Margaret Jordan Patterson

Margaret Jordan Patterson (1867-1950) was an American woodblock printmaker and painter.[1]

The daughter of a Maine sea captain, Patterson was born on board her father's ship near Surabaya, Java.[2] She then grew up in Boston and Maine.[1]

Her first art instruction came from a correspondence course given by the publisher Louis Prang.[2] She then studied at the Pratt Institute starting in 1895.[3][4] She also studied with Claudio Castellucho in Florence and Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa in Paris.[2] She also developed friendships with the artists Arthur Wesley Dow and Charles Woodbury.[2] In 1910 she learned how to create color woodblock prints from Ethel Mars.[2]

She later became head of the art department at Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and held that job until she retired in 1940.[3] She also worked as an art teacher in public schools in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.[4] 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.[4] Her art is now held in the Cleveland Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Oakland Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.[4]