April 6-September 30, 2018
Member’s Opening Gala: Thursday, April 5, 2018
Art ‘Round Town, Friday, April 6
at Discover Portsmouth

Anne W. Carleton, Beach Figures (also known as Hot Sand), 1930s. Photo by Jeremy Fogg.

Susan Ricker Knox, Ladd Doorway, ca. 1917. Photo by Jeremy Fogg.
While Gertrude Fiske and Susan Ricker Knox could sustain themselves painting, most women artists like Margaret J. Patterson and Anne Carleton taught for a living. Devoted to art in shaping their lives, these art teachers enjoyed their summers in European travel or in art colonies to advance their skills and enjoy the society of other women artists. Many women who painted the Portsmouth waterfront were Charles Woodbury’s Ogunquit students. In 1928 they founded and long sustained the Ogunquit Art Association by exhibiting at the Barn Gallery.

Margaret J. Patterson, Portsmouth Waterfront, ca.1900. Photo by Jeremy Fogg.