New-York tribune., 1907-08-11
IN ARTIST COLONY.
rorn;sh n. H.. H-here st. Gaudens
Had HIS Summer Home.

S-.ule5 over The hills Of New Hampshire. in
.,.a-o,,a- artistic disorder is little colony of
,-.icts and writers known as Cornish 1t in
-,,s.s the three townships OF Plainfield. Wind
- and Cornish and 2 fragment OF the settle
-.on- extends into Vermont but its inhabitants
.ln.,vs refer 10 il as Cornish, y. H" and thus
;. ,s known 10 the world al large. For more
.,,a, twenty years now this grouping of houses
ors hills and trees and celebrities has been
Gathering and multiplying since the late Angus
,us ST Gaudens. the pioneer Of this artistic ag-
,-.rsfio, purchased an old brick roadhouse not
FAR from Blow-Ae-Dowe Creek. and converted
ths mare into house whore, with his family. he
could retire from the world and its worries and
carry OF his work undisturbed- Here, too, far
from the rnadding crowd" in an atmosphere OF
rnosern antiquity, yet not dangerc lsly distant
from intellectual Boston, nor more than a days
ride from commercial New York, other artists
ss-,las me bv one until the colony became ceie-
t.tas for the artistic habits Of the settlers and
for its aversion TO the inrasions Of outsiders
twas not long after Mr. St Gaudens took up
his abode a. Cornish that his hrother-in-iaW'
n. Nichols. oF Boston. became enamoured OF the
rlaca and he too settled there Among their
friends the charm Of the village began TO spread
-,-;, o,ha- artists who visited them found the
s,-,s ri.,eahle atmosphere that they had oiscov-
.-.s .,s ma by one those who came 10 WISH
-s,,airad n build T. W. Dewing, the painter
.s ,rs11 as stephen and Maxfeld Parrish founo
the ran. TOO good TO leave. and they built houses
nbjch fitted into the landscape and settled GOWN
"a do thej- work there. Herbert Adams sculptor
Norman Hapgood, editor. and Charles A flal1
a-cbttec. also found the charm OF the NILS 100
r-sat to leave and they. too Joined the other seI
a Here winston Churchill wrote "CoHiston'
ossIiur largely with the country and the people
IN the immediate vicinity Of Cornish Interest
grew in the place as did the colony ITSELF until
to-6ar Il counts OF its census list some OF lhe
leading man and women Of American ART ana
Istte7s. kenyon and Louise Cox are there, Louis
ST C,audens. Henry 3. Fuller, Everett Shinn'
Percy Mackaye, Louis Evan ShipHan Rose
standisb Nichols Arthur Whiting. John bar
and others known through their pictures, prose
music
Yet they have not made their homes in Cornish
with tie idea of converting il into fashion-
able" summer resort, but rather 10 form there
an a-stoc-acy Of brains and to keep out that
element which displays its lack cf gray matter
by an expenditure Of money in undesirable ways
Il is to this end that each Of the residents mas
quietly settled down 20 his work amid the charm
ing Surroundings, after having built his dwelling
according % the example set by the pioneer MI
St Gxuders- As q result there is little that is
Osteutatious about these homes, each in its cop
piOe Of blooming shrubbery or its enclosure OF
trees displaying the good taste and effort at
simplicity that every one Of the Inhabitants has
sought
Il is In The gardens that effects have been