Fitzgerald Legacy

Visit the Rockwell Kent – James Fitzgerald House & Studio

HOURS

Saturdays, Tuesdays & Thursdays 12pm – 2pm

Suggested Donation $5

Advance reservations requested for groups

Celebrating the lives of two well-known artists

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.

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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.

In 2017 the first volume of the James Fitzgerald Catalogue Raisonne “James Fitzgerald: the Drawings and Sketches” was published. This 340-page volume includes over 750 images of the artist’s work.

In 2018 the Kent – Fitzgerald House and Studio was accepted into the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios Program. These buildings are one of just over 30 sites in the country to receive this designation, and only the second site in Maine.

The James Fitzgerald Legacy Advisory Board:
Dan Broeckelmann, Chair
Susan Danly
Edward Deci
Carol Stahl
Robert Stahl
Susan Strickler
Ellie Vuilleumier, Registrar (posthumous)

email:jamesfitzgerald@monheganmuseum.org