Morgan Colt (September 11, 1876 - June 12, 1926) was an architect, a craftsman of traditional furniture and an impressionist painter. Much of his work has been destroyed.
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Life
Morgan Colt was born in Summit, New Jersey, on September 11, 1876. He attended Columbia University and qualified as an architect. He practiced this profession in New York City.
In 1912 Colt moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania, so he could dedicate his time to art. He built a houseboat, Deewaydin , which means staying with him with his wife in the Delaware Canal. It was not practical. They moved into the house for a while. He then hired a barn that had placed a pig on his friend's ranch, William Langson Lathrop at Phillips Mill, and turned it into a home and studio. The house was given a Tudor style.
Morgan then began building his "Little English Village" (which he had written on deed for his property).
The small English village of Colt consists of seven English huts with various British architectural styles. Colt built an English Gate hut connected to a large Medieval iron gate in front of his property and where all the residents of New Hope could see when they passed Phillips Mill.
Then move backwards to Colt, the small English village of Colt, building a British carriage house. Back through another set of iron gates again, Colt later built a Gothic-style artist studio (where he painted), Colt and his wife had found an old English monastery that was destroyed and unpacked all the wood Gothic scrolls and took this mold. interior of the ancient buildings and send them back to New Hope, drag them to the canal and to their current location in the Gothic Colts studio. across from the Colt it builds its Gothic Forge iron (where he makes all the iron furniture and other iron items), then walks the village road that Colt is built from cast concrete, Colt builds a Tudor-style wooden furniture shop where he makes all her beautiful wooden furniture and crate all carved with English Gothic tracery.
In addition to Colt paintings, many of the furniture and wooden chests are in the Museum and private collections as well. and directly opposite a woodworking shop, Colt built Norman's most beautiful French-style cabin that he used as his dog cage. All through Colt's Little English village You can see beautiful carved English wood carvings in all the cottages and the main house. The entire Colt property is a work of art and must be preserved and protected.
Colt is influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement, and designs and makes wood and iron furniture using traditional techniques. He also practiced landscapes. In 1916, Colt, Lathrop, Rae Sloan Bredin, Charles Rosen, Daniel Garber, and Robert Spencer formed The New Hope Group to organize their exhibition of works. Colt added more buildings to his property in 1919 which he called the Gothic Shop, and where he showed off his furniture and metal.
Morgan Colt died in New Hope, Pennsylvania, on June 12, 1926. He was forty-nine years old.
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Working
Colt is better known as a craftsman than a painter. She specializes in hand-wrought iron garden furniture and flame screens. He performed exhibitions with the New Hope Group in 1916-17 at the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Detroit Art Institute, the Corcoran Gallery, the Carnegie Institute, and the Arlington Gallery in New York City. His paintings Canal Boat are praised for their quality. Many are missing. After his death, the buyer of his property destroyed most of the paintings he found there, without understanding what they deserved.
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