New Rochelle artist colony

The New Rochelle artist colony was a community of artists, actors, musicians, playwrights and writers who settled in the city of New Rochelle, New York, during the early twentieth century. By the 1920s, New Rochelle had more artists per capita than almost any city in the United States, and newspaper headlines were referring to the community as "Greenwich Village without the Greenwich."

The colony included the dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle, actor Francis Wilson, writer Augustus Thomas, and artists Robert I. Aitken, Edward Kemble, Rufus Zogbaum, Alton Tobey, and Julian Hawthorne. Some affiliated artists included Ellen Emmet Rand, Montague Castle, H. R. Stanton, F. Tolles Chamberlain, Alonzo Klaw, Herman Lambden, Sophie Schuyler Day, Martha B. Bintiff, and A. Phimister Proctor.