Meet The Artists

  Lephe Holden, supervisor of art in Westport, Connecticut, and an instructor in art at the Bolton school in Westport, came to Key West in 1949. Holden exhibited widely in…

Joseph Hollenbeck was one of the first artists working in Palm Beach. Hollenbeck said he had been painting in Palm Beach, “since South County Road was a cow path.” Beginning…

  Victoria Hutson Huntley, born in New Jersey, grew up to become an artist renowned for her lithography. From the age of twelve through high school. she attended Saturday classes…

  In 1930, at the age of twenty, Eleanor King was one of the leading artists in Pensacola. While still a student at Pensacola High School she taught a class…

  Janet King was born in Regina, Canada; educated there, and in England. She came to St. Petersburg in 1915. King was head of the art department at St. Petersburg…

  Dorothy Leech, the wife of Sarasota artist Hilton Leech, was a well-known muralist, oil and watercolor painter. The Sarasota Herald, February 13, 1939 notes her work, “The watercolors of…

  Hilton Leech had an important influence on the development of art in Sarasota. He came to the city in 1931 to help organize the Ringling School of Art as one…

  In 1937 Anne Luke was a founding member of the Art League of Manatee County and  first president. At the first meeting of the League Luke said, “The essential…

  Ralph McKelvey was a successful insurance man representing Lloyds of London in New York City when the 1929 Wall Street crash forced him to leave the world of business…

  Katharine Merrill originally had a studio in New York City where she taught at the Art Students League and the New York Collegiate School for Girls. A talented painter…

  Alvin Meyer was a Chicago artist and sculptor who built a home on Fort Myers Beach in 1938. Trained at the American Academy in Rome, the Maryland Institute of…

Benson Bond Moore was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and lived there for seventy years until his retirement to Sarasota. A nationally known artist Moore’s etchings of birds were…