekly outdoor sketch classes at the Arts Club (now known as the Saint Augustine Art Association).

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Heinrich Pfeiffer was born in Pennsylvania and studied at the Art Students League of New York with traditional landscape painter John Carlson. He continued his studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Pfeiffer is best known for his colorful landscapes and coastal views painted in an Impressionist style. Pfeiffer maintained a strong presence in both the Florida and Provincetown, Massachusetts, art communities. The winters were spent in temperate Saint Augustine, Florida, where the artist worked from his studio located within the Old Fatio House garden in the historic downtown. Later in life, Pfeiffer offered outdoor oil and watercolor painting instruction at the Norton Art School in Palm Beach, Florida.

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J. (Julian) Courtenay Hunt was a versatile artist who worked in oils, pen and ink and pastels. His works include portraits, still lifes and landscapes. His color palette often explored the vivid shades of purple and red, as exemplified in this oil painting.

Hunt received his art education at the Ringling College of Art and Design and art training under Jerry Farnsworth in Cape Cod. Hunt exhibited one-man shows at the Palm Beach Gallery and at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida. He contributed to shows at the Norton Gallery in Palm Beach, the National Academy Gallery in New York and the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida. Hunt has pieces in the collection of the University of Florida and the Jacksonville Historical Society. The artist was also commissioned to paint a portrait of Andrew Jackson for the Jacksonville City Hall.

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John Pratten was a college professor and painter whose work decorates the Sea World entrance in Orlando, Florida. He married Daisy Bruce in 1924, and they settled in Poughkeepsie, New York. The Prattens were very active supporters of the Duchess County Art Association in New York. John Pratten created display advertising and taught portrait and landscape painting.

During the 1940s and 50s, the couple managed the Wayman Adams summer art school in Elizabethtown, New York.

The Prattens later moved to Saint Augustine, Florida, where John conducted art classes (which were attended by the painting’s model Frances Howatt) and was active in the city’s Art Association. Pratten served on the jury of many competitive shows held at the Association. Throughout his career, he garnered many awards for his excellence in portraiture. In 1955, he authored the book Portrait Painting for Beginners.

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Lorana Rogers was a scholarly artist. She studied at the Pratt Institute of New York, New York University, Columbia University and Cornell University. Until her retirement, Rogers spent twenty-five years as an art teacher in the New York City public schools. The artist exhibited her work at her studio in Alcott, New York.

As a winter resident of Saint Augustine, Florida, Rogers was a member of the Saint Augustine Art Association and offered watercolor painting classes while in town. She exhibited her works at The Brush and Palette gallery, alongside other Lost Colony artists such as Tod Lindenmuth, William L’Engle and E.B. Warren. The Spanish coquina fort (Castillo de San Marcos) was a favored spot for the Lost Colony artists’ plein air excursions.

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Bostonian Louis Kronberg studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Art Students League in New York. He spent much of his career in France, purchasing art for Isabella Stewart Gardner of the Gardner Museum in Boston.

Upon returning to the States, he became a prominent artist in Cape Ann, Massachusetts. One can’t help but surmise that Kronberg visited the exhibits of Frenchman Edgar Degas. This pastel draws direct comparisons to Degas’ Ballet series in both style and subject matter.

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Louise W. Shanks was born in Massachusetts and schooled in New England. Shortly after the premature death of her husband, she moved to Saint Augustine, Florida and became a member of the Saint Augustine artist colony.

Shanks worked in oils and is notable for her landscape and figurative paintings. She was a Representational artist until the 1940s, when she joined the Modernist faction of the Saint Augustine Arts Club (now known as the Saint Augustine Art Association), along with fellow local artists William L’Engle and Tod Lindenmuth.

The “Bal Masque” represents the first annual Beaux Art Ball, held in the Lightner Museum in 1949. The event was sponsored by the Association to raise money for its building fund. The theme of the ball was “A Night in Fairyland.” The figure in the red suit in the foreground won the prize for “most amusing costume” for her rendition of the Devil’s wife. This painting of Shanks’ is featured on the cover of Robert Torchia’s book Lost Colony: The Artists of St. Augustine, 1930-1950.

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Nunzio Vayana was born in Castelvetrano, Italy. He studied medicine and then art at the University of Rome. He immigrated to the United States in 1903, initially settling in Hartford, Connecticut. In the 1920s, Vayana founded the Ogunquit Art Center in Maine and served as its director for many years.

Vayana made his debut in Saint Augustine, Florida, in 1932. Then-President of the Saint Augustine Arts Club, Ralph Hillbom extended an invitation for the artist to hold a private two-week exhibition. This exclusive showing was held in the Davenport Park Clubhouse and featured 100 of Vayana’s paintings.

After the exhibition, Vayana continued to be relevant in Saint Augustine; however, his efforts were directed southward to Palm Beach, Florida, where he established the Palm Beach Art Center in the late 1930s. His intention for the art center was to provide assistance to other artists and a cultural outlet for the public.

Throughout his prolific career, Vayana remained an Impressionist painter, working primarily in small scale. The images in his art are pleasant, idyllic marine scenes, landscapes and portraits. A tell-tale identifier of a Vayana painting is his signature, which appears in red paint. Vayana immersed himself in the art lifestyle as a painter, etcher, teacher, promoter and fine art collector.

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Ralph Hillbom was employed as a commercial artist for the Saint Augustine, Florida, local daily newspaper The Record.

In the 1920s, Hillbom settled in Florida, and through the Arts Club (now known as the Saint Augustine Art Association), produced and promoted art. He has the distinction of serving as the Saint Augustine Arts Club’s first president, beginning his term in late 1931.

He delivered the mission of the Arts Club, announcing, “Painters, sculptors, writers, musicians, all the arts are welcome in the membership of the club. They will be most welcome, either local artists or those from out of the city. It will be our particular duty to attract outsiders here, and give them opportunities for local acquaintanceships, and a club home.” (Torchia, Robert. Lost Colony: The Artists of St. Augustine, 1930-1950, p.11)

Earlier in his career, Hillbom had been associated with the Woodstock artists. He painted the landscapes of Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine with other Woodstock artists, such as Walter Koeniger. The Woodstock community was regarded as a source of high-quality art during the decade of the Great Depression.

His painting style was Realistic and Representational. The subject of his oils was most often natural inland or coastal scenery. Hillbom’s work is also represented in the Lightner Museum, a collection that showcases the works of America’s Gilded Age.

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