{{short description|American painter}} {{Infobox artist | name = Margaret Jordan Patterson | image = Photo of Margaret Jordan Patterson.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth-date|1867}} | birth_place = Soerabaija, Java, Dutch East Indies | death_date = {{Death year and age|1950|1867}} | death_place = Boston, Massachusetts | nationality = | education = Pratt Institute | field = Painting, Printmaking | training = | movement = American Arts and Crafts<ref name="Minneapolis Institute of Art">{{cite web |title=Windblown Trees, Margaret Jordan Patterson |url=https://collections.artsmia.org/art/131343/windblown-trees-margaret-jordan-patterson |website=Minneapolis Institute of Art |access-date=12 January 2025}}</ref> | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = }}
'''Margaret Jordan Patterson''' (1867–1950) was an American woodblock printmaker and painter.<ref name="vosegalleries.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.vosegalleries.com/artists/margaret-jordan-patterson|title=Vose Galleries - Margaret Jordan Patterson}}</ref>
== Early life and education == The daughter of a Maine sea captain, Patterson was born on board her father's ship near Surabaya, Java.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940|last=Hirshler|first=Erica E.|publisher=MFA Publications|year=2001|pages=188}}</ref> She then grew up in Boston and Maine.<ref name="vosegalleries.com" />
Her first art instruction came from a correspondence course given by the publisher Louis Prang.<ref name=":0" /> She then studied at the Pratt Institute starting in 1895.<ref name="si.edu">{{cite web|url=http://eyelevel.si.edu/2015/03/q-and-art-margaret-jordan-patterson.html|title=Eye Level: Q and Art: Margaret Jordan Patterson|work=Eye Level}}</ref><ref name="jlwcollection.com">{{cite web|url=http://jlwcollection.com/jlwcollection.com/Margaret_Patterson.html|title=Margaret Jordan Patterson (1867 - 1950) United States|access-date=2016-01-03|archive-date=2018-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120121050/http://jlwcollection.com/jlwcollection.com/Margaret_Patterson.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> She also studied with Claudio Castellucho in Florence and Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa in Paris.<ref name=":0" />
She also developed friendships with the artists Arthur Wesley Dow and Charles Woodbury.<ref name=":0" /> In 1910 she learned how to create color woodblock prints from Ethel Mars.<ref name=":0" />
== Career == She later became head of the art department at Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and held that job until she retired in 1940.<ref name="si.edu" /> She also worked as an art teacher in public schools in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.<ref name="jlwcollection.com" />
Some of her awards are honorable mention at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915, and a medal from the Philadelphia Watercolor Club in 1939.<ref name="jlwcollection.com" />
Her art is now held in the Cleveland Art Museum, the Oakland Art Museum,<ref name="jlwcollection.com" /> the Metropolitan Museum of Art,<ref name="The Metropolitan Museum of Art">{{cite web |title=Margaret Jordan Patterson |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?q=Margaret+Jordan+Patterson&sortBy=Relevance |website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=12 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref> The Minneapolis Institute of Art,<ref name="Minneapolis Institute of Art" /> the Museum of Fine Arts Boston,<ref name="Museum of Fine Arts Boston">{{cite web |title=Summer flowers |url=https://collections.mfa.org/objects/119256/summer-flowers |website=Museum of Fine Arts Boston |access-date=12 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref> the Princeton University Art Museum,<ref name="Princeton University Art Museum">{{cite web |title=The Mill at Rugen |url=https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/36607 |website=Princeton University Art Museum |access-date=12 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref> the Smithsonian American Art Museum,<ref name="Smithsonian American Art Museum">{{cite web |title=Margaret Jordan Patterson |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/margaret-jordan-patterson-3704 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=12 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref> and the Victoria and Albert Museum.<ref name="Victoria and Albert Museum">{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Patterson, Margaret Jordan|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?id_person=AUTH333178&page=1&page_size=15 |website=Victoria and Albert Museum |access-date=12 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery widths="200px" heights="200px"> A Salt Creek, Cape Cod.jpg|''A Salt Creek, Cape Cod'' Margaret Jordan Patterson - Heartsease.jpg|''Heartsease'' Margaret Jordan Patterson - Zinnias and Bachelor Buttons c.1920.jpg|''Zinnias and Bachelor Buttons'' Margaret Jordan Patterson - Windblown Trees c.1920.jpg|''Windblown Trees'' Margaret Jordan Patterson - Aunt Polly's Back Door SC188973.jpg|''Aunt Polly's Back Door'' </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *[https://www.tfaoi.com/aa/7aa/7aa4.htm Margaret J. Patterson: Master of Color and Light] *[https://www.tworedroses.com/newsletters/newsletter07052017.html Patterson's Petunias:The Making of a Color Woodcut] Two Red Roses Foundation
==External links== *{{Commons cat inline|Margaret Jordan Patterson}} {{Authority control}}
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