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Robert Lambdin once said that when he moved to Westport in 1918 there were twenty or so artists living here. In 1924, a local headline proclaimed, "Westport is Truly Getting to Be the Home of Many Famous Artists." By 1934, the count - as proclaimed in a special edition of another local newspaper - was seventy-eight painters, sculptors, etchers and designers, "including many of international fame." Another half dozen or so lived in Weston. In the 1940's the renown of the local colony was such that the dynamic Albert Dorne decided that Westport was the place to locate his art correspondence school, and that the name to give the school was "Famous Artists." The movement of artists to Westport and Weston had reached flood stage. And still they came, and continue to come. Continue reading from A Community of Artists, 9-10.
