Rockwell Kent Cottage and Studio
The Rockwell Kent Cottage and Studio are two historic buildings on Monhegan Island, Maine, linked to artist Rockwell Kent. He built the cottage in 1906 and the studio in 1910, about 800 feet apart along a winding path. The cottage is a simple Cape-style, single-story house, while the studio is larger with Shingle Style touches and a large window to light the workspace.
Kent used the studio to paint and to run an art school with Julius Golz, creating some of his best-known works there. He left the island in 1910 and sold the cottage, which was rented to his cousin, artist Alice Kent Stoddard. In 1952 James E. Fitzgerald bought the studio and later the house. After Fitzgerald’s death in 1971, his friends and patrons cared for the property, and in 2004 the Monhegan Museum and Library received the buildings and Fitzgerald’s art. Today the site is a museum displaying his works; the historic house is open to visitors in the summer on a limited basis. The cottages were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. A 2007 symposium marked the 100th anniversary of the studio, with papers published by The Kent Collector through the Rockwell Kent Archives at SUNY Plattsburgh.
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