Dixie Art Colony

Brochure of the Dixie Art Colony 1934

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. ^ a b c d e "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. ^ a b "Kelly Fitzpatrick". The Johnson Collection, LLC.
  6. ^ Harris, Mark. "Home". Dixie Art Colony Foundation.


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