Morgan Colt

Morgan Colt (11 September 1876 – 12 June 1926) was an architect, traditional furniture craftsman and impressionist painter. Much of his play a part was accidentally destroyed after his death.

Morgan Colt was born in Summit, New Jersey, on 11 September 1876.
He attended Columbia University and approved as an architect.
He expert this profession in New York City.

In 1912 Colt moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania, so he could dedicate his get older to art.
He built a houseboat, the Deewaydin, meaning to live upon it subsequently his wife upon the Delaware Canal.
That turned out not to be practical. They moved into a house for a while.
He subsequently rented a barn that had housed pigs on the farm of his buddy William Langson Lathrop at Phillips Mill, and converted it into a house and studio.
The home was truth a Tudor style.

Morgan after that began to construct his "Little English Village" (which he had written on the endowment to his property).

Colt's little English village consisted of seven English cottages of various English architectural styles. Colt built an English Gatehouse cottage which is connected to the large Medieval iron log on at the front of his property and where whatever the New Hope Place residents can see as they drive subsequent to the Phillips Mill.

Then touching backwards onto Colt's Tiny English village Colt built an English carriage house. Going back through unusual set of iron gates Colt then built his Gothic-style artist-studio (where he painted), Colt and his wife had found an obsolete English abbey that was in destroy and dismantled everything the wooden Gothic trusses and took molds of this ancient structure’s interior and shipped them assist to New Hope, barged them going on the canal and to their current location in Colts Gothic studio. across from that Colt built his Gothic iron Forge (where he made anything his iron furniture and extra things iron), then down the village walkway that Colt built out of cast concrete, Colt built his brick English Tudor style woodworking shop where he made anything his beautiful wood furniture and chests whatever carved afterward Gothic English tracery.

In addition to Colt’s paintings, many of his wooden furniture and chests are in Museums and private collections too. and just across from the woodworking shop Colt built the most beautiful Norman French style cottage which he used as his dog kennel. All through Colt's Little English village you can look his beautiful wooden hand carved English tracery on whatever his cottages and main house. Colt's entire property is a put-on of art and should be preserved and protected.

Colt was influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement, and intended and made wood and iron furniture using acknowledged techniques.
He also proficient landscape painting.
In 1916 Colt, Lathrop, Rae Sloan Bredin, Charles Rosen, Daniel Garber and Robert Spencer formed The New Hope Group to arrange exhibitions of their work.
Colt supplementary more buildings to his property in 1919 which he called the Gothic Shops, and in which he exhibited his furniture and metalwork.

Morgan Colt died in New Hope, Pennsylvania, on 12 June 1926.
He was aged forty-nine.

Colt was known more as a craftsman than a painter. He specialized in hand-wrought iron garden furniture and flame screens.
He did exhibit like the New Hope Group in 1916-17 at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Detroit Art Institute, Corcoran Gallery, Carnegie Institute and Arlington Gallery in New York City.
His painting Canal Boat was praised for its quality. Much has been lost.
After his death the purchaser of his property destroyed most of the paintings he found there, not bargain what they were worth.

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