Morgan Colt
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Morgan Colt,Bucks County Life, September, 1965 | | |
ARCHITECT, CRAFTSPERSON, PAINTER
BORN: September 11, 1876, Summit, New Jersey
DIED: June 12, 1926, New Hope, PA
Morgan Colt trained as an architect at Columbia University and practiced architecture in New York before coming to New Hope in 1912 to lead a more artistic life without the restrictions placed on his creativity by clients and builders. A friend of William Lathrop, Colt rented the former pig barn on the painter's property at Phillips Mill. Colt redesigned and added to the building to make a home and studio. He designed hand-crafted wood and iron furniture in a small rustic building which he called The Gothic Shop. Colt was influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement in which industrial manufacturing was rejected in favor of craftsmanship, especially medieval handicrafts. At the same time, Colt also practiced landscape painting. Along with Lathrop, Charles Rosen, Robert Spencer, Rae Sloan Bredin, Daniel Garber, they founded the New Hope Group of Painters for "mutual support and convenience." The Group exhibited together from 1916 and 1926. Colt produced relatively few paintings and today his work can be difficult to find.
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