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Art Center Sarasota
Art Center Sarasota is the community art center in Sarasota, Florida. The Center includes four rotating exhibition galleries and a sculpture garden. It is member-funded and offers adult and youth classes, workshops, and programs. The Center was established in 1926 as the Sarasota Art Association. History The Sarasota Art Association (SAA) was established in 1926 as the first arts organization in Sarasota. Founder Marcia Rader, Art Supervisor of the Sarasota School System, was the driving force behind the initial meetings of local art supporters who formed the association. The first official meeting of the SAA took place on a Friday evening in February of 1932. Also in 1932, the Sarasota Art Association along with the Daytona Beach Art league, became a member of the Florida Federation of Art, a state-wide arts organization that promoted the arts across Florida, through the fellowship of independent artists, museums, and other cultural institutions. In 1941, the Association incor ...
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Sarasota Art Association And Gold Blossom Tree - Sarasota, Florida
Sarasota () is a city in Sarasota County on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The area is renowned for its cultural and environmental amenities, beaches, resorts, and the Sarasota School of Architecture. The city is located in the southern end of the Greater Tampa Bay Area and north of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda. Its official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Sarasota is a principal city of the Sarasota metropolitan area, and is the seat of Sarasota County. According to the 2020 U.S. census, Sarasota had a population of 54,842. The Sarasota city limits contain several keys, including Lido Key, St. Armands Key, Otter Key, Casey Key, Coon Key, Bird Key, and portions of Siesta Key. Longboat Key is the largest key separating the bay from the gulf, but it was evenly divided by the new county line of 1921. The portion of the key that parallels the Sarasota city boundary that extends to that new county line ...
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Sarasota, Florida
Sarasota () is a city in Sarasota County on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The area is renowned for its cultural and environmental amenities, beaches, resorts, and the Sarasota School of Architecture. The city is located in the southern end of the Greater Tampa Bay Area and north of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda. Its official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Sarasota is a principal city of the Sarasota metropolitan area, and is the seat of Sarasota County. According to the 2020 U.S. census, Sarasota had a population of 54,842. The Sarasota city limits contain several keys, including Lido Key, St. Armands Key, Otter Key, Casey Key, Coon Key, Bird Key, and portions of Siesta Key. Longboat Key is the largest key separating the bay from the gulf, but it was evenly divided by the new county line of 1921. The portion of the key that parallels the Sarasota city boundary that extends to that new county line alon ...
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Jerry Farnsworth
Jerry Farnsworth (1895–1983) was an American artist. He was born in Dalton, Georgia and studied at the Corcoran School of Art under Charles W. Hawthorne. During 1942 and 1943 he was the Artist-in-Residence at the University of Illinois. Farnsworth also worked in a soda dispensing drug store, as a Fuller Brush Man, as a Western Union messenger boy, and in a cotton mill and steel mill. Farnsworth's awards include six from the National Academy of Design (1941), one from the National Arts Club (1941), one from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1945) and one from Grand Central Galleries (1928). Farnsworth belonged to the National Arts Club, an Academician of the National Academy of Design, the Salmagundi Club, Washington Society of Art and the Provincetown Art Association. Painter Helen Alton Sawyer was his wife and they operated a summer art school in Truro, Massachusetts. They wintered in Sarasota, Florida. His work was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, ...
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Elden Rowland
Elden Heart Rowland (May 31, 1915 – February 22, 1982) was an artist in Sarasota, Florida.photograph by Joseph Janney Steinmetz
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His wife, Katherine Rowland, wrote ''A Painter and His Wife: A Memoir: Elden Rowland, Painter, Katherine Rowland, Wife'' about their life in the arts in Sarasota, and . It is illustrated with 50 pictures. They moved from Ohio to Florida. Rowland was born May 31, 1915, in

Syd Solomon
Syd Solomon (July 12, 1917 – January 28, 2004) was an American abstract artist. He spent most of his time in his homes in both East Hampton, NY and Sarasota, Florida, which influenced many of his paintings. His works have been presented at The Guggenheim, The Whitney, Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Wadsworth Athenaeum and several others. Early life Solomon was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, to a Jewish family. He started painting in high school. After high school, he studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1935 to 1938. In 1940, he enlisted in the Engineer Aviation Regiment, First Camouflage Battalion of the military. During this time, Solomon helped design camouflage for the California coast near the San Francisco area. Later he was assigned to the Royal Engineer Camouflage Corps in London, where he designed camouflage to be used against the Germans in World War II. He went on to earn the Bronze star for his contributions during the Battle of the Bulge. During his ...
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Hilton Leech
The Hilton Leech House and Amagansett Art School is a historic school in Sarasota, Florida. Named for artist Hilton Leech (Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1906 - Died in Virginia City, Montana 1969), it is located at 1666 Hillview Street. On June 22, 1995, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Leech taught painting at the Ringling School of Art from 1931 until 1936 and again from 1939 until 1945. After World War II he opened his own school the Amagansett Art School at 1666 Hillview Street in Sarasota. Leech painted watercolor murals at the Joel W. Solomon Federal Building and United States Courthouse, a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The mural is titled ''Allegory of Chattanooga'' (1937). He also painted ''Removal of the County Seat from Daphne to Bay Minette'' (1939) at the U.S. Post Office in Bay Minette, Alabama Bay Minette is a city in and the county seat of Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. As of the 201 ...
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Sarasota School Of Architecture
The Sarasota School of Architecture, sometimes called Sarasota Modern, is a regional style of post-war modern architecture (1941–1966) that emerged on Florida's Central West Coast, in and around the city of Sarasota, Florida. It is characterized by open-plan structures, often with large planes of glass to facilitate natural illumination and ventilation, that address the unique indigenous requirements of the regional climate. Many of the architects who pioneered this style became world-renowned later in their careers, and several significant buildings remain in Sarasota today. Building the foundation Several factors gave rise to the Sarasota School of Architecture: the post-World War II residential building boom, the development of new construction technologies, the evolution of new architectural concepts, and the emergence of a new generation of architects willing to create ground-breaking and forward-thinking designs. Ralph Twitchell is largely recognized as the founder of t ...
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George David Yater
George David Yater (November 30, 1910 – April 15, 1993) was an Indiana-born painter associated with the Cape Cod School of Art, and most well known for his watercolors. Family life George David Yater was born to James Yater and Flora May Price Yater on November 30, 1910, in Madison, Indiana. One of four children, his father was an electrician. He married Shirley Pell in 1939. The couple had one son, David Pell Yater, born 1942, and one daughter, Marjorie Ellen Yater, born 1948. He is buried, alongside his wife, in the Snow Cemetery, in Truro, Massachusetts. Art career Yater graduated in 1928 from Madison High School, in Madison, Indiana, and received a scholarship to attend the John Herron Art School in Indianapolis, Indiana. He remained there four years and studied with William Forsythe. At the John Herron Art School, Yater receive a $150 scholarship for winter studies in 1930. From 1931 through 1934, Yater studied each summer at the Cape School of Art with Henry H ...
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Cape Cod School Of Art
The Cape Cod School of Art, also known as Hawthorne School of Art, was the first outdoor school of figure painting in America; it was started by Charles Webster Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts Provincetown is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, in the United States. A small coastal resort town with a year-round population of 3,664 as of the 2020 United States Census, Provincet ..., in 1898. The Hawthorne Class Studio building off Miller Hill Road is on the List of Nationally Registered Historic Places. Notable students References External linksSeveral Charles Webster Hawthorne exhibition catalogsfrom The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF) Art schools in Massachusetts Education in Barnstable County, Massachusetts School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Educational institutions established in 1898 Provincetown, Massachusetts B ...
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Buildings And Structures In Sarasota, Florida
A building, or edifice, is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory (although there's also portable buildings). Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the term ''building'' compare the list of nonbuilding structures. Buildings serve several societal needs – primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) and the ''outside'' (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful). Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become objects or canvasses of much artistic ...
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Arts Centers In Florida
The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both highly dynamic and a characteristically constant feature of human life, they have developed into innovative, stylized and sometimes intricate forms. This is often achieved through sustained and deliberate study, training and/or theorizing within a particular tradition, across generations and even between civilizations. The arts are a vehicle through which human beings cultivate distinct social, cultural and individual identities, while transmitting values, impressions, judgments, ideas, visions, spiritual meanings, patterns of life and experiences across time and space. Prominent examples of the arts include: * visual arts (including architecture, ceramics, drawing, filmmaking, painting, photography, and sculpting), * literary arts (includin ...
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Tourist Attractions In Sarasota County, Florida
Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring (other), touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tour (other), tours. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure and not less than 24 hours, business and other purposes". Tourism can be Domestic tourism, domestic (within the traveller's own country) or International tourism, international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments. Tourism numbers declined as a result of a strong economic slowdown (the late-2000s recession) between the second half of 2008 and the end of 2009, and in consequence of t ...
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