The Rockwell Kent – James Fitzgerald Legacy becomes part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Historic Artist’s Homes & Studios Program

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.

Please visit the website of the Fitzgerald Legacy : JamesFitzgerald.org

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 Artist’s 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.

In 2022 the second volume of the James Fitzgerald Catalogue Raisonne “James Fitzgerald: the Watercolors” was published. This 340-page volume features an in-depth study of the artist’s creative output in watercolor along with more than 400 full-color reproductions of his work.