Eagle's Nest Art Colony photographs
name: label: Creator
content: Eagle's Nest Art Colony
label: Names
content: Browne, Charles Francis, 1859-1920
label: Names
content: Clarkson, Ralph, 1861-1942
label: Names
content: Grover, Oliver Dennett, 1861-1927
label: Names
content: Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1987 by the Taft Branch Library, Northern Illinois University, Oregon, Illinois.
creator: label: Creator
content: Eagle's Nest Art Colony
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Eagle's Nest Colony was established in 1897 as a summer home by a group of Chicago artists and writers led by Lorado Taft. Artists Ralph Clarkson, Nellie V. Walker, Charles Francis Browne, and Oliver Dennett Grover; writers Hamlin Garland and Henry Blake Fuller; poet Harriet Monroe, and architects Allen and Irving Pond were among the residents who shared 13 acres of forest on a Rock River bluff. The campers staged outdoor plays, lectured, and contributed paintings to exhibitions at the local library. Lorado Taft's "Black Hawk," a reinforced concrete sculpture, was a gift to the colony. Following Taft's death in 1936, their lease continued until the death of the last original signer, which was portrait artist Ralph Clarkson in 1942. The camp was acquired by Northern Illinois State Teachers College (now Northern Illinois University) in 1950.
function: label: Function
content: Artist colonies -- Illinois
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 37 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1897-1936]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.eaglnest
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4180 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in: Taft Branch Library and Northern Illinois Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Oregon, Illinois.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Black and white photographs copied from original lantern slides and photographs include portraits of many colonists, the interiors and exteriors of their cabins and group pictures of costumed campers in pageants and processions.