Dixie Art Colony

The Dixie Art Colony was an art colony in Alabama from 1933 to 1948.

History

The Dixie Art Colony was established by John Kelly Fitzpatrick (1888-1953), Sallie B. Carmichael and her daughter Warree Carmichael LeBron in 1933.[1][2][3][4] The idea was to establish an artist colony to paint and train burgeoning artists in the South.[1]

From 1937, they met at Poka Hutchi ("gathering of picture writers" in Creek Indian parlance), a small cabin on Lake Jordan.[1][5] Later, Frank W. Applebee, the Chair of the School of Art and Architecture at Auburn University and a painter, joined the colony, as did Genevieve Southerland, Anne Goldthwaite and Lamar Dodd (1909-1996).[1][5]

The colony last met in 1948.[1]

Dixie Art Colony Foundation was founded in 2015 to reintroduce the art world to Kelly Fitzpatrick and Poka Hutchi.[6]

References
  1. "John Kelly Fitzpatrick". Encyclopedia of Alabama.
  2. Mark, Rebecca; Vaughan, Robert C. (2004). The South. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-313-32734-6.
  3. Olson, Ted (2004). CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, 2004. Mercer University Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-86554-866-4.
  4. Wood, Joe Allen Turner and Jan (2014). Wetumpka. Arcadia Publishing. p. 116. ISBN 978-1-4671-1124-9.
  5. "Kelly Fitzpatrick". The Johnson Collection, LLC.
  6. Harris, Mark. "Home". Dixie Art Colony Foundation.
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