1923Artist Samuel Hershey (1904-1987) vacationed in Rockport and returned the following year.Arts and Culture, Art

Gloucester Daily Times. “Hotel Arrivals.” July 13, 1923, Vol. 59 No. 10421 edition, sec. Rockport Daily News. https://sawyer.advantage-preservation.com/.
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Hershey returned to study with Lester Stevens and Aldro T. Hibbard in 1924. Soon he was teaching and established the Sandy Bay Art School with Rockport artist, Stanley Woodward (1890-1970). Hershey also taught at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and, after serving in World War II, at the Rhode Island School of Design. He served as president of the Rockport Art Association from 1947 until 1951

Oaks, Martha, and Cape Ann Historical Museum, editors. Ars Longa, Vita Brevis: Rockport Artists in the 1930s: July 10 through October 16, 2010: Cape Ann Museum. Cape Ann Museum, 2010.

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