With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Fred Stewart Greene
Education/Curation, Painting/Drawing, Photography
1876 – 1946
Regionally significant in southeastern Connecticut and Rhode Island, and noted for his photography using dry-plate field cameras, with which he documented the built and natural environment during the first decades of the 20th century.
- Biography/Description of Work
A commercial artist and photographer who ran a studio and art school in North Stonington, Fred Steward Greene lived variously in North Stonington, CT, where he had been born and nearby Westerly, RI. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Metropolitan School of Art and at the Art Students League in NYC. With his mother, Harriet, a professional artist, Greene opened “Hollie Studio” in Westerly where they offered commercial and fine art services, including classes. He painted in oil and watercolor and specialized in landscapes working in an Impressionist style. He taught at the New England School of Design in New London, Connecticut and was a member of the Noank [Connecticut] Sketching Club, as well as the Westerly Art Club. Greene exhibited at the Mystic Art Association and at World’s Fair exhibitions of 1909, 1933 and 1939.In 1911 Greene purchased the house in North Stonington, which he called Greene Gables and in which he worked for over a decade. By the mid-1920s though he had returned to Westerly to open another Hollie Studio with his mother. In his later years, he wintered in Florida and spent summers at family property in North Stonington.
- Sources view
- Goodman, Tobias M. Out of the Attic: Images of Fred Stewart Greene. Asphodel Press, Wakefield RI, 2014.
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