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Article: Artists gather to mark anniversary of MacDowell Colony.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- October 4, 2007
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Byline: Elaine Weiss Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
New York -- Creative artists are a famously free-spirited bunch, a bit unruly, a tad cynical, not inclined to obey commands or gladly queue-up in orderly fashion. But last weekend, in New York's Central Park, nearly 500 talented and temperamental artists happily arranged themselves into (almost) neat rows and, when told to, willingly smiled for the camera to produce a historic photograph.
It took a large-format camera and a wide-angle lens to capture this largest-ever gathering of the Fellows of the MacDowell Colony, the artists' retreat set in the woods of New Hampshire, which is ...