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Arthur Wesley Dow LbNA #49355

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Aug 1, 2009
Location:
City:Ipswich
County:Essex
State:Massachusetts
Boxes:1
Planted by:Nalyd
Found by: Judge Family
Last found:Jun 28, 2012
Status:FFaFFFFFFF
Last edited:Aug 1, 2009
Spring Street to the end goes to Daniel Boone Park on the Left and Dow park on the right. At the entrance of Dow is a marker with the artists name.

The fifteen acres that make up Dow Park were given to the Town by Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow was born in Ipswich in 1857 and moved with his parents to Spring Street in 1861. He started painting in his teens and after a period as an art student and painter in Boston and then in Europe, he returned to Ipswich in 1889.

In 1890 he purchased 11 acres at the top of Spring Street which he called Bayberry Hill and there he built his studio looking out over the marshes towards Plum Island and the sea beyond. In 1891 he founded the Ipswich Summer School of Art and for fifteen summers thereafter enrolled up to 200 students

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