The Cornish Colony

This guide provides resources related to the history of the White Mountains region of northern New Hampshire.

The Cornish Art Colony was a commune of artists, sculptors, writers, and other creators that congregated around the small town of Cornish, NH, from the 1880s through World War I. The colony centered around Augustus Saint-Gaudens, a prominent sculptor who created such iconic images as the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on the Boston Commons and the statue of Abraham Lincoln in Chicago's Lincoln Park. Some of the major collections connected with the Cornish Art Colony at Rauner are the Augustus Saint-Gaudens papers (ML-4), the MacKaye Family papers (ML-5), and the Maxfield Parrish papers (ML-62)