By the turn of the century, it had become a true destination for American painters, led by the trio of Bellows, Rockwell Kent, and Robert Henri, who worked there together during Monhegan’s Golden Age from 1903 until around World War I, often in conjunction with other painters of different styles, from watercolors to impressionism to traditional naturalistic landscapes. Paris may have had La Belle Epoch but America had a bunch of guys on a cold, windswept rock painting seagulls.
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