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Listen: The World ProgramHilton Leech's Amagansett Art School class of adult painters on the grounds of the Ringling Mansion in Sarasota, Florida.
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Date Note
Rights
Collection
N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 6
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Art teachers
Artists--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Landscape painting--Study and teaching
Plein air painting--Study and teaching
Painting--Study and teaching
Adult students--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Decorative arts
Graphic arts--Study and teaching
Personal Subjects
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
General Note
Leech taught at the Ringling School of Art from 1931-36 and again from 1939-1945. After the war he opened his own school in Sarasota, the Amagansett Art School at 1666 Hillview Street. The Hilton Leech house was later added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
Biographical Note
Joseph Janney Steinmetz was a world-renowned commercial photographer whose images appeared in such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Life, Look, Time, Holiday, Collier's, and Town & Country. His work has been referred to as "an American social history," which documented diverse scenes of American life from affluent northeasterners to middle-class Floridians. Steinmetz moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Sarasota, Florida in 1941.
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