1922Artists Charles Allen and Alice Beach Winter settled in East Gloucester.Arts and Culture, Art
The Winters made their first summer visit to Cape Ann in 1910 and by 1922 they owned a home and a studio on Mount Pleasant Avenue in East Gloucester, which they made their year-round home in 1931. Two of the few politically left-wing artists to live year-round in Gloucester, they served the community as painters and teachers. They were both socialists; Alice was an active suffragette and Charles was one of her campaign workers. Though they worked for mainstream publications to earn a living, they were both idealists. Some of Charles Winter’s murals are preserved within City Hall.
Curtis, Judith, Rocky Neck Art Colony: 1850-1950, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester, MA, A Finding Aid to the Charles Allan and Alice Beach Winter Papers, circa 1890-1949 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/charles-allan-and-alice-beach-winter-papers-9382. Accessed 11 Aug. 2023.