Fitzgerald Legacy

Visit the Rockwell Kent – James Fitzgerald House & Studio

James Fitzgerald – Rockwell Kent Historic Artists’ Home and Studio Hours:

June 15- September 30

Tuesdays & Thursdays: 1:00-3:00pm

Sundays: 11:00am – 3:00pm

The Rockwell Kent – James Fitzgerald Legacy becomes part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Historic Artists’ Homes & Studios Program. <read more…>

In 2004, longtime Monhegan summer resident Anne M. Hubert bequeathed to the museum her home and studio on Monhegan, along with the estate of James E. Fitzgerald. Anne and Edgar Hubert were friends and patrons to James Fitzgerald who, upon his death in 1971, inherited his artwork as well as his Monhegan home and studio.

Both buildings were designed and built by Rockwell Kent during the years 1906 to 1910 for his own use. The studio, built by Kent as an art school, was subsequently owned by his cousin, the painter Alice Kent Stoddard. James Fitzgerald acquired the studio in 1952 and the house in 1958. Both buildings, which are on the National Register of Historic Places, are now open to the public on a limited basis each week during the summer.

The Kent-Fitzgerald home is a historic house museum, and the studio is used to display paintings by James Fitzgerald from the museum’s collection.

In 2007, a symposium was held to honor the centenary of Kent’s building the house on Monhegan. Several of the papers from the symposium have been published in The Kent Collector, produced by the Rockwell Kent Archives at the SUNY Plattsburgh Art Museum.