Guide to Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios
Discover our award-winning and critically acclaimed publication! Featuring an introduction by Dr. Wanda M. Corn, Professor Emerita, Stanford University. Published in 2020 by Princeton Architectural Press and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, this marks the first book of its kind. It celebrates 44 preserved artists’ homes and studios across 5 distinct regions and 21 states in the nation. Collectively these sites represent the legacies of over 300 artists, spanning three centuries.
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“This highly anticipated guide presents an intriguing cross-section of creative spaces from New England to California, enticing us to travel—both virtually and physically—to the homes and studios that were carefully crafted reflections of the painters, sculptors, and designers who occupied them. With accessible text and handsome illustrations, [this guide] is a resource for all—from long-time preservationists to those experiencing the power and pleasure of artistic place for the first time.”
Thayer Tolles, Marica F. Vilcek Curator of American Paintings, and Sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
and President of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial, Cornish, NH
Art doesn’t happen by chance. Artists generate ideas, but they need space and time to develop these ideas. For visual artists, it all comes together in the studio, the place where that spark of inspiration catches fire. For most artists, the studio is more than one room set aside for work. It encompassed the whole environment where creativity is nurtured. This environment includes homes, gardens, and all the places where family and friends gather and interact. These homes and studios of artists were catalysts for creativity.
Twenty-five years ago, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, with lead support from the Henry Luce Foundation and the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, created the Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios (HAHS) network. In 2020, in celebration of its 20th anniversary, HAHS released its first-ever publication to feature its current 44 members—preserved artists’ homes and studios throughout the country—all of them open to the public.
From the desert vistas of Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexico ranch to Winslow Homer’s studio on the rocky, windswept coast of southern Maine, the homes and studios in the network are sites of extraordinary creativity. Guide to Historic Artists’ Homes & Studios is the first guidebook to the network, conveying each artist’s visual legacy and setting each site in the context of its architecture and landscape, which often were designed by the artists themselves.
Created with invaluable support from the Henry Luce Foundation and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, Guide to Historic Artists’ Homes & Studios is an invitation to discover the abundant riches these sites have to offer–whether you are an art connoisseur, seasoned traveler, or armchair explorer.
“Guide to Historic Artists’ Homes & Studios is the perfect book for art lovers dreaming of a post-pandemic journey across time and geography. In 44 succinct essays, generally four to six pages each, Balint informs our knowledge of some of the great American artists of the past two centuries, plus a few pleasant surprises.”
Charles Desmarais , San francisco chronicle
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Antiques and the Arts Weekly
Architectural Digest
Arkansas Democrat
Art and Object
Art and Architecture Quarterly
The Art Blog
In its January/February 2021 issue, The Magazine Antiques cited Guide to Artists’ Homes and Studios in its annual listing of notable museum catalogues and other books from the past year.
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