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Woodstock artists’ work on display at Trenton City Museum

By Janet Purcell/For The Times of Trenton 
on October 18, 2013 at 6:14 AM, updated October 18, 2013 at 6:19 AM

For many of us, just the mention of Woodstock conjures up images of the “peace, love, music” Woodstock Festival that happened in August 1969. But the little village in the Catskill Mountains Forest Preserve 100 miles north of New York City had a rich history long before the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin came on the scene.

As early as 1903, artists associated with the Art Students League in New York traveled to the region for the league’s summer program. Finding the light and the terrain amenable to plein air painting, some stayed, and others returned later.

In the early 1900s they formed the Woodstock Artists Association, one of the oldest organizations of its kind. The organization is still going strong today.

With special thanks to longtime Trenton Museum Society supporters Ted Boyer and Jane Rohlf and Bob and Alison Boyer Eriksen, we can all now enjoy at Ellarslie 50 paintings that came out of that group of artists in the first half of the 20th century.