Dora Atwater Millikin at Wyndfield Studio

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Dora Atwater Millikin
Wyndfield Studio
P.O. Box 406
Westport Point, Massachusetts 02791
(508) 636-2280
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wyndfieldstudio.com

Education

 

   

 

 

2002-present

   

Lyme Art Association

 

 

   

Old Lyme, Connecticut

 

 

   

Open model sessions   

 

 

   

 

 

1998-2002

   

Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts

 

 

   

Old Lyme, Connecticut

 

 

   

Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting

 

 

   

 

 

1989-1990

   

Rhode Island School of Design 

 

 

   

Providence, Rhode Island

 

 

   

Continuing Education Department for Interior Design

 

 

   

 

 

1979-1983

   

Sophie Newcomb College

 

 

   

New Orleans, Louisiana

 

 

   

Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting, Drawing, Art History

 

 

   

 

 

1975-1979

   

Stoneleigh-Burnham School

 

 

   

Greenfield, Massachusetts

 

 

   

High School Diploma while focusing on Bronze Casting, Painting, and Silversmithing.

 

 

   

 

 

1968-1972

   

Little Compton, Rhode Island

 

 

   

Weekly private painting lessons from Doris Beatie

 

 

   

 

 

 

   

 

Awards and Fellowships

 

 

2010

   

Book Cover Award

 

 

   

Little Compton Historical Society, Little Compton, RI

 

 

   

"The History of Little Compton, First Light: Sakonnet 1660-1820", Janet Lisle Author

 

 

   

 

 

2010

   

First Place

 

 

   

Fidelity Investments, 12th Annual All Media Juried Exhibition, 'Extreme Scale'.

 

 

   

 

 

2008

   

Winsor and Newton Art Materials Award

 

 

   

Audubon Artists Open Juried Exhibition 2008, Salmagundi Club, NYC

 

 

   

 

 

2008

   

David Aldrich Award

 

 

   

The Little Compton Community Center, Little Compton, R.I.

 

 

   

 

 

2008

   

Pasquale Masiello Award

 

 

   

The Providence Art Club Open Painting Exhibition 2008

 

 

   

 

 

2007

   

Salmagundi Club Award

 

 

   

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual Juried Exhibition, National Arts Club, NYC.

 

 

   

 

 

2007

   

Allied Artists of America Award

 

 

   

30th Annual Juried Exhibition for Non-Members, The Salmagundi Club, NYC.

 

 

   

 

 

2007

   

Peoples Choice Award

 

 

   

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Member's Exhibition.

 

 

   

 

 

2007

   

First Place Award for Oil/Acrylic

 

 

   

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Member's Exhibition.

 

 

   

 

 

2006

   

Contemporary Art Award

 

 

   

Annual National Exhibition, Wind RiverValley Artist Guild, Dubois, WY.

 

 

   

 

 

2006

   

Peoples Choice Award

 

 

   

Newport Art Museum Annual Juried Exhibit, Newport, R.I.

 

 

   

 

 

2005

   

The Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 109th Annual Open Exhibition, National Arts Club, NYC. 

 

 

   

The Leila Gardin Sawyer Award for Two-Dimensional Work.

 

 

   

 

 

2005

   

The Little Compton Community Center Annual Juried Exhibition

 

 

   

Best in Show Award

 

 

   

 

 

2005

   

The Providence Art Club Award

 

 

   

Member's Exhibit "Urban Un Urban"

 

 

   

 

 

2005

   

Joseph Hartley Memorial Award for Oil, Best in Show

 

 

   

Annual Open Non-Members Juried Exhibition

 

 

   

Best in Show Salmagundi Club Center for American Art, NYC

 

 

   

 

 

2005

   

Peoples Choice Award

 

 

   

Newport Art Museum Annual Juried Exhibit, Newport, R.I.

 

 

   

 

 

2004

   

William E. Brigham Award

 

 

   

Winter Member's Exhibition

 

 

   

The Providence Art Club, Providence, R.I.

 

 

   

 

 

2004

   

The Butler Institute of American Art Award

 

 

   

The Allied Artists of America, Inc. National Arts Club, NYC

 

 

   

 

 

2004

   

Honorable Mention

 

 

   

Little Compton Community Center, Little Compton, R.I.

 

 

   

 

 

2003

   

David Aldrich Award-Best in Show

 

 

   

Providence Art Club Members Exhibition Providence, Rhode Island.

 

 

   

 

 

2002

   

Edwin Gould Foundation Award

 

 

   

National Arts Club Annual Student Exhibition Grammercy Park, NYC.

 

 

   

 

 

2002

   

John Stobart Fellowship

 

 

   

The John Stobart Foundation Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

   

 

 

 

   

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

 

2009

   

Walker-Cunningham Fine Art, "New Paintings", Boston, Massachusetts.

 

 

   

 

 

2009

   

Arnold Art Gallery, June 13th-July12th, "Newport and Beyond", Newport, R.I.

 

 

   

 

 

2008

   

Newport Art Museum, "Geometry of Place", June 7- August 10, 2008, Newport, R.I.

 

 

   

 

 

2007

   

Garvin Gallery, October 12th-November 25th,  "New Perspectives", Essex, Connecticut.

 

 

   

 

 

2007

   

Arnold Art Gallery, July 13th-July 30th,  "Dora Atwater -New Works", Newport, R.I.

 

 

   

 

 

2005

   

The Providence Art Club, September 18th-30th. "Dora Atwater Millikin", Providence, R.I.

 

 

   

 

Juried Exhibitions

 

 

2010

   

Fidelity Investments 12th Annual All Media Juried Exhibition, Extreme Scale Jurors: Diana Gaston, Associate Curator, Fidelity Investments; Beth Kantrowitz, Independent Curator, BK Projects: Meg White, Director, Gallery Naga

 

 

   

 

 

2010

   

Providence Art Club Open Painting Exhibition, Providence, R.I. Juror: Jeanne C. Potter, Director, The Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport.

 

 

   

 

 

2009

   

The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 113th Annual Open Juried Exhibition. Jurors: Wende Caporale, PSA, Antonio Masi, Alice W. Schwarz

 

 

   

 

 

2009

   

Allied Artists of America, Inc. 96th Annual Exhibition

Jurors: Gary T. Erbe, Evelyn Floret, Claudia Seymour, Thomas Valenti

 

 

   

 

 

2009

   

Newport Art Museum Annual Juried Members' Exhibition, Newport, R.I. Juror: Nick Capasso

 

 

   

 

 

2008

   

Providence Art Club Open National Exhibition Juror: Judith Tolnick Champa

 

 

   

 

 

2008

   

Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme Connecticut, Alumni Exhibition, Jurors: Randy Melick, Lisa Simonds, Dr. Eric M. Zafran

 

 

   

 

 

2008

   

Audubon Artists Open Juried Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, NYC Jurors: Louis Riccio, Raymond Olivere Award: Winsor & Newton Art Materials Award

 

 

   

 

 

2008

   

The Salmagundi Club 2008 Open Exhibition, NYC

 

2008

   

Providence Art Club Open Painting Exhibition, Providence, RI. Pasquale Masiello Award Juror: Nancy Grinnell

 

 

   

 

 

2008

   

The 16th Annual Associate Artist's Exhibition, the Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT.

 

 

   

 

 

2007

   

Allied Artists of America, Inc., Annual Juried Open Exhibition, The National Arts Club, NYC. 

 

 

   

 

 

2007

   

The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 111th Annual Open Juried Exhibition. Jurors: Dr Kevin Avery, Janet Fish, Colin Thomson. Award: The Salmagundi Club Award.

 

2007

   

Audubon Artists 65th Annual Juried Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, NYC. Jurors: Gary Erbe, David Benyon Pena.

 

 

   

 

 

2007

   

The Lyme Art Association, Cityscapes Exhibition and Sale

 

 

   

 

 

2007

   

Newport Art Museum Annual Juried Exhibition. Juror: Dr Micki McGee.

 

 

   

 

 

2007

   

Providence Art Club Open Juried Painting Exhibition, Jurors: Judith Tannenbaum, Richard Brown Baker.

 

 

   

 

 

2007

   

The Salmagundi Club, 30th Annual Juried Exhibition for non-members. Jurors: Richard C. Poink, Claudia Seymour, John Foote, Christina DeBarry, Rhoda Yanow, Lee Crogham, Eleanor Moore, Bernice Sokol Kramer.  Allied Artists of America Award.

         

 

2006

   

The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 110th Annual Open Exhibition, National Arts Club, NYC.

         

 

2006

   

Wind River Valley Art Guild Annual National Exhibition. Contemporary Art Award.

         

 

2006

   

Hera Gallery Juried Special Exhibition for the Art League of Rhode Island.

         

 

2006

   

The Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 110th Annual Open Exhibition, National Arts Club, NYC Jurors: Gabriela Dellosso, Diana De Santis, Lucille Berrill Paulsen,  Claudia Seymour, Rhoda Yanow, Holly Meeker Rom.

         

 

2006

   

Newport Art Museum Annual Juried Exhibition Jurors: Pamela Clark Cochrane, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, R.I. David Frazer, RISD Faculty- Peoples Choice Award.

         

 

2006

   

Providence Art Club, Open-Juried National Painting Exhibition Juror: Brian Shure, RISD Faculty.

         

 

2005

   

Allied Artists of America Inc., National Arts Club, NYC92nd Annual Exhibition 2005 Jurors:   Gabriela Dellosso, Ch., Babette Martino, Gilbert Riou

         

 

2005

   

The Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 109th Annual Open Exhibition, National Arts Club, NYC Jurors: Naomi Campbell, Dolores D'Achille, Gaile Snow Gibbs, Jeanette Koumjian, Ruth Rieber Award: Lilia Gardin Sawyer Award.

         

 

2005

   

The Salmagundi Club, 28th Annual Juried Exhibition for Non-Members Jurors: John Foote, Claudia Seymour, Christine DeBarry, RhodaYanow, Lee Croghen, Eleanor Moore, Bernice Sokol Kramer, S. Allyn Schaeffer, Joseph Hartley Memorial Award for Oil.

         

 

2005

   

The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA Juror: Paul Master Karnik

         

 

2005

   

Green Trees Gallery, Northfield, MA Jurors: Janice Starmer, Kerry Kazokas

         

 

2005

   

Newport Art Museum Annual Open Exhibition Jurors: Gretchen Keyworth, Robert Dilworth Peoples Choice Award

         

 

2004

   

The Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 108th Annual Open Exhibition, National Arts Club, NYC Jurors: Meredith d'Ambrosio, Kathy Fieramosca, Jeanette Martone, Diane Tomash, Eleni Traganas

         

 

2004

   

Allied Artists of America, Inc., National Arts Club, NYC Jurors: Radul Carranza, Michael Molnar, Shoichi Akutsu Butler Institute of American Art Award.

         

 

2004

   

Newport Art Museum Annual Open Exhibition Jurors: Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, The DeCordova Museum & Sculpture .

         

 

2004

   

Providence Art Club Nationwide Open Painting Exhibition Juror: Ruth Dealy, Rhode Island School of Design.

         

 

2003

   

Providence Art Club New England Exhibition Juror: Lisa A. Silagyi, Worcester Art Museum

         

 

2003

   

Newport Art Museum Annual Open Exhibition Juror: Christine McCarthy, Provincetown Art Association.

         

 

2002

   

The Copley Society of Boston Juried Student Exhibition Juror: Jeff Keough, Massachusetts College of Art.

         

 

2002

   

National Art Club Annual Student Exhibition, Grammercy Park, NYC Jurors: Raymond Everett Kinstler, Elena Barnet, Will Barnet, Bob Barra, Joan Bradt, Edith Rae Brown, Raoul A. Carranza, Louise Crawford, J.LeeDrexler, Dorothy Graham, Cheryl W. Green, Brown Hagood, Sidney Hermel, Eleanor Jacobs, John T. James, Diana Kan, Janet Lippmann, Edith Lourie, Takayo Noda, Mitchell D. Schorr, Wendy Schrijver, Sandy Straus, Jordan Zweifler.

         

 

2002

   

Newport Art Museum Annual Open Exhibition Juror: Judith Tannenbaum, R.I.S.D.

         

 

2002

   

Providence Art Club New England Exhibition Juror: Gretchen Dow Simpson.

         

 

2001

   

The Copley Society of Boston Juried Student Exhibition Juror: Bonnell Robinson, Director of Exhibitions at the Art Institute of  Boston.

         

 

1999

   

Providence Art Club Annual Open New England Exhibition Jurors: Stapleton Kearns, President of the Rockport Art Association.

         

 

1999

   

Lyme Academy of Fine Arts-Repainting the Past Jurors: Faculty, Jeff Becker, Curator of the Florence Griswold Museum.

         

 

1998

   

Westport Art Group, Founder's Award Jurors: Nancy Friese, Joan Backes, Susan Lichtman.

         

 

1998

   

Providence Art Club Annual Open New England Exhibition Juror: Tim Flowers, R.I.S.D.

         

 

1998

   

Newport Art Museum Annual Open Exhibition Jurror: Loraine Buckley.

 

 

   

 

 

 

   

 

Group Exhibitions

 

 

2010

   

The Broome Street Gallery, Catharine Lorilard Wolfe Art Club Annual Members Exhibition

         

 

2008

   

Office of United States Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Providence, R.I. ongoing

         

 

2008

   

Save the Bay, "Rhode Island Artists", June 9-27, 2008

         

 

2007

   

Providence Art Club, "The Art League of Rhode Island Annual All-Member Exhibition, September 9-28, 2007

         

 

2007

   

Gallery 297, "To Benefit the Environment", August 1-31, 2007

         

 

2007

   

Geary Gallery, "Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Members' Exhibition", July 12 August 11, 2007

         

 

2007

   

Courtyard Gallery, "Salmagundi Club of New York and Providence Art Club", March 25- May 2, 2007

         

 

2007

   

Providence Art Club, "Members' Exhibition 2007", February 25- March 16

         

 

2007

   

Save the Bay: "Land and Water", Save the Bay Center, Providence, R.I.

         

 

2007

   

The Broome Street Gallery, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual Members Exhibition. Awards: First Place Award for Oil/Acrylic, Peoples Choice Award.

         

 

2006

   

30th Anniversary Exhibition and Celebration for the Lyme Academy College of Fine Art.

         

 

2006

   

Arnold Art Invitational Exhibition

         

 

2006

   

Art League of Rhode Island 2005 Annual Member's Exhibition at the Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI

         

 

2005

   

Art League of Rhode Island, "The Journey: Generations of Rhode Island Masters 1890-2005", Imagine Fine Art, Smithfield, R.I.

         

 

2005

   

Art League of Rhode Island 2005 Annual Member's Exhibition at  Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA

         

 

2004

   

Providence Art Club with Gordon Parker & Johanna McKenzie

         

 

2004

   

Art League of Rhode Island 2003 Annual Member's Exhibition at A&C Fine Arts, East Greenwich, RI

         

 

2003

   

Providence Art Club Annual Members Exhibition Juror: Mark Freedman, David Aldrich Award-First Place

         

 

2003

   

Virginia Lynch Gallery "Close to Home", Group Exhibition

         

 

2003

   

Spring Bull Gallery with Johanna McKenzie and Nancy Gaucher-Thomas

         

 

2002

   

Providence Art Club with Gordon Parker and Johanna McKenzie

         

 

2001

   

Spring Bull Gallery with Johanna McKenzie and John McGowan

         

 

2000

   

Providence Art Club with Gordon Parker and Johanna McKenzie

 

 

   

 

 

 

   

 

Collections

 

   

 

 

Numerous private collections in the United States and in Europe

   

 

Save the Bay, Providence, R.I.

   

 

Brown, Lisle and Cummings, Providence, R.I.

   

 

Country & Coastal Properties, Little Compton, Rhode Island

   

 

The Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, Connecticut

   

 

National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Association, Inc. Dubois, Wyoming

   

 

The Newport Hospital, Newport, RI

   

 

The Meditech Collection, Westwood, Massachusetts

   

 

The Little Compton Historical Society, Little Compton, R.I.

   

 

Hebrew Senior Life, Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

   

 

 

 

   

 

Professional Affiliations

 

 

2009-present

   

Elected Artist Member of the Allied Artists of America Inc.

         

 

2009-present

   

Elected Artist Member of the Copley Society, Boston, MA

         

 

2008-present

   

Little Compton Historical Society, Little Compton, R.I., Board Member.

         

 

2008-present

   

South Coast Artists Inc., Board Member and Development Chair

         

 

2007-present

   

Portsmouth Art Guild Member

         

 

2006-present

   

Elected Artist Member of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club.

         

 

2005-2009

   

Tiverton Arts Council Board Member

         

 

2005-present

   

Shellfish Advisory Board, Westport, MA, Clerk

         

 

2004-2009

   

Historical Commission Regular Member, Westport Point, MA

 

2003-present

   

Wind River Valley Artists' Guild member of Dubois, Wyoming

         

 

2003-present

   

Elected artist of the Art League of Rhode Island, Exhibitions Committee Chair 2004-2007, Board member 2004-2008

         

 

2003-present

   

Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Alumni Association member, Class Representative

         

 

2002-present

   

Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Alumni Association member, Class Representative

         

 

2002-present

   

Lyme Art Association Associate member

         

 

2002-present

   

Spring Bull Gallery Member

         

 

2001-2002

   

Copley Society Student member

         

 

2000-2005

   

Concerts at the Point Board member, Westport Massachusetts

         

 

1997-present

   

Providence Art Club Artist member

         

 

1996-2002

   

Sakonnet Artists Cooperative member

         

 

1996-present

   

Newport Art Museum member

         

 

1985-1999

   

Little Compton Historical Society Board member

         

 

2008-present

   

Secretary 1985-1999, Little Compton, RI

         

 

2008-present

   

South Coast Artists Inc. Board Member and Clerk

 

 

   

 

 

 

   

 

Listings/Bibliography 

 

   

The Providence Journal, ART, Top-notch work in Newport Art Museum Members' show, by Bill Van Siclen, February 25, 2010, page D6.

 

Artscope, BEYOND THE BORDERS, "Dora Atwater Millikin: Geometry of Place" by Meredith Cutler,    July/August 2008.

 

The Daily News, LOCAL EVENTS: At the Museum, "Museum has it's finger on pulse of area artists" page A12. June 6, 2008.

 

The Providence Journal, ART, "Millikin Sheds Light on Familiar Territory", by Bill Van Siclen, July 24, 2008 page E1-5.

 

Tides, Save the Bay feature page 13.

 

Motif, ART SCENE, "Save the Bay Shows Art for a Cause" by Nicole Giambusso, June 10, 2008.

 

Valley Courier, ON EXHIBIT "Creating Modern Nostalgia with the Painter's Trinity" by Leah Lopez Schmalz, November 8, 2007.

 

The Providence Journal, ART, "Landscapes in many moods, from the surreal to the serene" by Bill Van Siclen, Thursday, March 15, 2007 page E3.

 

Gallery & Studio, "Catching Up With the CLWAC Members' Exhibition 2007 at The Broome Street Gallery" by J. Sanders Eaton, April/May 2007 page 10.

 

The Phoenix, "Land and Water-Striking images of Narragansett Bay at Save the Bay" by Bill Rodriguez, January 10, 2007.

 

Mercury, Off the Lip, "Employing the View" by Christa Albrecht-Vegas, July 11th-17th, 2007 pages 12-13.

 

The Providence Journal, LIVE, "Paintings talk amongst themselves" by Bill Van Siclen, January 26-29. 2006 page 15.

 

The Providence Journal, LIVE, "Newport artists dazzle at museum's annual juried show" by Bill Van Siclen, February 3-6, 2005.

 

The Providence Journal, LIVE, "In Newport Show, a tidal wave of water scenes" by Bill Van Siclen, February 26, 2004.

 

Westport Shorelines, WESTPORT WATCH, Meet Dora Atwater Millikin "Westport, through an artist's eye", December 4, 2003 page 3.

 

Westport Shorelines, "Mondays are for painting" October 2, 2003 pages 1,16.

 

Cable TV The Devil's Pocket, interviewed by: Emery Robinson and Brenda Burke, August 2003.

 

Westport Shorelines, "Devoted trio breathe life into'Devil's Pocket' " by Peggy Aulisio, August 28, 2003 pages 1,5.

 

The Sakonnet Times, "Mondays are for painting" August 14, 2003 pages 1,4.

 

The Providence Journal, LIVE, "At Virginia Lynch" by Bill Van Siclen, March 20-23, 2003 page 12.

 

The Providence Journal, LIVE, "Stonington Vineyards Gallery" January 9-12, 2003 page 14.

 

Mystic River Press, "Exhibit offers previews of upcoming artists" January 2, 2003, page 18.

 

The Pictorial Gazette, "Lyme Academy shows off student projects" Tuesday, April 18, 2002.

 

The Pictorial Gazette, "Academy students bring home national awards" by Peter Vigue. Tuesday, March 26, 2002 page 22.

 

 

   

 

 

 

   

 

Teaching Experience

 

 

2010

   

The Providence Art Club, All Day Tuesday Model Sessions

         

 

2009

   

The Providence Art Club, "Painting with Dora Atwater Millikin", September-      December.

         

 

2009

   

The Providence Art Club, "Three Approaches to Oil, Instructors: Harley Bartlett, James Kubiatowicz, Dora Atwater Millikin

         

 

2008

   

The Newport Art Museum, "Dora Atwater Millikin: Interpreting the Cityscape in Paint", Workshop, September 19-21

 

 

   

 

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