Margaret Jordan Patterson

Margaret Jordan Patterson (1867-1950) was an American woodblock printmaker and painter.

The daughter of a Maine sea captain, Patterson was born upon board her father's boat near Surabaya, Java. She after that grew taking place in Boston and Maine.

Her first art opinion came from a correspondence course solution by the publisher Louis Prang. She then studied at the Pratt Institute starting in 1895. She in addition to studied like Claudio Castellucho in Florence and Ermengildo Anglada-Camrasa in Paris. She afterward developed friendships as soon as the artists Arthur Wesley Dow and Charles Woodbury. In 1910 she researcher how to Make color woodblock prints from Ethel Mars.

She well along became head of the art department at Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and held that job until she retired in 1940. She with worked as an art university in public schools in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Some of her awards are reliable mention at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, and a medal from the Philadelphia Watercolor Club in 1939. Her art is now held in the Cleveland Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Oakland Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.