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The Eagle's Nest Art Colony, the site known in more modern times as the Lorado Taft Field Campus, was founded in 1898 by American sculptor Lorado Taft on the bluffs flanking the east bank of the Rock River, overlooking Oregon, Illinois. The colony was populated by Chicago artists, all members of the Chicago Art Institute or the University of Chicago art department, who gathered in Ogle County to escape the summer heat of Chicago. The colony complex has been used as a field campus for Northern Illinois University since of Lowden State Park were turned over to the university by the state of Illinois.〔 ==History== The Eagle's Nest Art Colony Association was founded in 1898 by American sculptor Lorado Taft on the bluffs flanking the east bank of the Rock River, overlooking Oregon, Illinois.〔(Lorado Taft Campus ), NIU Historical Buildings: Lorado Taft Field Campus Historical Significance, ''Northern Illinois University''. Retrieved 5 November 2007.〕 The colony was populated by Chicago artists, all members of the Chicago Art Institute or the University of Chicago art department, who gathered in Ogle County to escape the summer heat of Chicago.〔 The colony was started by eleven men, all artists, architects and art lovers affiliated with Taft in Chicago. The original members were: Taft, Ralph Clarkson, Oliver Dennett Grover, Charles Francis Browne, Henry B. Fuller, Hamlin Garland, Horace Spencer Fiske, James Spencer Dickerson, Allen Bartlit Pond, Irving Kane Pond and Clarence Dickerson.〔 The original members first lived in tents at the colony, later, after the association's constitution was written, charter and regular members were allowed to build summer homes.〔 The group began their search for a summer reprieve from Chicago a few years before the site along the Rock River was chosen. Their first colony, at Bass Lake, Indiana, ended after a malaria outbreak.〔 As the colony founders searched for a home for their colony Chicago attorney and patron of the arts Wallace Heckman purchased the land that would eventually become the Eagle's Nest Colony in 1898.〔"(Lowden State Park )," ''Illinois Department of Natural Resources'', official site. Retrieved 5 November 2007.〕 Taft and his peers looked toward Wisconsin after leaving Bass Lake, but Heckman invited the group to his home in Ogle County for the Fourth of July. Heckman offered to let the group set up camp there and they signed a lease for the site the same week. The lease provided of land for US$1 per year with the stipulation that each colony member give a free lecture or demonstration in the area.〔〔"(The Founding of the Association and the Camp )," NIU Historical Buildings: Lorado Taft Field Campus Historical Significance, ''Northern Illinois University''. Retrieved 5 November 2007.〕 Other famous writers and artists who visited the colony include: James H. Breasted, Charles R. Crane, I.K. Friedman, George Barr McCutcheon, John T. McCutcheon, Harriet Monroe, William Vaughn Moody, Elia Peattie, Lucy Fitch Perkins, Bert Leston Taylor, Nellie Walker, and Donald Peattie.〔''Old Illinois Houses'' by John Drury, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1977, page 204〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eagle's Nest Art Colony」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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